Levan Andria

Cello

Levan Andria, born in Filderstadt in 1996, has been studying cello with Prof. Conradin Brotbek at the ‘Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst’ Stuttgart since the age of 15, first as a preliminary student and then as a student until 2020. He is a multiple prizewinner of the ‘Jugend musiziert’ competition, in which he won the first prize at national level in solo and chamber music categories in 2013. In 2014, Levan Andria was awarded the German Musical Instrument Fund in Hamburg. In 2017-2019, he studied improvisation and the consolidation of various world music styles with Zaza Miminoshvili at the ‘Ziryab Academy’ for world music in Stuttgart. In January 2018, he won the first prize at the Karl Wendling Competition for Chamber Music with the ‘Anima Piano Quartet’. Other influential teachers are the trumpeter Markus Stockhausen and the Indian master flutist Dinesh Mishra, with whom Levan Andria is deepening his improvisation  techniques and learning Indian classical music from 2018-2023. Concert tours have taken him to Malta, Georgia and China, among others. Levan Andria is a freelance, creative cellist and active as a cello teacher. In addition to his intensive artistic work as a performer and composer in the Duo Flying Tree and in the TRIO SOUNDRISE as well as in the SOUNDRISE QUARTET, he regularly plays as a soloist or guest musician in creative projects such as the Markus Stockhausen Group. Since meeting Stephanie Lepp in 2017, Levan Andria's artistic focus has increasingly been on composing, improvising and producing his own music, which has already led him to four CD productions and several guest appearances on CD recordings. For example, he is involved in the latest CD ‘Celebration’ by Markus Stockhausen. Together with Stephanie Lepp, he pursues an intensive artistic path in the Duo Flying Tree, which leads him not only to music but also to poetry.