Some photos on Giorgi Gigashvili's Instagram profile suggest he's more likely to be in a Berlin techno club than on a classical concert stage. For the Georgian pianist, born in 2000, these worlds aren't so contradictory after all – he's playing sonatas by Scarlatti one moment, singing and accompanying folk songs from his homeland the next, and experimenting with electronic music shortly after. And with success: Prizes at prestigious piano competitions, a place among Georgia's Forbes magazine's most influential "30 under 30," and a nomination as a "Rising Star" by the European Concert Hall Organization all mark his young career.

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Giorgi Gigashvili, Klavier

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He has certainly launched the most unusual start to a career in recent years: Georgian pianist Giorgi Gigashvili, born in 2000, arranged pop music at an early age and won the competition of the Georgian show The Voice at thirteen. On the side, he continued taking piano lessons and won first prize at the international piano competition in Vigo in 2019 – whose jury was chaired by Martha Argerich.

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