CONCERT KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI THURSDAY SEP 30, 07:30 PM |
Khatia Buniatishvili, piano
PROGRAM
Frédéric Chopin Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
Franz Liszt Sonate in b minor
Johannes Maria Staud Hommage à Bartók
Hommage à Bartók II
Go Ahead
Frédéric Chopin Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20
Scherzo No.2 in B Flat Minor Op. 31
Scherzo No. 3 in C Sharp Minor, Op. 39
Franz Liszt Mephisto Waltz No.1 (The Dance in the Village Inn)
Khatia Buniatishvili was born in 1987 in Tbilisi and grew up in Georgia. Her extraordinary piano talent was recognized when she was very young, so she already debuted at the age of six years as a soloist with an orchestra. She was subsequently invited to foreign guest performances in Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Austria, Russia, Israel and the USA as a ten-year-old.
During her studies at the Tbilisi State Conservatory, she won the special prize of the Horowitz Piano Competition in Kiev in 2003 and the first prize of the Elizabeth Leonskaya Scholarship. At the 2003 Piano Competition in Tbilisi, she became acquainted with Oleg Maisenberg, who convinced her to transfer to Vienna’s Academy for Music and the Performing Arts. This is where she has lived and studied since 2007. At the 12th Arthur Rubinstein Competition in 2008, she won the third prize and was distinguished as the Best Performer of a Chopin Piece and the Audience Favourite. Khatia Buniatishvili speaks five languages.
The warm, sometimes elegiacally concise playing by Khatia Buniatishvili may display a close proximity to Georgian folk music. Critics emphasize that her playing has an aura of elegant solitude and even melancholy, which Buniatishvili does not feel to be a negative attribute.
Orchestra invitations have taken the pianist to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and – within the scope of a European tour – to the UBS Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra. In October 2009, Buniatishvili gave performances of the double concerto by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy together with Gidon Kremer among others at the Vienna Music Society. Guest performances at the festival in Lockenhaus in 2009 were followed by appearances at the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano and the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival of Elena Bashkirova.
Many musicians and journalists see Khatia Buniatishvili as one of the great pianists of the future.
Presented by the Austrian Cultural Forum and Wiener Konzerthaus
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