Beka Goginashvili

I was born in 1985 in small town Gurjaani in Republic of Georgia, in the family of school music teachers. My mother noticed my good ear early on and immediately started giving me her home classes. As early as at the age of 6, I sang in the school choir. At the age of 12, I started taking private classes of singing three times a week from my first private tutor, Mrs. Davitashvili, who lived in Tbilisi, 80 miles away from my home. Finally, at the age 16, I moved to Tbilisi and started living independently to have the opportunity of participating in the Dimitri Arakishvili Musical College of Tbilisi. I graduated it with distinction in 2005 and started working as a singer of the State Capela Team the “Georgian Music Center”, and the “Opera Studio” Tbilisi. For years of working with these two troops, I have learned team acting skills and the skills of performing together with the others; improved the ability to sing in different vocal ranges; and expanded my repertoire. At the Opera Studio I had an opportunity to observe and learn from the students of Conservatory how to prepare the partiture and practice singing.

In 2008, I enrolled in the Georgian State Conservatory. For two years I studied at the Conservatory and took the full range of corresponding courses. In parallel, in 2009, my dream came true - I became a singer of the National Theater of Opera and Ballet. Here, I performed for three years in Italian operas, such as La Traviata and Rigoletto, as well as in Georgian opera master pieces such as Daisi, Absalom and Ether, and in Mozart’s Don Juan. This intensive exposure to the artistic performers and conductors had significantly enriched and deepened my musicality and talent.

However, in 2012, after receiving the Scholarship of the Government of Italy, I decided to continue my musical education in the Academy of Lirics of Osimo, Italy. For three years, I have learned singing in Italian language, further expanded my repertoire, and sung with and took master classes from the renowned singers. One of the most meaningful experiences in Osimo was that I gave concerts on behalf of Osimo in Italy’s urban and rural communities, as well as for young students of Osimo. These tours gave me skills of accustoming to the audiences, overcoming stage anxiety, and feeling connected with the audience. All in all, this was my first meaningful experience of bringing the music closer to my audience.

After arriving in the US as an individual with Extraordinary Ability or Achievement, I continued performing, and have never quit taking mentorship and master classes. Mr. Jeffrey Goldberg, New York Opera voice teacher, and Mark Oswald, Manhattan School of Music voice teacher, have been my private tutors. In 2022, I traveled back to Italy to take private tutoring from Maestro Salvatore Fisichella.

In 2019, I decided to establish a non-for-profit organization Cultural and Educational Foundation, to share my experience and inspirations with the community of Brooklyn, to connect with international performers, and promote contests of opera singers.

My artistic credo is “music moves us”. Tunes of music is my life, my essence; they make me happy. The total and uninterrupted ability of being exposed to music, particularly to the classical music, is my universe. Sharing this universe with the others makes me even happier. I especially feel connected and committed to the music of Verdi, Puccini, Bellini, Donizetti; these are the guides of my musical life, and my universe does not exist without them. Currently I continue taking tutoring classes, participating in castings, and aspire to sing on the big stages of opera.