Nikita Boriso-Glebsky
A number of first prizes won in prestigious international music competitions opened Nikita the way to the world's best concert halls. The musician continuously receives invitations from the leading orchestras and festivals. Some of the brightest events of the 2019/20 season include performances with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, participation in the festivals «La Folle Journée» in Nantes, Tokyo and Ekaterinburg, the Beethovenfest Bonn, Andermatt Music Winter Festival in Switzerland, «Smetana days festival» in the Czech Republic, the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival.

Nikita debuted at The Wiener Konzerthaus with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra in June 2020, performed the whole cycle of all Beethoven's quartets with the Atrium String Quartet in Suntory Hall in Tokyo and Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. Among the most interesting and important projects was the prime recording of Eugène Ysaÿe's concert that has never been played before, in collaboration with the Liège Royal Philharmonic and Jean-Jacques Kantorow on the Belgian Fuga Libera music label. Nikita never stops to expand his geography. For the upcoming season he's got performances scheduled in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Turku, Tallinn, Lausanne, Brussels, Rostov-on-Don, Volgodonsk, Tbilisi, Linz, Nantes, Belgorod, Hamburg, Madrid, Vienna, Gstaad, Amsterdam and Tokyo, and also a tour of 17 cities in China. Nikita plays with many outstanding musicians including Charles Dutoit, Boris Berezovsky, Alexander Lazarev, Nikolay Lugansky, Yuri Bashmet, Lucas Debargue, Dima Slobodenyuk, Alexander Knyazev, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Georgy Tchaidze, and others.

Georgy Tchaidze
possesses “fine sensibility and perfectly honed technique” according to The Telegraph in its review of the pianist’s Wigmore Hall debut. Since becoming 1st Prize Laureate of Honens International Piano Competition in 2009, Tchaidze has performed throughout Europe, North America and Asia to great acclaim, including debuts at Berlin’s Konzerthaus, Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto, Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Oriental Arts Centre in Shanghai and Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, BOZAR and Flagey Halls in Brussels and at festivals including Canada’s Toronto Summer Music, Ottawa International Chamber Music, Germany’s Kissinger Sommer, Young Euro Classic, Switzerland’s Verbier, Septembre Musicale, Lucerne, Norway’s Lofoten International Piano, Festspiellene i Nord-Norge and France’s Piano aux Jacobins. His performance of Rachmaninov’s second piano concerto with Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra with Pinchas Zukerman was met with praise: “commendable clarity … unusually powerful for a performance of so little ostentation” (Ottawa Citizen). In the summer of 2015 Georgy Tchaidze was awarded 1st Prize at the 4th Top of the World International Piano Competition in Tromso, Norway and then asked to replace Sir Andras Schiff with his perfromances at the Lofoten International Chamber Music Festival.

Born in 1988 in St. Petersburg, Georgy Tchaidze began to study piano and violin at the age of 7. He studied at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Professor Sergey Dorensky for his undergraduate degree, and earned his master’s degree at the Berlin University of the Arts with Professor Klaus Hellwig. Since September 2016, he has been artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium, under direction of Louis Lortie.

Tchaidze’s reputation as a sensitive collaborative pianist is blossoming. He toured extensively with Canada’s Cecilia String Quartet and performed with the esteemed Borodin Quartet. The Calgary Herald wrote about his performance with the Borodin Quartet: “Tchaidze was magnificent, matching the experienced string players note for note to produce a performance of rare beauty and musical conviction.” His latest artistic collaborations include appearances with Cleveland Symphony Orchestra under direction of Bramwell Tovey, Forth Worth Symphony Orchestra with Leonard Slatkin, Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra under Aleksandre Bloch, with renowned Brentano String Quartet and also with such instrumentalists as Piotr Anderszewski, Stephen Kovacevich, Jean-Efflame Bavouzet, Marc-André Hamelin, Nikolai Lugansky and many others.

Tchaidze has three recordings on the Honens label: a live recording with Cecilia String Quartet, an all-Schubert album and a disc of works by Medtner, Mussorgsky and Prokofiev.