Pianist and composer Nicolas Namoradze is one of the most critically acclaimed musicians of his generation gaining international attention in 2018 after winning the Honens International Piano Competition in Calgary. Named a Gramophone One to Watch and Musical America New Artist, he received the UK Critics’ Circle’s Pianist of the Year award in 2022. His albums have earned accolades including Choc de Classica and BBC Music Magazine’s Instrumental Disc of the Month.

In 25/26, Namoradze returns to London following an aclaimed recital at Wigmore Hall last season and gives recitals across Germany including at Kronberg, the Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg and a return to Munich’s Prinzregententheater. He returns to the Honens Competition for a performance of his Neurorecital, as well as curating the Honens Lab. Concerto performances include Ravel at New York’s Kaufman Center, and Rachmaninov’s 2nd Piano Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland.

Recent highlights include a residency at the Verbier Festival with the world premiere of his Neurorecital, residencies in Dortmund and Antwerp, and a performance of Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 with Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, named by medici.tv among the nine greatest by piano competition winners. His recital at the Montreal Bach Festival drew rave reviews, with La Scena Musicale calling him “a peerless poet... a sumptuous pianist, a sound philosopher.”

Namoradze has performed at Carnegie Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tanglewood, and Gstaad, and performed with orchestras such as the London Philharmonic, Sinfonieorchester Basel, and the RAI Orchestra, with conductors including Karina Canellakis and Hans Graf.

He studied in Budapest, Vienna, Florence, and New York, earning degrees from Juilliard, the CUNY Graduate Center, and King’s College London where his teachers included Emanuel Ax, András Schiff, and John Corigliano. He teaches at Juilliard and CUNY and is published by Muse Press and Springer.