Zhanna Pliyeva

Background

Zhanna Vasil"yevna Pliyeva was born in Tskhinvali, Southern Ossetia.

Education

She studied music at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory, Leningrad, with Doctorate. Svetozarov for piano and with Orest Yevlakhov and A. Mnatsakanian for composition.

Career

In 1979 she worked as an assistant to Sergey Slonimsky, and later as an orchestra musician, researcher, teacher, and from 1979-1985 as director of the Tskhinvali School of Music. After 1990 she became a full-time composer.

Achievements

• Prize-winner in the All-Union Composers "Competition in 1977 Prize-winner in the Tokyo International Composers" Competition, 1993 Honoured Artist of Republic of Northern Ossetia-Alania, 1993 President of the Presidium of the Georgian Music Society, 1989-1990.