Dear friends,

On the heels of last month’s whirlwind European tour — including the last-minute jump-in for Yefim Bronfman for a series of concerts of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Maestro Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra — I have some exciting news to share.

Prizewinner to Pantheon

The recorded rendition of the Brahms concerto with the BFO was selected by medici.tv as one of the 9 all-time top performances of former piano competition winners, in a lineup called the “prizewinner-to-pantheon pipeline” that includes Argerich, Cliburn, Perahia, Pollini and Uchida. Catch an excerpt of the performance on YouTube. You can watch the full concert on demand on medici, or tune into an upcoming broadcast on Mezzo.

Reviews

Another recent jump-in — also on two days’ notice — was for a recital in place of Sergei Babayan at the Montréal Bach Festival. The performance was met with extraordinary critical acclaim, among which were reviews in La Scena Musicale and Le Devoir:

“A sumptuous pianist, a sound philosopher… A unique artist, playing with a balanced restraint, surprising intellectual and emotional honesty, as well as exquisite taste and finesse… Possessing an exceptional analytical mind, Namoradze selects every sound he produces with impeccable taste and care… Namoradze’s playing is perfectly controlled: his performance is clear, shimmering with a thousand sonic reflections emerging from his overflowing imagination.” — Viktor Lazarov, La Scena Musicale

“Through infinitesimal nuances, Namoradze engages our concentration and at the same time demonstrates that he is a pianist of refinement… He uses the piano in all its range, dynamics and resonance, and attributes expressive virtues to the different pieces… Here we have a cultivated pianist with a beautiful touch and an intelligent way of shaping phrases… A remarkable control of sound, time and tone that characterized his art, which we were delighted to discover.” — Christophe Huss, Le Devoir

Management

I am glad to share that I have recently signed with two new agencies: Studio Art Concert Agency for representation in Italy, and YH Artists for representation in Asia (excluding Japan). It’s a thrill to being working with these fantastic management teams and I am looking forward to forthcoming projects in these territories. For the full list of the agencies and publishers I am represented by, please see my contacts page.

Make sure to keep an eye on the schedule on my website as well as my social media for my upcoming performances, and I hope to see you during my travels!

Kind regards,

Nicolas