Music arranger, producer, audio engineer, and professional musician based in Dortmund with 30+ years of experience across recording studios, radio, television, film, theatre, live performance, and media production. Strong background in jazz and popular music, creating arrangements and production-ready backing tracks from vocal, melody, piano/guitar demos, or rough ideas. I combine musical thinking with professional audio engineering—taking projects through arrangement, recording, editing, mixing, and mastering. I collaborate with singers, musicians, directors, producers, and other creative professionals, and I’m comfortable working remotely with demos/stems to deliver finished, polished results.…

Leri Kiknadze

Music arranger, producer, audio engineer, and professional musician based in Dortmund with 30+ years of experience across recording studios, radio, television, film, theatre, live performance, and media production. Strong background in jazz and popular music, creating arrangements and production-ready backing tracks from vocal, melody, piano/guitar demos, or rough ideas. I combine musical thinking with professional audio engineering—taking projects through arrangement, recording, editing, mixing, and mastering. I collaborate with singers, musicians, directors, producers, and other creative professionals, and I’m comfortable working remotely with demos/stems to deliver finished, polished results.…

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Music arranger, producer, audio engineer, and professional musician based in Dortmund with 30+ years of experience across recording studios, radio, television, film, theatre, live performance, and media production. Strong background in jazz and popular music, creating arrangements and production-ready backing tracks from vocal, melody, piano/guitar demos, or rough ideas.

I combine musical thinking with professional audio engineering—taking projects through arrangement, recording, editing, mixing, and mastering. I collaborate with singers, musicians, directors, producers, and other creative professionals, and I’m comfortable working remotely with demos/stems to deliver finished, polished results.

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Language

Georgian
Fluent
Russian
Fluent
English
Beginner
German
Beginner

Work Experience

Sound Engineer & DJ at Club SOK
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Operated venue audio for DJ sets and live performances. Prepared and supported visiting performers, handled technical setup and troubleshooting during events.
Freelance Sound Engineer / Audio Post-Production Engineer (Film & Media Productions) at Freelance | Film & Media Productions
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2023
Recorded and edited dialogue, music and production sound; created sound effects and additional music elements; completed mixes and masters. Collaborated with directors, editors and musicians to deliver audio for media productions with studio/broadcast/film workflows.
Radio Sound Engineer at Radio Imedi & Radio Audiencia
January 1, 1991 - January 1, 2000
Recorded music, speech and interviews, produced and edited programme material including advertising and broadcasts. Operated studio systems and handled editing of radio content.
Television Sound Engineer / Audio Technician at First Channel of Georgian Television (and other productions)
December 30, 1988 - December 30, 1995
Worked on studio and location audio productions including concerts and entertainment programmes. Coordinated audio requirements with performers and production teams for television broadcasts.

Education

Jazz and Popular Music (Music College) at Music College
January 1, 1993 - January 1, 1996
Estrada and Jazz Music (Technical College) at Paliashvili Music Technical College
January 1, 1989 - January 1, 1992
Music School at Music School
January 1, 1982 - January 1, 1986
Music Studio at Music Studio
January 1, 1978 - January 1, 1981

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Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Professional Services
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    ARRANGEMENT PORTFOLIO These short, compressed audio excerpts are provided solely to demonstrate my work in arrangement, orchestration, musical structure and production. For the protection of the material and the rights of the artists and copyright holders, these portfolio previews are intentionally presented in a reduced-quality, shortened format. They should not be regarded as reference examples of final mixing or mastering. music instrumental master soundtrack vocal instrumental jingle beat voiceover master vocal voiceover jingle soundtrack…
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    ARRANGEMENT PORTFOLIO These short, compressed audio excerpts are provided solely to demonstrate my work in arrangement, orchestration, musical structure and production. For the protection of the material and the rights of the artists and copyright holders, these portfolio previews are intentionally presented in a reduced-quality, shortened format. They should not be regarded as reference examples of final mixing or mastering. arrangement musicproduction composer keyboardist MIDI musicportfolio…
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    ARRANGEMENT PORTFOLIO These short, compressed audio excerpts are provided solely to demonstrate my work in arrangement, orchestration, musical structure and production. For the protection of the material and the rights of the artists and copyright holders, these portfolio previews are intentionally presented in a reduced-quality, shortened format. They should not be regarded as reference examples of final mixing or mastering. arrangement musicproduction composer keyboardist MIDI musicportfolio…
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    ARRANGEMENT PORTFOLIO These short, compressed audio excerpts are provided solely to demonstrate my work in arrangement, orchestration, musical structure and production. For the protection of the material and the rights of the artists and copyright holders, these portfolio previews are intentionally presented in a reduced-quality, shortened format. They should not be regarded as reference examples of final mixing or mastering. arrangement musicproduction composer keyboardist MIDI musicportfolio…
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    ARRANGEMENT PORTFOLIO These audio excerpts are provided solely to demonstrate my work in arrangement, orchestration, musical structure and production. They are presented as portfolio excerpts for evaluation of the arrangement and musical development. They should not be regarded solely as reference examples of final mixing or mastering. arrangement musicproduction composer keyboardist MIDI musicportfolio…
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    ARRANGEMENT PORTFOLIO These audio excerpts are provided solely to demonstrate my work in arrangement, orchestration, musical structure and production. They are presented as portfolio excerpts for evaluation of the arrangement and musical development. They should not be regarded solely as reference examples of final mixing or mastering. arrangement musicproduction composer keyboardist MIDI musicportfolio…
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    ARRANGEMENT PORTFOLIO These audio excerpts are provided solely to demonstrate my work in arrangement, orchestration, musical structure and production. They are presented as portfolio excerpts for evaluation of the arrangement and musical development. They should not be regarded solely as reference examples of final mixing or mastering. arrangement musicproduction composer keyboardist MIDI musicportfolio…
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