Anzor Erkomaishvili and Contemporary Trends in the Study of Traditional and Sacred Georgian Music

Joseph Jordania is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne, having previously served as Professor at the Centre of Georgian Traditional Music and Head of the Musicology Section of the Centre of Mediterranean Studies. He is the author of over 160 publications, including several monographs, and was the 2009 recipient of Fumio Koizumi Prize in Ethnomusicology.Rusudan Tsurtsumia is a Professor and Director of the International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony at Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Georgia. The focus of her scientific and pedagogical work is Georgian professional and ethno-music. She is the author of several works and the co-editor of the proceedings of the Tbilisi Symposia.