After studying at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire with Tengiz Amiredjibi, she continued her training at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien with Oleg Maisenberg. She first drew international attention through competition successes while still a student, before her Carnegie Hall debut in 2008 marked the beginning of an exceptional international career.

Today Khatia Buniatishvili appears regularly in the world's leading concert halls, among them Carnegie Hall in New York, the Wiener Musikverein, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Philharmonie de Paris and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. She works with leading orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Münchner Philharmoniker, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra. Her musical partners include conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Gustavo Dudamel, Paavo Järvi, Semyon Bychkov, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Philippe Jordan and Klaus Mäkelä. She is also a regular guest at renowned festivals including the Salzburger Festspiele, the BBC Proms, the Verbier Festival, the Klavier-Festival Ruhr and the Festival de La Roque d'Anthéron.

Since 2011 Khatia Buniatishvili has recorded exclusively for Sony Classical. Her award-winning discography comprises the albums “Liszt” (2011), “Chopin” (2012), “Motherland” (2014), “Kaleidoscope” (2016), “Rachmaninoff” (2017), “Schubert” (2019), “Labyrinth” (2020) and “Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 23” (2024). Her recordings have received numerous accolades, including two ECHO Klassik awards.

Alongside her concert work, Khatia Buniatishvili has for many years been committed to humanitarian and social causes. She performed at the United Nations benefit concert marking its 70th anniversary in aid of Syrian refugees, took part in the Global Citizen Festival Hamburg, and gave a charity concert in Kyiv in aid of those wounded in the Anti-Terrorist Operation Zone. She has likewise contributed to projects such as “To Russia with Love”, opposing human rights violations in Russia, as well as to events held as part of the UN Climate Change Conference and the DLDWomen Conference. For Khatia Buniatishvili, music is far more than an art form: she sees it as a universal language that connects, gives hope and brings people together across cultural and political boundaries. Her artistic independence, her emotional truthfulness and her uncompromising devotion to music make her one of the defining pianists of our time.

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