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.
In April 2019 he won First Prize at the Vigo International Piano Competition, with Martha Argerich
as president of the jury. In 2021, he received the Hortense Anda-Bührle Special Prize at the
Fifteenth Géza Anda Competition in Zurich; this enabled the Géza Anda Foundation to
recommend him for participation 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. In spring
2024, he received the Terrence Judd-Hallé Award.
His debut album “Meeting my Shadow” was released in April 2023 with Alpha Classics. The album
has been highly acclaimed since its release: It reveals his full palette of colours; featuring
Scarlatti, Beethoven, Scriabin and Messiaen.
In the season 2024/2025, Giorgi will perform with the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester, the
Munich Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra as well
as with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin (amongst others). Chamber music highlights of the
season include recitals at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the
Konzerthaus in Vienna and at the Wigmore Hall in London.
Giorgi is combining his career as a classical pianist with his passion for electronic and
experimental music: “Georgian on my mind” is a program featuring singer Nini Nutsubidze and is
connecting Georgian folk songs with classical pieces by e.g. Chopin or Bartók. “Serious Music”
featuring Nikala is a one-of-a-kind stage experiment where classics meet modernity, a synthesis
of academic and electronic music. Both projects, as well as the world premiere of Giorgi’s self-
composed work for orchestra, piano and electronics can be heard as part of his fellowship at the
Beethovenfest Bonn in September 2024.
In 2023/24, Giorgi has been studying with Kirill Gerstein at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler
in Berlin; before, he studied with Nelson Goerner in Geneva for 2 years. He is supported by the
Lisa Batiashvili Foundation and the Géza Anda Foundation. Since 2023, he is supported by Bayer
Kultur’s stArtacademy and the Orpheum Foundation for the advancement of young soloists.
Giorgi has also been selected a BBC New Generation Artist 2023-2025 and has been nominated
ECHO Rising Star for the season 2025/26.