KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI

Khatia Buniatishvili began playing the piano aged five. After graduating from the Tbilisi Central Music School she entered Tbilisi State Conservatory in 2004 (Prof. Tengiz Amirejibi). She now studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna under Professor Oleg Maisenberg.
   She gave her first concert with the Chamber Orchestra in Tbilissi at the age of 6 and started performing abroad at the age of 10.
   She then started to give a series of concerts in Switzerland, Georgia, France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Monaco, Italy, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Denmark, Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Israel, USA, etc.
   She has been regularly invited to take part in various festivals among which: the “Menuhin Festival Gstaad” in 2008, the “Verbier Festival” in 2003 and 2004, the “Progetto Martha Argerich 2008 in Lugano”, the “Gidon Kremer’s Internationales Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus” in Austria - where she performed among others with Gidon Kremer- ,the “12th International Music Festival “Elba isola musicale d’Europa” - presided by Yuri Bashmet, the “Chamber Music Connect the World 2008” at the Kronberg Academy (Germany), the “Festival Autumn in Tbilissi” where she played with the Tbilissi Symphonic Orchestra, the “Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad” in 2006, “Les nouveaux Solistes aux Serres d’Auteuil (Paris), les Musicales de Compesières (Geneva), the “Musical Olympus International Festival in Saint-Petersburg”, etc.
   Khatia Buniatishvili performed also in as prestigious places as in Paris at the Theatre des Champs Elysées, the Salle Gaveau, the Salle Cortot or the Auditorium du Louvre - recital broadcasted on France Musique- , at the Salle Garnier in Monte Carlo, the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Grand Hall of the St-Petersburg Philharmonia, the Moscow State Conservatoire Hall, the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, the Tbilisi Opera, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Rudolfinum in Czech Republic, etc.
   She also made a US debut performing at the Carnegie Hall (Zankel Hall) in 2008 where she played Chopin - Concerto No. 2 of with the Yale Symphony Orchestra.
She played with some famous orchestras like the UBS Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra (tour in Europa), the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (Brahms: Concerto No.2 and Mozart: Concerto No.24), the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra (Tchaikovsky: Concerto No.1), the Arthur Rubinstein Orchestra, the Tbilisi State Symphonic Orchestra among others.
   The artistic talent of Khatia Buniatishvili earned her various prizes and awards : 12th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition (2008): Third Prize winner along with a Special Prize “Best Performer of a Chopin piece” and “Audience Favorite” Prize in Eilat” The 3rd Tbilisi International Piano competition (2005): Second Prize winner along with Special Prize “for Artistry” and Special Prize “Best Georgian young pianist”.
   This concert is Khatia Buniatishvili’s first performance in Denmark.

Programme

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) – Sonata no. 7, opus 83
   Allegro inquieto
   Andante caloroso
   Precipitato

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) – Ballad no. 4, f minor, opus 52

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Sonata
Mephisto-Vals