Khatia Buniatishvili - About

It was such a sublime moment of feeling trust from such respected people. Everybody knows the definition of the word “professionalism”, but everyone understands and develops it in a different way. And they let us be free and creative. Each time when I play in London, I know, in the hall there are people who support and trust me and that’s very strong. Thank you so much.”

One of two Georgian pianists to receive a 2010 BBT Award, Khatia Buniatishvili is a sometimes fiery and flamboyant, sometimes sorrowful and dark virtuoso who has become an international superstar. From the outset her artistic choices were unfalteringly ambitious and carried out with imagination and determination. She was clear that her debut recording was to be a portrait of Liszt featuring his piano works – and so it was, for Sony Classical. In tandem with this album release, BBT supported her wish to make a dramatic promotional film in which she appears in the guises of Marguerite, Mephisto and Faust, unifying her personal approach to the music of Liszt.

Khatia also participated in a small chamber music tour to Amsterdam, London and Eindhoven with fellow BBT Artists Viviane Hagner, Christian Poltéra and Lawrence Power (Leopold String Trio) as a forerunner to the BBT 10th anniversary events in 2013. Her remaining award funds helped with the purchase of her grand piano to have at her home in Paris.

Khatia was supported with a BBT Award between 2010 and 2012.

For a current biography please visit khatiabuniatishvili.com

Read a blog by Khatia, View from the Platform, here

Photographs by Esther Haase