Piano Solo – Giorgi Gigashvili

Young Georgian pianist Giorgi Gigashvili (born 2000) has quickly made a name for himself on the international concert scene. A major turning point came in 2019 when he won the prestigious Vigo International Piano Competition – with legendary pianist Martha Argerich as jury chair. He was a BBC New Generation Artist 2023–25 and is now nominated for ECHO Rising Stars.

Gigashvili was born in Tbilisi and won his first music competition at the age of thirteen. He went on to study at the Zakaria Paliashvili Music School for Gifted Children, followed by piano studies at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire with the renowned teacher and pianist Revaz Tavadze.

Now making his debut at Konserthuset Stockholm, he presents a programme including Shostakovich’s Second Piano Sonata, Lili Boulanger’s evocative D’un vieux jardin (“From an old garden”), Chopin’s magnificent Fourth and final Ballade, and one of Ravel’s most beloved piano works – the suite Miroirs (“Mirrors”). The concert concludes with Galina Ustvolskaya’s (1919–2006) brutally expressive Piano Sonata No. 6.

Rising Stars is a unique and forward-looking collaboration between 23 of Europe’s leading concert halls, all part of ECHO – the European Concert Hall Organisation. Each year, a select group of young artists and ensembles from across Europe are given the opportunity to tour all of the venues and perform for international audiences. Time and again, the artists chosen for Rising Stars go on to enjoy internationally successful careers.

Giorgi Gigashvili is nominated for ECHO Rising Stars by Konzerthaus Dortmund, Kölner Philharmonie, Philharmonie Luxembourg and the Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice.