Pianist and composer Nicolas Namoradze came to international attention in 2018 upon winning the triennial Honens International Piano Competition in Calgary, Canada – one of the most prestigious piano prizes in the world.
Namoradze was born in Tbilisi in 1992 and grew up in Budapest. Following his undergraduate studies in Budapest, Vienna, and Florence, Namoradze moved to New York for his master’s at Juilliard and doctorate at the CUNY Graduate Center. His teachers and mentors have included Emanuel Ax, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Zoltán Kocsis, Matti Raekallio, András Schiff and Elisso Virsaladze in piano, and John Corigliano in composition. He now pursues postgraduate studies in neuropsychology at King’s College, London, where his research interests include the effects of mental practice and mindfulness on musical performance. Namoradze is the author of “Macroharmony in Ligeti’s Third Book of Piano Etudes” that has been published in 2021.
His current activities include recitals at concert halls among them New York’s Carnegie Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan and deSingel Antwerp. He appeared at Banff Centre, in Tanglewood, Toronto Summer Music, at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, the Klavier-Festival Ruhr, or the Festspiele Mecklenburg and performed with orchestras including the Budapest Festival Orchestra, London Philharmonic and Ottawa National Arts Centre orchestras, with conductors including Iván Fischer, Karina Canellakis, Ken-David Masur and Daniele Rustioni.
The recent release of his debut album has received extraordinary accolades, including Record of the Month in Limelight, Instrumental Disc of the Month in BBC Music Magazine, and Editor’s Choice in Gramophone, while debuting in the UK charts as the #1-selling classical instrumental album.