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Catherine Gordeladze
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"... With a phenomenal technique, a perfect memory and distinctive creativity, she plunged into the virtuoso work and transformed it into a piano spectacle that made the more than half an hour seem short to the breathless audience ...
without a doubt: Catherine Gordeladze is a 'rising star' and the local promoters would be well advised if they had this star twinkle in their concerts ..."
Frankfurter Rundschau Georgia-born pianist living in Germany Catherine Gordeladze has earned critical acclaim as a recitalist, orchestral soloist and chamber musician. The Zeitung für Dresdner Land called her Concert an "Exellent piano recital". Ms. Gordeladze's recent highlights include her orchestral performance for the orchestral saison beginning 2003/2004 at the Landestheater Coburg under Nicolàs Pasquet. The Coburger Tagesblatt wrote about it: "…the a- minor concerto op. 54 by Robert Schumann was superbly rendered by the young Georgian pianist Catherine Gordeladze as well as by Nicolás Pasquet ´s accompanying orchestra sounding sensitive and beautiful. From the beginning Alexis Weissenberg´s master pupil and winner of several international competitions convinced with her vigorous performance as well as with her lyrical empathy. Technically she was superior at all times thoroughly enjoying the beauty of the piano part, pleasing with passionate accents, sparkling arpeggiation and brilliant passages, ending with genuine pianistical fireworks." Her concert activity includes participation in major festivals, radio or TV broadcasts in Georgia ( several TV and radio broadcasts), in the former Sowjetunion (TV broadcast on the first channel), in the Czech Republic (Radio Free Europe from Prag), in Germany (Hessen TV, German Radio Berlin) and in Switzerland (Radio DRS 2) as well as recitals, orchestral performances in Georgia , Russia, Yugoslavia, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium. In 2000 she gave a concert with the "Young Europe Philharmonic" in Frankfurt's Katharinenkirche entitled "For a Better Life Together", which was enthusiastically received by the press and the public. In 2002 she won the 1st prize in the IV International Music festival in Dietzenbach (Germany). In the same year she received the "Prize d' Honneur" and a Medal from the world famous French "Légion d'Honneur"in the noted masterclasses by Maestro Alexis Weissenberg in Engelberg (Switzerland). The Final concert was broadcast by the Swiss Radio DRS2. Catherine Gordeladze is the 3rd prize-winner at the VI European Chopin Piano Competition in Darmstadt. She is a scholarship holder of the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation, Franz Grothe Foundation and the Frankfurt am Main "Old Opera House" Rotary Club. In 2000 she was accepted by the "Young Musicians Podium" Foundation. Catherine Gordeladze started to play piano at the age of 6 and made her debut with symphony orchestra at the age of 11 playing Beethoven's third Piano Concerto with the Georgia Philharmonic. In the same year she took part in an Anniversary Concert at the Tbilissi Opera House that was broadcast live on television throughout the former Soviet Union. In 1987 she won the first prize in the State Competition for Young Talent. She received musical training at the Tbilissi Central Music School, Tbilissi State conservatory studying under one of the most famous teachers in Georgia, Prof. Nodar Gabunja, a pupil of the legendary pianist and educator Alexander Goldenweiser. In Germany she continued to complete her training as a pianist under Prof. Bernhard Wetz and chamber music under Prof. Rainer Hoffmann at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main. She graduated in 2001 with distinction and was admitted to the Concert Examination. She has currently finished the Concert Examination under Prof. Rolf- Dieter Arens at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Weimar with big sucsess. She has been attending a number of masterclasses under Bernd Glemser, Wladimer Krainew, Paul Badura-Skoda, Peter Feuchtwanger, Joachim Volkmann, Irina Edelstein, Bernard Ringeissen, Konstantin Scherbakow and others. Having become a pupil of Maestro Alexis Weissenberg and benefiting from his long-standing instruction has significantly influenced her artistic development. Click CD cover to see discography The artiste commands a wide-ranging repertoire from baroque to contemporary.
Reviews(in German)
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