Born in Georgia on the Black Sea coast in 1987, pianist Khatia Buniatishvili began her musical training at the conservatory in the capital Tbilisi. She made her orchestral debut in 1993 and in 1997 she embarked on her first European tour. At the age of 16, she began studying at the University of Performing Arts and Music in Vienna. The highly talented pianist continued at this pace, winning 3rd place in the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition and making her debut at Carnegie Hall at the age of 19. This was followed by concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, the iTunes Festival, the BBC Proms and Salzburg Festival, the Verbier Festival, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Festival La Roqued’Anthéron, Ruhr Piano Festival and the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano. Khatia Buniatishvili has given recitals in the world’s most prestigious venues, including in Los Angeles, London, Vienna, Amsterdam, Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, Milan, Venice, Geneva, Zurich, Prague, Tokyo, Shanghai and Singapore. Among the conductors with whom Khatia Buniatishvili has worked are Zubin Mehta, Plácido Domingo, Kent Nagano, Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jaap van Zweden, Mikhail Pletnev, Marin Alsop, Klaus Mäkelä, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Semyon Bychkov, Jaap van Zweden, Gianandrea Noseda, Gustavo Dudamel, Myung-Whun Chung and Philippe Jordan. Khatia Buniatishvili is a regular guest with top orchestras around the world, such as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, China Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Filarmonica della Scala, Wiener Symphoniker, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Münchner Philharmoniker and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. This will be her third appearance at the Musikfest Bremen, after 2017 and 2019.

In October 2024, she released her tenth album on Sony Classical, her first to be entirely devoted to Mozart. Together with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, she recorded Piano Concertos No. 20 and No. 23.

The multi-award-winning pianist also uses her talents and art to support victims of war, human rights, children’s charities and other charitable causes.