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Giorgi Gigashvili

Giorgi Gigashvili

Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 2000, Giorgi studied the piano without ever thinking about a professional career as a pianist. He is passionate about the folksongs of his country, which he likes to arrange and sing. He even participated in the Georgian ‘The Voice’ and won the competition at the age of thirteen! However, he continued his musical training at the Paliashvili Central Music School for Gifted Children and entered the Tbilisi State Conservatory in the class of Revaz Tavadze.

At that time, as is still the case today, his supreme model and idol was Martha Argerich. Giorgi’s pianistic career took a decisive turn in April 2019 when he won First Prize at the Vigo International Piano Competition, with Martha as president of the jury and Nelson Freire at her side. A few months later, Giorgi won Third Prize and the Audience Prize at the Sixty-Second Busoni Competition.

The pandemic forced him to remain locked down in Georgia, where he began to write electronic music and songs that became very popular.

His passion for the piano was rekindled in 2021, when he received the Hortense Anda-Bührle Special Prize at the Fifteenth Géza Anda Competition in Zurich; this was followed by an invitation to take part in the KlavierOlymp in Bad Kissingen, where he won First Prize and the Audience Prize. In March 2023, Giorgi celebrated another great success: He won the 2nd Prize at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition and was also awarded the Junior Jury Prize, the Prize for the best chamber music and 5 out of 6 audience prizes.

Since September 2021, Giorgi has been studying with Nelson Goerner in Geneva. He is supported by the Lisa Batiashvili Foundation and the Géza Anda Foundation. In the 2022/23 season he is a Classeek Ambassador artist. He is supported by Bayer Kultur’s stArtacademy. Alongside his career as a classical pianist, he has created with his friends an electronic and experimental music group, Tsduneba, which means ‘temptation’ in Georgian.

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  • tagesspiegel 13.10.2022  von Frederik Hanssen

    Klassik-Nachwuchs in Berlin: Filmreife Auftritte

    Finnegan Downie Dear, Pascal Deubner und Gigori Gigashvili geben ihr „Debüt im Deutschlandfunk Kultur“ in der Berliner Philharmonie.

  • DEBÜT IM DEUTSCHLANDFUNK KULTUR

    Online Merker 12.10.2022 von Dr. Ingobert Waltenberger

    „Den 22-jährigen Überflieger-Pianisten aus Tbilisi hatte ich auf dem neusten Deutsche Grammophon Album von Lisa Batiashvili „Secret Love Letters“ für mich entdeckt, wo die beiden die Violinsonate in A-Dur von César Franck auf faszinierende Art und Weise interpretieren (siehe auch meine CD Besprechung für den Online Merker vom 8.10.).

    Gigashvilis Auftritt im dritten Klavierkonzert in C-Dur von Prokofiev ... war dann auch wirklich die Sensation des Abends.

    Hochkonzentriert sitzt Gigashvili da, die Schultern locker swingend, und absolviert die notenreichen Possen mit geschwellter Brust, die freche Tastenakrobatik bis hin zum jubelnden Finale auf 8000-er Gipfel treibend.. Fehlerfrei, soweit ich das beurteilen kann. Was aber nicht die Quintessenz seines – scheint es kompromisslosen – Künstlertums ausmacht. Die Herzen des Publikums hat sich Giorgi Gigashvili ohnedies gewonnen, allerspätestens als er mit seiner Zugabe – einem selbst für Klavier arrangieren ukrainischen Volkslied – Teile des Publikums zu Tränen rührt. Memorabel!"

    https://onlinemerker.com/berlin-philharmonie-debuet-im-deutschlandfunk-kultur-stars-der-zukunft-beim-dso-finnegan-downie-dear-dirigat-pascal-deuber-horn-und-giorgi-gigashvili-klavier/