Khatia Buniatishvili

Six years old at her first appearance with the Tbilisi Chamber Orchestra, Khatia Buniatishvili was taught by her mother before studying with Tengiz Amirejibi in Tbilisi and Oleg Maisenberg in Vienna, and also attended master classes with Michel Sogny at the Villa Schindler. The French-Georgian pianist has appeared in recitals and concertos across Europe, North America and Asia, in a repertoire weighted towards Liszt, Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Schubert. She signed with Sony Classical in 2010. The 2024 Mozart album, two concertos with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, she directed from the keyboard. She was born in Georgia in 1987, and plays in duo with her sister Gvantsa, also a pianist. Her first record was given to Liszt, and the later album Motherland ranges from the baroque to the modern.