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Ketevan Kartvelishvili, Piano

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Ketevan Kartvelishvili, Piano

Biography

Ketevan Kartvelishvili was born in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, and did her early music studies at the Tbilisi Music School for Gifted Children. She gave her first performance with the Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra at the age of 13, performing Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No.1, under the baton of Jansugh Kakhidze. During her time at the Tbilisi Music School, she performed the Grieg, Mozart 27, and Liszt 1 piano concertos.

Ms. Kartvelishvili entered the Tbilisi State Conservatory, graduating with a B.M., M.M., and an Advanced Pedagogy Certificate from the conservatory, qualifying her to work as a performing artist, a piano pedagogue, and a professional accompanist.

Ms. Kartvelishvili was awarded Third Prize and a Laureate title in the 5th Marco Polo International Piano Competition held in Greece in 1999, and in the following year received a grant from the pianist Liza Leonskaya.

In 2009, she came to the US and joined the Toradze Piano Studio at Indiana University at South Bend to pursue an Artist Diploma. In 2010, she performed in a live broadcast of Sergei Rachmaninoff's piano works on WFMT in Chicago.  Later that year, she was awarded a Performer Certificate for her solo recital at which time she also performed Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 and Prokofiev's Sonata No. 7.

In 2011, Ms. Kartvelishvili took First Prize at the William C. Byrd Young Artists International Piano Competition held in Flint, MI. The following year, she won First Prize at the 36th Young Artists Piano Concerto Competition in Kankakee, IL, and in 2013, she took First Prize in the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale Scholarship Competition. Later that year she won First Prize in the Jacob Flier International Piano Competition in New Paltz, NY.

She has performed in Whiting Hall with the Flint Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Enrique Arturo Diemecke, in New Chapel Hall with the Kankakee Valley Symphony Orchestra conducted by Allan Dennis, and she performed Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the South Bend Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Tsung Yeh. In the summer of 2013, Ms. Kartvelishvili performed Liszt's Concerto No. 1 with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic conducted by Vladimir Feltsman.

Most recently she won First Place at the American Protégé International Concerto Competition, and as a winner, she presented a recital earlier this year at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.


Performances by Ketevan Kartvelishvili

Composer Title Date Action
Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition 04/27/2017 Play Add to playlist
Alexander Scriabin Etude No. 12 in d-sharp minor Op. 8 04/27/2017 Play Add to playlist
Alexander Scriabin Poème No. 1, Op. 32 04/27/2017 Play Add to playlist
Franz Liszt Rhapsodie espagnole 09/30/2014 Play Add to playlist
Sergei Prokofiev Sonata No. 7 in F-flat Major, Op. 83 09/30/2014 Play Add to playlist
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in f minor, K. 466, L. 380 09/30/2014 Play Add to playlist
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in C Major, K. 159 09/30/2014 Play Add to playlist

Ketevan Kartvelishvili Concerts

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