Tamta Magradze, 28

Tamta Magradze

Born in 1995 in Tbilisi, Georgia, Tamta started playing piano at the age of 5, under the guidance of her grandmother, who was also a musician. She first studied at the Paliashvili Central Music School for Talented Children. She holds a Bachelor's degree from Tbilisi State Conservatoire, where she studied with Emeritus Professor Edisher Rusishvili, and a Master's degree with the highest distinction from the University of Franz Liszt in Weimar, under the guidance of Professor Gerlinde Otto. She continues her studies in Weimar on a postgraduate degree to receive a Concert Pianist Diploma. Tamta is the winner of the prestigious DAAD Award and Scholarship in the field of music.

She has worked with musical minds such as Leslie Howard, Elisso Virsaladze, Janina Fialkowska, Alexander Korsantia, Konstantin Scherbakov, Natalia Trull, Rolf-Dieter Arens, Immre Rohmann, Boris Bloch, Ramzi Yassa, and many more.

She is the winner of more than ten international and national piano competitions for pianists. Her competition achievements in past years include winning the Online Audience Award at the Liszt Utrecht Competition in 2020, the first prize at the Next Generation International Piano Competition (2022), and second prize and Lazar Berman special prize at La Palma d'Oro International Piano Competition (2021). She is a laureate of the Canada International Piano Competition (2021), and a finalist and special prize winner of the prestigious Liszt Budapest Competition.

Highlights of her international festival and concert engagements have included the Delft Chamber Music Festival (Netherlands), Liszt Festival in Grottammare (Italy), Liszt Festival in Schloss Schilligsfürst (Germany), Lago Maggiore Musica in Arona (Italy), Liszt Festival in Utrecht (Netherlands), European Liszt Night (Utrecht, Bayreuth, Weimar, and Budapest), Konzertsommer Musik Erxleben (Germany), Bayreuther Klavierfestival (Germany), concert Series Winners and Masters in Munich (Germany), and more.

Tamta regularly performs recitals around Europe. She appears on stages such as Tivoli Vredenburg in Utrecht, Netherlands, Müpa and Grand Hall of Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary, Musikhuset in Aarhus, Denmark, Weimarhalle and Festsaal Fürstenhaus in Weimar, Germany, La Redoute in Bonn, Germany, Kamermusiksaal Steingraeber Haus in Bayreuth, Germany, and more.

Stage 1: Recital

Stage 2: Recital

Stage 3: Recital (semifinal)

Stage 1: Recital

All competitors will perform a solo recital with the maximum duration of 30 minutes

D Scarlatti: Sonata in A minor K175

D Scarlatti: Sonata in E minor K98

F Liszt: Grosses Konzertsolo S. 176

Stage 2: Recital

All competitors will perform a solo recital with the maximum duration of 30 minutes

J Haydn: Sonata in E major Hob XVI:31

I. Moderato II. Allegretto III. Presto

F Liszt: Concert Étude “Waldesrauschen” S. 145 No. 1

S Rachmaninoff: Étude-Tableaux in C minor Op. 39 No. 1

S Gubaidulina: Chaconne

Stage 3: Recital (semifinal)

Up to ten competitors will perform a solo recital with the maximum duration of 60 minutes

D Shostakovich: Prelude and Fugue in D flat major Op. 87 No. 15

D Önaç: Five Études

II. Melancholia III. Carnival

F Liszt: Variationen über das Motif von J S Bach: ‘Weinen, Klagen’ S. 180

C Debussy: Ballade Slave

C Franck: Prélude, Choral et Fugue

Stage 4: Concerto (final)

Three competitors will perform a concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra

S Prokofiev:

Concerto No. 3 in C major Op. 26