Salome Chitaia Piano

EDUCATION:

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire 2019-Present Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Piano Performance (UK Level 8 Doctorate) Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw 2017-2018 Postgraduate Artistic Training in Piano Performance Academy of Music in Krakow 2015-2017 Master of Music (Piano) Tbilisi State Conservatoire 2010-2014 Bachelor of Music (Piano)

TEACHERS:

Pascal Nemirovski, Mikhail Kazakevich, John Thwaites 2019-Present Jerzy Romaniuk 2017-2018 Andrzej Pikul, Marian Sobula 2015-2017 Nana Khubutia 2010-2014

SCHOLARSHIPS:

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Scholarship Award 2019 Bradshaw Bursary at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire 2019 The Georgian Presidential Scholarship 2010-2014 Scholarship for the highest-ranking students at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire 2010-2014

EXPERIENCE:

Chopin Society of Warsaw 2017-Present I was selected to be the representative of the Chopin Society in Warsaw and have since given about 100 recitals at their venues - “the Chopin Salon” and “Nowy Swiat Muzyki”.

RECENT NOTABLE PERFORMANCES:

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s Beethoven Marathon 2020 Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” Sonata Birmingham Symphony Hall 2019 Pre-CBSO Showcase with Haydn’s Last Sonata in E flat Major Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s “Novemberfest” 2019 Debussy’s “Six Epigraphs Antiques” and Messiaen’s “Visions de L’amen” Salome Chitaia and friends 2019 A Concert series organized by myself to introduce classical music to children from different regions of Georgia Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Piano Festival 2019 Recitalat the Piano Salon of Cormeilles-en-Parisis (Paris, France) 2019 Festival “Georgian Immigrant Musicians in Tbilisi” 2019 A chamber music concert at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire with Pianist Manana Gotsiridze, Volinist Yuri Kuroda and Violist Archil Kharadze. Then a series of Master Classes in local children’s music schools. “Night Serenades” Music Festival (Batumi, Georgia) 2018 With Swiss Virtuoso Violinist Geza-Hosszu Legocky Recital - Fryderyk Chopin’s Birthday Celebration Festival (Warsaw, Poland) 2018 Recital at the Georgian Embassy to Poland 2018 In Celebration of the Independence Day of Georgia Final Concert of the Festival “Contemporary Music Evenings of Tbilisi 2015 Stockhausen’s “Tierkreis” Festival “From Easter to Ascension” 2015 Premiere of Josef Bardanashvili’s Perpetum Mobile on two pianos (with Pianist Manana Gotsiridze)

COMPETITIONS:

Silver Medal 2018 Frederic Chopin Competition for Young Musicians Dnipro, Ukraine Finalist 2018 III Agustin Aponte International Piano Competition Tenerife, Spain 2nd place and a prize for the best performance of a piece by Frederic Chopin 2016 Tengiz Amirejibi International Piano Compeititon Borjomi, Georgia 2nd place 2016 Mikhailo Vukdragovic International Competition Sabac, Serbia 2nd place 2012 “Autumn in Japan” Competition for Composers Tbilisi, Georgia

MASTER CLASSES:

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire International Piano Festival 2019 Stephen Hough, Stephen Kovacevich, Peter Frankl 10th International Piano Master Classes (Katowice, Poland) 2019 Andrzej Jasinski, Wojciech Switala 6th International Master Course for Young Pianists (Radziejowice, Poland) 2018 Krzysztof Jablonski, Nikolai Demidenko Cadenza International Summer Music School (London, UK) 2018 John Thwaites, Fali Parvi, Julian Jacobson London Master Classes 2018 Norma Fisher 9th International Piano Master Classes (Katowice, Poland) 2018 Anna Malikova, Philippe Giusiano London Master Classes 2017 Norma Fisher Summer Master Classes at the Imola Piano Academy (Italy) 2015 Boris Petrushansky, Ricardo Risaliti

Master Classes with other Professors: Peter Donohoe, Paul Badura-Skoda, Sergei Babayan, Klaus Hellwig, Markus Groh, Michael Leuschner, Neal Larabee, Alexander Korsantia, Natalia Troull, Mi-Jo Lee, Linde Grossman, Rusten Hayroudinoff.