Tamriko Kordzaia

Georgian-Swiss pianist Tamriko Kordzaia (b.1970) became renowned in her native Georgia as an interpreter of Mozart and Haydn. After moving to Switzerland, she continued in this field, but became more and more engaged in new music, especially in the works of the younger generations of composers. She has received numerous national and international awards, including the first prize and the prize for Mozart interpretation at the International Sakai Competition in Osaka, the culture award of the City of Winterthur and the Swiss Music Prize in 2018 (as member of the Mondrian Ensemble). She has been a member of the Mondrian Ensemble in Zürich since 2008 while constantly touring the world for concerts. She premiered pieces by Klaus Lang, Jürg Frey, David Dramm, Felix Profos, Roland Moser, Mikheil Shugliashvil and others and released CDs on Edition Wandelweiser, NEOS, WERGO, A Tree in a Field Records and Guild. In 2020 Col Legno released a CD with music by the Austrian composer Thomas Wally, the solo piece “Experience of Limits” by Antoine Chessex was published on vinyl on the Berlin label Tochnit Aleph and the Label Black Truffle released Alvin Luciers “Works for the Ever Present Orchestra”. In 2021, Klaus Lang’s work for solo piano, “sieben sonnengesichter.” was published as double CD on Swiss label DOMIZIL. Since 2005 Tamriko Kordzaia is artistic director of the Georgian-Swiss festival for current music “Close Encounters”. Tamriko Kordzaia is piano professor at the Zürich University of the Arts.

[photo (C) Morits Schermbach]