Nino Gvetadze

piano

Nino has been praised by audiences and fellow musicians for her admirable brilliant playing and her excellent sense of timbre. She has worked with such conductors as Klaus Mäkelä, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Michel Plasson, Michel Tabachnik and Jaap van Zweden and with philharmonic orchestras in Rotterdam, The Hague, Brussels, Munich, Warsaw, Gdansk, Espoo-Helsinki, Istanbul, Seoul and Cannes, among others. In recital she performed at PRO MUSICA Hannover, Lucerne Piano Festival, Festival Piano aux Jacobins Toulouse, among others. A regular guest of the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Nino performs annually in Finland and has been a further guest at the Spoleto Festival, Leicester Chamber Music Festival, among others,
Tsinandali Festival and Schloss Elmau; with chamber music partners including Lisa Batiashvili, Gautier Capuçon, Josua Bell, Ray Chen, Hannes Minnaar, Enrico Pace, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Frederieke Saeijs, Maja Bogdanovic, Elina Vähälä, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Daniel Rowland, Brodsky Quartet, Alma Quartet, Goldmund Quartet, Francois Leleux, Bram van Sambeek, Herve Joulain.

Nino recorded 4 CDs with the Dutch Challenge Classics label: February 2022 saw the release of her CD of two Beethoven piano concertos; the well-known 4e piano concerto and the lesser known 6e piano concerto- later adapted into the popular violin concerto. Nino plays on this CD on a Maene Straight Strung Grand and is accompanied by Phion under the direction of Benjamin Levy. A Schumann album entitled Einsam including the "Kinderszenen" and "Kreisleriana." The album Visions featuring solo works by English composer Cyril Scott, she presented at the BBC in London in November 2019. The album Ghosts from 2017 featuring Chopin's 24 Préludes, was reviewed by Radio Klara with: "An attractive and varied Chopin program and how sensitively and beautifully Nino Gvetadze plays it all, and with a remarkably rich piano sound."

Nino Gvetadze studied in Tbilisi with Veronika Tumanishvili, Nodar Gabunia and Nana Khubutia. After graduation, Nino moved to the Netherlands to study with Paul Komen and Jan Wijn.
Nino won second prize, press award and audience award at the 2008 International Franz Liszt Piano Competition. In 2010, she won the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award.
Nino Gvetadze has been Artistic Director of the Delft Chamber Music Festival since 2021. Since May 2019, Nino has been Artistic Director of the Naarden International Piano Festival.

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