Tamara Chitadze

* 1979 in Tbilisi; pianist; studied at the Tbilisi State Conservatory and at the HfM München. She attended the Zakaria Paliashvili music secondary school in Tbilisi and studied at the conservatory with Svetlana Korsantia. In 2009 she took the soloist diploma with Hans-Jürg Strub at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste; she attended masterclasses with Emanuel Krasovsky, Jean-Claude Pennetier, John O’Conor and Dmitri Baschkirow. She received first prize at the Sulkhan Tsintsadze chamber music competition, third prize at the first competition for musicians of Georgia and the special prize for the best Brahms interpretation at the Taneyev chamber music competition in Kaluga. Since 2010 she has worked as a repetiteur at the Hochschule der Künste Bern; she lives in Switzerland. In 2014, with the cellist Cécile Grüebler, she founded the Duo Grüebler / Chitadze, which recorded the album Hindemith. Heiden. Skolnik – Works for Cello and Piano for Cybele Records in 2019.