Discover Talent: Giorgi Gigashvili / Piano recital

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Tue, Apr 1, 2025, 19:30

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»He is a particularly great talent. I was fascinated by his incredible intuition when we played together. He also plays jazz and pop, composes and sings. The new generation is very open and flexible,« enthuses violinist Lisa Batiashvili about the young pianist Giorgi Gigashvili. The Georgian initially opted for a career as a singer and arranger of pop and folk music. In the end, however, he dedicated himself to playing the piano – and quite successfully at that. In recent... Read full text

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Giorgi Gigashvili

Piano

Program

Miroirs	Maurice Ravel
Postlude	Josef Bardanashvili
Sonate für Klavier Nr. 6	Galina Ustwolskaja
Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82	Sergei Prokofiev

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