Joseph Jordania

Quick Facts

Full Name	Joseph Jordania
Occupation	Musicologist
Date Of Birth	Feb 12, 1954(1954-02-12)
Age	70
Birthplace	Tbilisi
Country	Georgia
Birth City	Tbilisi
Horoscope	Aquarius

Joseph Jordania Biography

Joseph Jordania is one of the most popular and richest Musicologist who was born on February 12, 1954 in Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia. Joseph Jordania (born February 12, 1954 and also known under the misspelling of Joseph Zhordania) is an Australian–Georgian ethnomusicologist and evolutionary musicologist and professor. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music at the University of Melbourne and the Head of the Foreign Department of the International Research Centre for Traditional Polyphony at Tbilisi State Conservatory. Jordania is known for his model of the origins of human choral singing in the wide context of human evolution and was one of founders of the International Research Centre for Traditional Polyphony in Georgia.

Jordania’s academic interests include study of worldwide distribution of choral polyphonic traditions, origins of choral singing, origins of rhythm, origins of human morphology and behaviour, cross-cultural prevalence of stuttering, dyslexia and acquisition of phonological system in children, study of the cognitive threshold between animal and human cognitive abilities. His primary expertise is Georgian and Caucasian traditional music and vocal polyphony.

Joseph Jordania Net Worth

Joseph Jordania is one of the richest Musicologist from Georgia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joseph Jordania 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jordania was born in Georgia (former Soviet Union). He received a BA degree in ethnomusicology from Tbilisi State Conservatory in 1978. During 1979–1983 he was elected as the President of the Board of Creative Youth of Tbilisi. In 1982 he received his PhD degree in musicology–ethnomusicology from Tbilisi Theatrical Institute, and served as lecturer, senior lecturer, assistant professor, and professor at the Department of Georgian Traditional Music at Tbilisi State Conservatory. For one year (in 1984) he served as a dean of the Faculty of Musicology. In 1991 he received the title D.Mus from Kiev Conservatory. From 1988 until 1995 Jordania was the head of the Musical Sector of the Centre of the Mediterranean Studies at the Tbilisi State University. He published his first monograph on choral polyphony in 1989. In 1984 he was instrumental in organizing the conference “Problems of Folk Polyphony”. This conference became the beginning of the series of biannual international conferences (1984, 1986, 1988, 1998, 2000) and symposia (2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018) on traditional polyphony, and led to establishing the International Research Centre for Traditional Polyphony at Tbilisi State Conservatory in 2003.

In 2009, in recognition of “his contribution to systematic analysis of folk polyphonies of the world, proposing a new model for the origins of traditional choral singing in a broad context of human evolution” Jordania was awarded the Fumio Koizumi Prize for ethnomusicology.

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Joseph Ranked on the list of most popular Musicologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Georgia. Joseph Jordania celebrates birthday on February 12 of every year.

Top Facts about Joseph Jordania

1. Joseph Jordania is an Australian-Georgian musicologist.
2. He has published over 100 academic articles and books.
3. Jordania’s research focuses on the evolution of human musicality.
4. He proposed the “Linguistic-Musical Nexus” theory.
5. Jordania founded the International Research Centre for Traditional Polyphony in Georgia.
6. He received a PhD from Tbilisi State Conservatory in 1998.
7. Jordania has taught at universities in Australia, USA, and Europe.
8. His work explores the role of music in human evolution and society.
9. Jordania is also a musician and composer himself.
10. He has won numerous awards for his contributions to musicology.