Graduate Center alumnus Nicolas Namoradze (DMA Performance) has been making headlines with international performances in the last month. Some reviews before:

Prizewinner to Pantheon

The recorded rendition of the Brahms concerto with the BFO was selected by medici.tv as one of the 9 all-time top performances of former piano competition winners, in a lineup called the “prizewinner-to-pantheon pipeline” that includes Argerich, Cliburn, Perahia, Pollini and Uchida. Check out the full list, and catch an excerpt of the performance on YouTube. You can watch the full concert on demand on medici, or tune into an upcoming broadcast on Mezzo.

Reviews

Another recent jump-in — also on two days’ notice — was for a recital in place of Sergei Babayan at the Montréal Bach Festival. The performance was met with extraordinary critical acclaim, among which were reviews in La Scena Musicale and Le Devoir:

“A sumptuous pianist, a sound philosopher… A unique artist, playing with a balanced restraint, surprising intellectual and emotional honesty, as well as exquisite taste and finesse… Possessing an exceptional analytical mind, Namoradze selects every sound he produces with impeccable taste and care… Namoradze’s playing is perfectly controlled: his performance is clear, shimmering with a thousand sonic reflections emerging from his overflowing imagination.” — Viktor Lazarov, La Scena Musicale

“Through infinitesimal nuances, Namoradze engages our concentration and at the same time demonstrates that he is a pianist of refinement… He uses the piano in all its range, dynamics and resonance, and attributes expressive virtues to the different pieces… Here we have a cultivated pianist with a beautiful touch and an intelligent way of shaping phrases… A remarkable control of sound, time and tone that characterized his art, which we were delighted to discover.” — Christophe Huss, Le Devoir

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