BBC New Generation Artists: Giorgi Gigashvili and Nikala

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Posted 2024-05-07 by Jane ⇒ follow

Mon 13 May 2024

Monday 13 May 2024 | 7pm
University Hall | Nottingham Trent University
Tickets: See Below

BBC Radio 3 New Generation artist Giorgi Gigashvili (piano) is joined by multi-instrumentalist Nikala for Serious Music. A one-of-a-kind stage experiment featuring classical music, pop, electro and hip-hop, Serious Music is a conversation between voice, piano and electronics.

Giorgi Gigashvili – Piano

Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, Giorgi studied the piano at the Paliashvili Central Music School for Gifted Children and entered the Tbilisi State Conservatory in the class of Professor Revaz Tavadze. He won First Prize in the Vigo International Piano Competition (2019) and the Special Prize at the Fifteenth Géza Anda Competition in Zurich (2021). This was followed by an invitation to take part in the KlavierOlymp in Bad Kissingen, where Giorgi won First Prize and the Audience Prize. In 2023, he won 2nd Prize at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition and was also awarded the Junior Jury Prize, the prize for the best chamber music and five out of six audience prizes.

Since autumn 2023, Giorgi has been studying with Kirill Gerstein at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. He is supported by the Lisa Batiashvili Foundation and the Géza Anda Foundation. In the 2022/23 season he was a Classeek Ambassador artist and since 2023 has been supported by

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