Video interview with Khatia Buniatishvili featruring in the 2013 ICO as a piano soloist.
The artist debuted in the U.S. in 2008 with a performance of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 at Carnegie Hall. Buniatishvili was presented with the BBC Three Programme's Artists of the New Generation title, and was honoured with the Rising Star award of the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna in the 2011-12 season. The pianist evokes the legendary names of Argerich, Gulda, Richter and Rachmaninoff as her masters. Her playing has a distinct warm and at times sombre style, which reflects the young instrumentalist's fascination with folk music in her native Georgia.