Alisa Kezheradze

Alisa Kezheradze (ალისა კეჟერაძე; 11 December 1937, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia – 18 February 1996, London, UK) was a Georgian pianist and teacher. She received her first piano lessons from her pianist mother Lucya Kezheradze. She studied at the Tbilisi Central Music School for Gifted Children with Nina Pleshcheyeva, a student of Alexander Siloti, and subsequently, at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire with Emil Gurevich.

In early 1970s, she married construction engineer George Teslenko, with whom she had a son George, and moved to Moscow, where she taught piano at the State Pedagogical University.

In 1976, she met and began working with Ivo Pogorelić, whom she married in 1980.

She died on February 18, 1996, from liver cancer.