Bach: Prelude in B minor, BWV 855a (Arr. by Alexander Siloti)

Chopin: Nocturne Op. 27, No. 2

The Departure (Main title theme from "The Leftovers" - Music from the HBO series)

Tchaikovsky: Valse Sentimentale

Rachmaninoff: Prélude in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 32, No. 12

Labyrinth: Ephemera

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: When I am laid in earth (Dido's Lament)

Prelude in C Major, BWV 846

Motherland

Lied ohne Worte in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 67/2

Musica ricercata No. 7 in B-Flat Major

Slavonic Dance for Four Hands in E Minor, Op. 72/2: Dumka (Allegretto grazioso)

Suite in B-Flat Major, HWV 434: IV. Menuet

Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd, BWV 208: IX. Schafe können sicher weiden (Arr. for Piano)

The Seasons, Op. 37b: X. October (Autumn Song)

Suite Bergamasque, L. 75: III. Clair de lune

Pavane pour une infante défunte in G major, M. 19

Dog Music - Relaxing Sounds for Dogs

Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2

Deborah's Theme (From "Once upon a Time in America")

Labyrinth

Sicilienne from Concerto in D Minor, BWV 596

La Javanaise

Concerto in D Minor, BWV 974: II. Adagio

Prelude, Op. 28, No. 4

Consolations, S. 172: No. 3, Lento placido

Valsa Da Dor

Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14

Sonata in D Minor, K. 32

Air on the G String from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068

3 Gymnopédies: No. 1, Lent et douloureux

6 Klavierstücke, Op. 118: No. 2, Intermezzo

Pari intervallo

Badinerie from Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067 (Arr. for Four Hands)

Born on 21 June 1987 in Tbilisi, Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili and her elder sister Gvantsa were introduced to the piano at an early age by their mother, an enthusiastic music lover. Playing four handed remains one of the sisters’ favourite activities.

Khatia’s extraordinary talent was recognized when she was very young. Aged six, she gave her début performance as soloist with an orchestra, and was subsequently invited to give guest performances in Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Austria, Russia, Israel and the USA.

Khatia 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. She admires her “favourite pianist”, Martha Argerich, for her uniqueness and, as a consequence, does not view Argerich as someone she should try to emulate. And since she regards herself as “wholly a person of the 20th century”, Khatia does not identify so much with pianists of today.

Khatia’s warm, sometimes sorrowful playing may reflect a close proximity to Georgian folk-music, which, she attests, has greatly influenced her musicality. Critics emphasize that her playing has an aura of elegant solitude and even melancholy, which she does not feel to be a negative attribute. “The piano is the blackest instrument,” she says, a “symbol of musical solitude”, which even a pianist must become accustomed to. “I have to be psychologically strong and forget the hall if I want to share it with the audience.”

During her studies at Tbilisi’s State Conservatoire, Khatia 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. At the 2003 Piano Competition in Tbilisi, she became acquainted with Oleg Maisenberg, who persuaded her to transfer to Vienna’s University of Music and Performing Arts. Winner of the Bronze Medal at the 12th Arthur Rubinstein Piano Master Competition in 2008, she was also distinguished as the Best Performer of a Chopin piece and as Audience Favourite.

Khatia Buniatishvili has given critically acclaimed solo recitals and chamber music concerts at such renowned venues as London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and the Musikverein in Vienna. In 2008 she made her US concert début at Carnegie Hall (Zankel Hall), performing Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto. 

A BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist for 2009-2011, Khatia regularly collaborates with BBC orchestras. In 2010 she receiveda Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and has been nominated by Vienna’s Musikverein and Konzerthaus as a Rising Star for
the 2011/2012 season.

Upcoming engagements will see Khatia Buniatishvili perform with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra , the Orchestre de Paris and the Munich Philharmonic with Paavo Järvi. Recitals will also take her to Berlin, Vienna, Amsterdam, Paris and the Wigmore Hall in London, with further appearances at, amongst other venues, the Verbier Festival, the Lucern Festival and the Schwetzinger Muisktage. 

Khatia Buniatishvili is fluent in five languages and lives in Paris.

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