Biography

Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, Nina Matiashvili competed her ballet training at the Vakhtang Chabukiani Tbilisi State Ballet School before joining the State Ballet of Georgia in 2007, becoming a soloist of the company in 2012. Her repertoire includes The Ballerina in Alexei Fadeyechev’s The Nutcracker, Kitri in Alexeyevich Gorsky and Nina Ananiashvili’s Don Quixote, Lise in Alexei Fadeyechev’s La Fille mal gardée, as well as roles in ballets by Sir Frederick Ashton, Yuri Possokhov, Alexei Ratmansky, and Jiří Kylián. Matiashvili joined Hong Kong Ballet in 2014 as a coryphée. Since that time, she has performed in Don Quixote, Serenade, Swan Lake, Turandot, The Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker. In 2012, she performed in the Donetsk International Ballet Festival World Ballet Stars gala. She also participated in Bournonville in Biarritz in 2009 and 2011–2013. Matiashvili joined Boston Ballet as an artist of the Company in 2016.

Position funded through a generous gift from Diane and Richard Schmalensee

Repertoire

Jorma Elo, Creatures of Egmont; Alexander Ekman, Cacti; State Ballet of Georgia: Marius Petipa, Alexander Alexeyevich Gorsky, and Nina Ananiashvili, Don Quixote (Kitri, Cupid, Friends, Bridesmaid variation); Alexei Fadeyechev, Swan Lake (Pas de trois, Small Swans, Brides), La Fille mal gardée (Lise), The Nutcracker (Marie, Sugar Plum Fairy, Spanish Doll, French Doll); August Bournonville, The Flower Festival in Genzano, From Siberia to Moscow; Vakhtang Chabukiani, Laurencia (Pascuala); Marius Petipa, Giselle (Pas de Six); Yuri Possokhov, Reflections (Lead role); Michel Fokine, Les Sylphides ( Waltz); Alexei Ratmansky, Bizet Variations (Solo Role); Jiří Kylián, Sechs Tänze; Trey Mclntyre, Second Before the Ground (Soloist); George Balanchine, Tarantella (Pas de Deux), Western Symphony (Allegro, Lead Role), Sir Frederick Ashton, Birthday Offering; Sasha Evtimova, The Secret Garden; Hong Kong Ballet: George Balanchine, Serenade (Russian Girl); Terence Kohler, The Nutcracker (Sugar Plum Fairy, Spanish Doll); Yuri Ng, Ballet Classics for Children: Sleeping Beauty (Princess Aurora); Cynthia Harvey, The Sleeping Beauty (Princess Florine, Courage Fairy)

Training

Vakhtang Chabukiani Tbilisi State Ballet School Tbilisi, Georgia (1999–2007)

Career

State Ballet of Georgia, (Tbilisi, Georgia); Hungarian National Ballet (Budapest, Hungary); Hong Kong Ballet (Hong Kong, China); Boston Ballet: Artist (2016)