Born in Georgia, the first prize viola winner of the national conservatory of Tbilissi (Georgia), Archil Kharadze received his diploma from the Music Academy of Moscow where he worked with Maestro Borisovski.
While in Moscow, he entered the Gnessine Institute in the class of Valentin Berlinski (the Borodine Quartet), where he graduated after perfection studies in chamber music.
From 1972 to 1979 he was solo viola in the Philharmonic Orchestra of Georgia in Tbilissi. In 1979 he created the Tbilissi Quartet with whom he won the first prize of the string quartet competition of the Soviet Union.
In the following year the quartet started its international career after winning the 2nd Grand Prize of the Evian International competition.
In 1987 the Tbilissi Quartet won the 1st Prize of the Dimitri Schostakovitch International Competition for String Quartets.
The deterioration of the political situation in Georgia prevented the quartet, then touring in France, from returning to their country. The French Ministry of Culture offered them residency in Blois during the years of 1993-1996, after which they ended their collaboration. From 1996 to 2001, Artchyl Kharadze was a professor at the Cairo Conservatory in Egypt.
Archil Kharadze plays on a ‘Francesco Ruggieri’ viola from 1716.
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