Zurab Sotkilava

Zurab Lavrentievich Sotkilava (Russian: Зураб Лаврентьевич Соткилава, Georgian: ზურაბ სოტკილავა; 12 March 1937 – 18 September 2017) was a Georgian operatic tenor and People's Artist of the USSR recipient.

In this Eastern Slavic name, the patronymic is Lavrentievich and the family name is Sotkilava.
Zurab Sotkilava

ზურაბ სოტკილავა
Born
Zurab Lavrentievich Sotkilava

(1937-03-12)12 March 1937
Sukhumi, Georgian SSR
Died18 September 2017(2017-09-18) (aged 80)
Moscow, Russian Federation
Occupation
Association football career
Full name Zurab Lavrentievich Sotkilava[1]
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1951–1955 Dinamo Sukhumi
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1955 Dinamo Tbilisi 2 (0)
1956 FShM Tbilisi
1958–1959 Dinamo Tbilisi 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Biography

Education

In 1960, Sotkilava graduated from the Tbilisi State Polytechnical Institute.

Football career

Sotkilava began playing association football during childhood. At age 16, he joined Dynamo Sukhumi where he played full-back. In 1956 he became captain of the Georgia national team, and two years later he joined Dynamo Tbilisi.[2] In 1958 he incurred severe injuries while playing in Yugoslavia. This ultimately led to the end of his sports career in Czechoslovakia the following year.[3]

Music career

In 1965 he graduated from the Tbilisi Conservatory under the guidance of David Andguladze. Between 1965 and 1974 Sotkilava was a soloist of the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre (named after Zakaria Paliashvili). From 1966 to 1968 he was a student at La Scala where his teacher was Dinaro Barra. He later became a teacher at the Moscow Conservatory where he remained until 1988. After six years he became chairman of the International Tchaikovsky Competition and was a member of the Bologna Academy of Music, at which point he became known for his singing of Giuseppe Verdi's works.

By 2000, he became Kinoshok chairman of Anapa Film Festival which was hosted throughout the CIS and Baltic States.[4]

In 2015, he was diagnosed with a malignant pancreatic tumor; he died in 2017, at age 80,[5] and was survived by his wife, Eliso Turmanidze, and his two daughters.

Roles at the Bolshoi Theatre

Awards

References
  1. Profile at Footballfacts.ru (in Russian)
  2. Зураб Лаврентьевич Соткилава / Zurab Sotkilava profile, peoples.ru; accessed 19 September 2017.
  3. "Биография Зураба Соткилавы". РИА Новости. 2017-03-12. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
  4. "Zurab Sotkilava". Bolshoi Theatre. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
  5. Оперный певец Зураб Соткилава признался, что тяжело болен раком, lifenews.ru; accessed 19 September 2017.(in Russian)
  6. Биография Зураба Соткилавы, peoples.ru; accessed 19 September 2017.(in Russian)
  7. Московская государственная консерватория им. П. И. Чайковского — Педагоги — Соткилава Зураб Лаврентьевич
  8. Presidential Decree dated 3 December 2007, № 1626
  9. Указ Президента РФ от 22 марта 2001 г. № 325, kremlin.ru; accessed 19 September 2017.(in Russian)
  10. Биографии вокалистов
  11. Распоряжение Президента РФ от 27 октября 2012 г. № 486-рп, pravo.gov.ru; accessed 19 September 2017.(in Russian)
  12. Состав академии: Зураб Лаврентьевич Соткилава, independent-academy.net; accessed 19 September 2017.(in Russian)
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