November 9-23, 2014. “Lazeti”. Adjara Public Broadcasting Television. From Gia Diasamidze’s program cycle “Journey into Folklore”. Director Gia Diasamidze. Interviewer and consultant Giorgi Kraveishvili. See links:
Part one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KkDTTuAjyk
Part two https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2VriGm6CY8
Part three https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMNm1nFf9TA
January 18-25, 2015. “Imerkhevi”. Adjara Public Broadcasting Television. From Gia Diasamidze’s program cycle “Journey into Folklore”. Director Gia Diasamidze. Interviewer and consultant Giorgi Kraveishvili. See links:
Part one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs2dfpriCxM
Part two https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObL88mkRtmg
2015. Author of articles about the musical folklore of Lazeti, Shavsheti, Tao, Klarjeti and Hereti in the book “Encyclopedic Dictionary of Georgian Music” published by Mzia Japaridze and Rusudan Kutateladze.
2016. Together with Sopho Kotrikadze, he is an assistant in the Georgian-English book “Folklore Ensembles” published by the National Folklore Foundation. From the series “Treasures of Georgian Folklore” (project author Giorgi Ushikishvili). The book is accompanied by six DVDs.
2018. The songs recorded by Peter Gold and Akhmed Melashvili are transcribed into musical notation in the joint publication of the International Center for the Study of Traditional Polyphony and the Georgian Chant Foundation, “Georgian Polyphony in Western Turkey: On the Footsteps of Peter Gold”.
2018. Ingiluri, Taouri, Lazuri Klarjuli and Shavshuri songs recorded by Giorgi are included in the three-disc edition “Discover Georgian Through Traditional Music” prepared by Natalia Zumbadze and Ketevan Matiashvili. Publisher: Tbilisi Vano Sarajishvili State Conservatory.
2019 Co-author of articles and an appendix on Hereti, Lazeti, Shavsheti, Tao, Klarjeti in the joint publication of the International Center for Georgian Folk Song (head Anzor Erkomaishvili) and the American publishing house Nova Science Publishers “G E O R G I A. History – Culture – Ethnography; vol. II-III”.
October 2021. With his help, Irina Khangoshvili shot the Russian-language film “Lazy. Divided People” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzqtvqZ83pk&t=699s
Lectures read:
11-12.05.2019 Adjara A.R. Student Youth Palace. “Musical Folklore of South-Western Georgia”. The topic of the lecture is Adjarian, Lazuri, Shavshuri, Taouri and Klarjeti music. The lecture was funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of the Adjara Autonomous Republic.
24.01.2022. Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. “The Problem of Cultural Education and the Propagation of Wrong Cultural Priorities”. The topic of the lecture is the problem of forming harmonious and developed youth.
Grants obtained:
2013-2014 “Grant Competition for Doctoral Educational Programs” announced by the Shota Rustaveli National Mentoring Foundation of Georgia. The project name is “Musical Folklore of Georgians Living in Turkey”.
Competition “Your Folklore Idea” announced by the State Folklore Center of Georgia in 2019. The project name is “Fixing the Patterns of Megrelian Nani, Datribe, Zari and Children’s Sayings”.
The “Publication State Scientific Grants Competition” announced by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia in 2019. The project title is “Problems of studying the folk music of the isolated corners of Georgia and the Georgians exiled in the 17th-19th centuries”.
The “Grant Competition for Fundamental Research” announced by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia in 2021. The project title is “Musical and Choreographic Folklore of Georgians and Abkhazians Living in Turkey, Iran and Azerbaijan”.
