| Since her arrival in Scotland international award winning pianist Marina Nadiradze has
captivated audiences across Europe and the UK with her exquisite artistry and passion. Marina studied at the State Conservatoire in Tbilisi, Georgia, where her teachers included Veka Svanidze and Tengiz Amirejibi. As a precocious nine year old she won the first of her many international awards in Vilnius, Lithuania and since then has gone on to amass an impressive list of competition successes, including 2nd Prize in the inaugural Tbilisi International Piano Competition in 1997, 1st Prize in the highly prestigious LASMO Staffa Award in 2000, and 2nd Prize and the Lawrence Glover Silver Medal at the Scottish International Piano Competition in 2001,where she also won the prize for the best performance of the specially composed work by John McCabe. |
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Her extraordinary talent was recognised instantly when she first played in Glasgow in 1998 and this led to the offer of a postgraduate scholarship at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama to study with Philip Jenkins, one of Britain’s most sought after teachers. During her glittering career at the Academy Marina won all the major prizes and graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma and an MMus Degree in Performance, both with distinction. Since then, with the help of scholarships from the Myra Hess Trust and the Craxton Memorial Trust, she has gone on to pursue her flourishing solo career in many countries of the world, including recent outstanding performances in France, Austria, Korea and Switzerland. In November 2006 she gave her first recital at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall and this was followed in February 2007 by her stunning solo debut at the Wigmore Hall in London. |
| Audiences and critics alike are quick to respond to Marina’s artistry and virtuosity. The Scotsman for example told its
readers that Marina’s technique is “of incredible ability, pliable but strong, so that Chopin’s B minor Scherzo emerged as a
torrential downpour of notes…yet she played Scriabin with aching longing, passion and tenderness”. The Herald
described her simply as “genuine dynamite”. Michael Church writing in The Independent compared her playing to that of
the great Mitsuko Uchida. Repertoire Press Reviews |
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