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.
In 2019, he won First Prize at the Vigo International Piano Competition, with Martha as president of the jury. In 2021 he received the Hortense Anda-Bührle Special Prize at the Fifteenth Géza Anda Competition in Zurich. At the KlavierOlymp in Bad Kissingen in the same year 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. In 2024, he added the Terrence Judd-Hallé Award and the music prize of Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft to his accolades.
His debut album »Meeting my Shadow« was released in April 2023 with Alpha Classics. The CD has since been highly acclaimed: It reveals his full palette of colours; featuring Scarlatti, Beethoven, Scriabin and Messiaen.
In the 2024/2025 season, Giorgi appeares with the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, among others. Chamber music highlights of the season include solo appearances at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, Leipzig’s Gewandhaus, Vienna’s Konzerthaus and London’s Wigmore Hall.
Giorgi combines his career as a classical pianist with his passion for electronic and experimental music: »Georgian on my Mind« is a programme with singer Nini Nutsubidze, combining Georgian folk songs with classical works by Chopin and Bartók. »Serious Music« feat. Nikala is a unique stage experiment in which classical meets modern and electronic music. Both projects, as well as the world premiere of his self-composed work for orchestra, piano and electronics, were performed as part of his Fellowship at Beethovenfest Bonn in September 2024.
Since 2023, Giorgi has been studying with Kirill Gerstein at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. Before that he was studying with Nelson Goerner in Geneva. He is supported by the Lisa Batiashvili Foundation and the tArtacademy of Bayer Kultur as well as the Orpheum Stiftung zur Förderung junger Solisten. Moreover, he is a BBC New Generation Artist from 2023 to 2025 and has been selected as an ECHO Rising Star for the 2025/26 season.
Konzerte im Festival
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Giorgi Gigashvili & East-West Chamber Orchestra
Orchestra, PianoEast-West Chamber Orchestra, Rostislav Krimer
Weinberg, Tüür, Schostakowitsch