Born in Batumi, Georgia in 1987, this Georgian-French pianist began piano lessons at the age of three. At six, she gave her first concert with the Tbilisi Chamber Orchestra and by the ago of 10 was already performing abroad. She studied in Tiflis and Vienna and for many years has been performing with orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the BBC and London Symphony Orchestras, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Filarmonica della Scala and the Vienna Philharmonic as well as with many other top-class ensembles. She is also a regular guest performer at major festivals and in renowned concert halls across the world.

Following her Carnegie Hall debut in 2008, she gave concerts at the BBC Proms, the Salzburg Festival, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad and with the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano. In addition, Khatia Buniatishvili has worked with renowned conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Plácido Domingo, Kent Nagano and Vladimir Ashkenazy as well as many others. As a recitalist, this pianist has appeared in many of the world’s major concert halls including the Royal Festival Hall London, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Tonhalle Zürich.

Her latest CD with Sony Classical – ›Labyrinth‹ – was released in October 2020. In 2016 and 2012 she was awarded an Echo Klassik.

Estonian conductor and Grammy Award winner Paavo Järvi has been Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen since 2004. One of the many highlights of this collaboration was the Beethoven cycle, acclaimed worldwide by audiences and critics alike, for which Järvi received numerous awards including the ›Echo Klassik Conductor of the Year‹ award and the prestigious annual ›German Record Critics‹’ award. Their Beethoven project was followed by an intensive exploration of the symphonic works of Schumann and Brahms; both cycles also received numerous awards. From autumn 2021, the focus was on Joseph Haydn’s twelve London symphonies, and since 2024, an intensive exploration of Franz Schubert’s symphonies.

Järvi has been Music Director of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich since the start of the 2019/20 season. He is also the founder and Artistic Director of the Estonian Festival Orchestra and the Pärnu Music Festival. From the 2028/29 season, Järvi will take up the post of Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor to the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He also regularly appears as a guest conductor with leading orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

In 2015, he was named ›Artist of the Year‹ by both the British magazine Gramophone and the French magazine Diapason. This was followed in 2019 by the Opus Klassik award for ›Conductor of the Year‹. Other awards include a Grammy Award for his recording of Sibelius’ Cantatas with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the title ›Commandeur de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres‹, awarded by the French Ministry of Culture. In 2015, Paavo Järvi also received the Sibelius Medal in recognition of his work in bringing this Finnish composer’s music to a wider audience, and in 2012 he received the Hindemith Prize for Art and Humanity. As a committed supporter of Estonian culture, Paavo Järvi was awarded the Order of the White Star by the President of Estonia in 2013.