Nino Gvetadze

Nino Gvetadze

Piano

Nino Gvetadze is managed worldwide by Leontien van der Vliet

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T: +31 6 5 24 68 707

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Nino is praised by audiences and fellow musicians for her admirable brilliance in playing and her excellent sense of timbre. She has worked with conductors such 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, Tsinandali Festival and at Schloss Elmau; with chamber music partners such as 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 5 CDs with the Dutch Challenge Classics label: November 2023 saw the release of her album “The Muse”, with Brahms’s Handel Variations & Fugue. Presto Magazine wrote: What Gvetadze presents is Brahms of terrific character and life certainly, but imbued with an almost Mendelssohnian lightness, clarity and delicacy ... Gvetadze avoids any sense of heaviness with playing of Mozartian transparency and pellucid tone. Each variation is wonderfully characterised and there is a real sense of forward propulsion leading to the final fugue. The whole performance is superb and her conception sounds fresh as a daisy. The same is true of the Op 79 Rhapsodies. Here again Gvetadze's precision and clarity are a revelation, making this familiar music sound newly minted.

February 2022 saw the release of her CD with two Beethoven piano concertos: the well-known 4th piano concerto and the lesser-known 6th piano concerto – later modified into the popular violin concerto. On this CD, Nino plays on a Maene Straight Strung Grand and is accompanied by Phion conducted by Benjamin Levy. In 2020, a Schumann album titled Einsam was released including the "Kinderszenen" and "Kreisleriana". She presented the album Visions with solo works by English composer Cyril Scott at the BBC in London in November 2019. The 2017 album Ghosts, 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 all this, and with a remarkably rich piano sound."

Nino received various awards, the most important were the Second Prize, Press Prize and Audience Award at the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition 2008. She became the winner of prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2010. Born and raised in Tbilisi, Nino studied with Veronika Tumanishvili, Nodar Gabunia and Nana Khubutia. After her graduation Nino moved to the Netherlands to study with Paul Komen and Jan Wijn. Since 2008 Nino plays in a piano trio with her colleagues Frederieke Saeijs and Maja Bogdanovic.

Since 2019 Nino Gvetadze is the Artistic Leader of Naarden International Piano Festival. In 2021 she succeeded Lisa Ferschtman as artistic director of the Delft International Chamber Music Festival.

Nino plays on a Steinway Grand Piano, kindly lent to her by the Dutch National Music Instrument Foundation.

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Highlights 2024-25

2 August, Mozart Piano concerto no 23, K488 in a version for piano and string quintet at Delft Chamber Music Festival

23 August, Beethoven Piano Concerto no. 4  with Phion at Stift Festival (20th anniversary) in Enschede

4 October TivoliVredenburg Utrecht: Vigh A Vison in a Dream (world premiere, commissioned by AVROTROS Vrijdagconcert)

6 October Concertgebouw, Schubert and Brahms

16 February 2025 TivoliVredenburg Utrecht Trio Gvetadze-Saeijs Bogdanovic

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Reviews

“This is, quite simply, gorgeous. Nino Gvetazde plays Schumann’s much-loved “Arabeske”, “Kinderszenen” and “Kreisleriana”, as though they flow spontaneously from her. Time is elastic, liberated from the tyranny of the pulse. Her intensely vocal approach recalls the principles of the Russian piano school, in that distances are measured as though sung, not through the handspan. The lyricism is exquisite, for example in the intimate close of the “Arabeske”. She is also alert to Schumann’s harmony, relishing all dissonances, and understanding their relative importance.”

— Natasha Loges, BBC music magazine

“Since Nicholas Angelich’s fine 2016 recording (Erato), I don’t know when I’ve enjoyed a Kreisleriana quite so much. Filled with robust contrasts and with exquisitely sculpted phrasing throughout, Gvetadze’s sensitivity to Schumann’s vaunted ‘inner voices’ is unsurpassed.... If you don’t yet know her playing, great pleasures await.”

— Patrick Rucker, Gramophone

“The international circuit can be a cruel place for pianists if they don’t have powerful record companies to promote them, and if they are not natural media tarts, ready to give interviews at the drop of a hat. Such is the case with the Georgian pianist Nino Gvetadze, who has been overshadowed by showier but less refined compatriots who have hogged the coverage. Her new CD, with its purpose – in her own words, to brighten an hour in this year of “loneliness, isolation, and silence” – is an unalloyed delight. Its programme - including Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, and “Vogel als Prophet” (Bird as Prophet) – coheres beautifully, and its title, which translates as lonely, has been adroitly chosen. Her manner with Kinderszenen “scenes from childhood” is sweetly conversational, and her Kreisleriana has a wonderfully relaxed eloquence. Her “Vogel als Prophet” is exquisite beyond words.”

— Michael Church, Independent

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