Georgian Pianist to Perform at Verbier Music Festival

Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili will perform a recital at the prestigious Verbier Festival in the heart of the Swiss Alps.

Lovers of classical music will have a chance to attend Buniatishvili’s solo performance at the Festival in the mountain resort of Verbier, Switzerland on July 28.

Buniatishvili, who has described the piano as a "symbol of musical solitude", chose the piano over the violin despite her perfect pitch. She and her older sister Gvantsa learned the piano together and performed duets at home.

She began studying piano through her mother at the age of three. She was just six years old child when she gave her first concert with the Chamber Orchestra in Tbilisi. From the age of ten she was performing concerts in Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Israel and the US.

In 2010 Buniatishvili received the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and was included in the BBC series New Generation Artists. The Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus nominated her as Rising Star for the 2011–2012 seasons and in 2012 she was awarded Best Newcomer of the Year in the Echo Klassik awards.

The Guardian said of Buniatishvili: “This is playing straight from the heart from one of today's most exciting and technically gifted young pianists".

Tamar Svanidze