Meeting my Shadow
Giorgi Gigashvili (piano)
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrument
Messiaen comes at the center of the program, and what a tender, clear-headed, and ultimately rapturous performance this is, most sensitively colored by the pianist. For me, the biggest surprise...
Meeting my Shadow
Giorgi Gigashvili (piano)
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Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrument
Messiaen comes at the center of the program, and what a tender, clear-headed, and ultimately rapturous performance this is, most sensitively colored by the pianist. For me, the biggest surprise...
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Giorgi Gigashvili is only twenty-two, but he is already hitting the headlines: now a pupil of Nelson Goerner, he is a protégé of Martha Argerich, who gave him the urge to play the piano alongside his first love, pop singing: at the age of thirteen, he was a contestant in The Voice in his homeland, Georgia, and won the prize! A few years later, Argerich discovered him at a piano competition, and he went on to win prizes at several more, including the Hortense Anda-Bührle Prize at the Géza Anda Competition in Zurich in 2021. Another high-flying mentor, the violinist Lisa Batiashvili, asked him to play him the piano on her recording of the Franck Violin Sonata. His free and spectacular playing impresses, his creativity and personality astonish. Here he presents his first recital, revealing his palette of colours: Scarlatti, Beethoven, Scriabin and Messiaen. But never far away is his shadow, the singer of the electro band Tsduneba (‘temptation’ in Georgian) which he founded with his friends.
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International Classical Music Awards2024Nominated - Solo Instrument
Nov/Dec 2023
Messiaen comes at the center of the program, and what a tender, clear-headed, and ultimately rapturous performance this is, most sensitively colored by the pianist. For me, the biggest surprise was the trio of Brahms intermezzi. Gigashvili plays the first of these with breath-stopping tenderness, and then he plays the remaining two in a similarly interior way, quite contrary to the norm.