Papuna Ghvaberidze graduated from the Tbilisi V. Sarajishvili State Conservatoire, Choir Conducting faculty (under Professor Givi Bolashvili) and postgraduate studies in Opera and Symphony Conducting faculty (under Professors Givi and Zaza Azmaiparashvili). Currently he is an associate professor at the same conservatoire.

Papuna Ghvaberidze began his artistic career in 2000, as a choir conductor and during six years worked at the Niko Sulkhanishvili National Choir. In 2005-2008 Papuna Ghvaberidze was a Chief Conductor and music director at Kutaisi M. Balanchivadze State Opera House and Music Hall, where Giuseppe Verdi’s RIGOLETTO had been performed under his baton. Since 2011 he had been the invited conductor at the same institution and conducted Otar Taktakishvili’s MINDIA.

Papuna Gvaberidze has been the conductor of the Opera Department of the Tbilisi State Conservatory since 2013. In 2014 he performed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The LA NOZZE DI FIGARO and Giacomo Puccini's LA BOHÈME here, in 2019 he performed Dolidze's KETO AND KOTE, and in 2022 he will perform Puccini's GIANNI SCHICCHI. He is the conductor of Tbilisi Opera Theatre productions of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, Hertel's LA FILLE MAL GARDEE,  Ravel's MEDEA, and Minkus' LA BAYADERE. He conducted Minkus's DON QUIXOTE in Riga in 2019. In 2022, during the State Ballet of Georgia's tour in Italy, he conducted ten performances of THE NUTCRACKER at the Turin Opera House and five performances of DON QUIXOTE in Bologna. In 2024, during the tour of the State Ballet of Georgia in Sicily, he conducted 7 performances of Swan Lake at the Teatro Massimo Bellini. In the same year, as part of the Georgian State Ballet's tour, he conducted fifteen performances of the same performance with the English National Orchestra in the London Coliseum and THE NUTCTACKER in Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo.
He is second conductor and assistant conductor in many opera productions. As an assistant he has worked on AIDA (2017), OTELLO (2024), has performed CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA, PAGLIACCI, ABESALOM AND ETERI, as well as has worked on TURANDOT, SIMONE BOCCANEGRA, DON CARLOS.

MIKE DIXON and MAGGIE FOYER, Dance Magazine:

Swan Lake from Tbilisi. "The impetus of the entire ballet, from the exciting Over- ture to the final chords of the music, is driven by the dy- namic conducting of Papuna Ghvaberidze. The Orchestra of English National Opera are galvanised by his energy and authority into performances of fiery intensity and voluptuous tone. If there is a star on the opening night, it is Ghvaberidze! Ballet conducting and playing of this quality is very rare."