Khatia Buniatishvili

Born in Tbilisi in 1987, Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili was introduced to the piano at the age of five, gave her first concert with the Tbilisi Chamber Orchestra when she was six and appeared internationally at the age of ten. She studied in Vienna with Oleg Maisenberg. 

In 2008 she made her US debut at Carnegie Hall. Since then she has performed at the Hollywood Bowl, the BBC Proms, the Salzburg Festival, the Verbier Festival, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Festival International de Piano de La Roque d’Anthéron, the Ruhr Piano Festival and the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, as well as at venues such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Royal Festival Hall in London, the Musikverein and the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Philharmonie and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, La Scala, Milan, the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Rudolfinum in Prague, the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and the Suntory Hall in Tokyo.

Khatia Buniatishvili’s musical partners include leading conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Plácido Domingo, Kent Nagano, Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi, Mikhail Pletnev, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Semyon Bychkov, Myung-Whun Chung, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Philippe Jordan and orchestras such as the Israel Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre National de France, the Filarmonica della Scala, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic and the Munich Philharmonic.

Recent projects include giving a charity concert for Syrian refugees marking the 70th anniversary of United Nations, a charity concert in Kiev in support of wounded persons in the Anti-Terrorist Operation Zone and a concert against the violation of human rights in Russia, as well as participating in the DLD Women Conference and collaborating with Coldplay on their latest album A Head Full of Dreams.

Her discography includes Franz Liszt (2011), which won the Echo Klassik Award, Chopin (2012), Motherland (2014) and Kaleidoscope (2016), also winning the Echo Klassik Award, all on Sony Classical, as well as Kissine and Tchaikovsky piano trios with Gidon Kremer and Giedr? Dirvanauskait? (2011) on ECM and violin and piano sonatas by Franck, Dvo?ák and Grieg with Renaud Capuçon (2014) on Erato. Her latest release is Rachmaninoff’s Second and Third piano concertos with the Czech Philharmonic and Paavo Järvi on Sony Classical.

Current as of August 2018