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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.
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Khatia Buniatishvili
Georgian concert pianist
Khatia Buniatishvili (Georgian: ხატია ბუნიათიშვილი, Georgian pronunciation:[χatʼiabuniatʰiʃʷili]; born 21 June 1987) is a Georgian-born French concert pianist.[1][2]
Early life and education
Born in 1987 in Tbilisi, Georgia, Khatia Buniatishvili began studying piano under her mother at the age of three. She gave her first concert with Tbilisi Chamber Orchestra when she was six and appeared internationally at age ten. She studied in Tbilisi with Tengiz Amirejibi and in Vienna with Oleg Maisenberg at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
Between the ages of eleven and fifteen, she left school in Georgia to follow intensive training with the French pianist and pedagogue of Hungarian origin Michel Sogny at the Villa Schindler in Austria, where she studied Sogny’s innovative piano methodology.[3]
Her older sister, Gvantsa Buniatishvili, is also a pianist, and they have played together on numerous occasions.[1]
Career
Buniatishvili signed with Sony
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Khatia Buniatishvili - Biography
Khatia Buniatishvili received support from BBT between 2010 and 2012, when this page was last updated. For an up to date biography go to www.khatiabuniatishvili.com
Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili’s extraordinary talent was recognized when she was very young. Aged six, she gave her debut performance with an orchestra, and was subsequently invited to give performances in Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Austria, Russia, China, Israel and the USA. Khatia Buniatishvili prefers not to be regarded as a child prodigy: virtuosity for its own sake does not appeal to her. Above all, she embraces pianists from earlier generations such as Rachmaninoff, Richter and Gould. During her studies at Tbilisi’s State Conservatoire, she won a special prize at the Horowitz International Competition for Young Pianists in Kiev in 2003 as well as first prize at the Foundation to Assist Young Georgian Musicians competition set up by Elisabeth Leonskaya. She became acquainted with Oleg Maisenberg, who persuaded her to tra
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