Tsotne Zedginidze

Piano / composer
“Phenomenal musicians like Tsotne are born once in a century.” (Giya Kancheli)

Born in 2009 into a family of musicians, Tsotne Zedginidze is the great-grandson of Georgian composer Niko Sulkhanishvili and renowned pedagogue Anastasia Abdushelishvili-Virsaladze. He began piano lessons at the age of five with his grandmother, pianist and teacher Nino Mamradze, and soon after, at just six years old, started composing on his own. From early on, he developed a distinctive voice, combining curiosity with bold experimentation.

In 2019, he gave his first recital in Tbilisi, followed by an appearance with the Georgian National Philharmonic Orchestra, performing Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 under Nikoloz Rachveli. In 2020, he composed The Bells, a piano work dedicated to the memory of his mother, Irene Sulkhanishvili.

Since 2021, he has been supported by the Lisa Batiashvili Foundation, which gave him opportunities to work with Daniel Barenboim, Jörg Widmann, Alfred Brendel and Antonio Pappano. His career has since taken him to major venues such as the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Berlin Philharmonie and the Tonhalle Zurich, as well as to leading international festivals including Verbier, Lucerne, Bad Kissingen and Tsinandali.

In 2024, Sir Simon Rattle invited him three times: to perform Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto with the Bavarian Youth Orchestra, Bartók’s First Piano Concerto with the Verbier Festival Orchestra, and Poulenc’s Aubade with the BR Academy Ensemble.

January 2025 saw the premiere of his First Symphony, performed by the Camerata Salzburg under François Leleux at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg. The work was subsequently taken on tour, including the Canary Islands, Stockholm (Swedish Chamber Orchestra), Edinburgh (Scottish Chamber Orchestra) and in December with the Kammerakademie Potsdam in Potsdam and at the Berlin Philharmonie.

2025 also marked major milestones as a pianist: a recital at the Konzerthaus Berlin (by invitation of Bechstein), concerts in Tokyo with the New Japan Philharmonic under Andrey Boreyko (Stravinsky’s Capriccio), a tour with the Stuttgart Philharmonic under Chloé Dufresne (Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto), and recital tours in Zurich, Japan. The spring of 2026 will bring numerous further debuts in prestigious series across Europe and Asia.

Since 2025, Tsotne has been represented exclusively as a composer by the music publisher Peermusic Classical. He also maintains close ties with the Verbier and Tsinandali Festivals, whose concerts are regularly streamed on Medici TV.

As a young student, he has been admitted to the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, in collaboration with the Barenboim-Said Akademie, where he studies composition with Jörg Widmann and piano with Sir András Schiff.

Oktober/2025