Ketevan Sharumashvili is a Georgian pianist. In 2010, she graduated from the Tbilisi State Conservatory, where she received her Bachelor and first Master degree with Nino Mamradze. In 2011 she continued her studies in Hamburg at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, where she obtained the highest degree in music “Konzertexamen” with Marian Migdal. She also studied with Konstantin Scherbakov at the Züricher Hochschule der Kunsten. After moving to The Netherlands she completed her second Master in 2015 with Naum Grubert and Jan Wijn.

 

Ketevan also followed Masterclasses with other pianists including Cyprien Katsaris, Paul Badura-Skoda, Tamás Vásáry and Boris Berman. She won prizes at several international competitions in France, Italy, Greece and Holland.

 

Since 2017 Ketevan is living in the Netherlands where she is active as a soloist and chamber musician. Currently she is forming a duo with violinist Birthe Blom. In 2021 she recorded a CD with Antillian classical music for violin and piano at Zefir Records. In 2024 she launched a CD names "Connected" with piano transcriptions of pieces by classical composers such as Bach, Schubert, Wagner and Rachmaninoff but also by Gershwin, Trenet and Piazzolla.

 

"Sharumashvili's musical approach has no room for hollow virtuosity or any other kind of pretentious display. Instead, she focuses on the individual characteristics of each piece and she allows them to blossom beautifully under her hands. The program thus composed and performed offers a beautiful alternation of intimacy and turbulence, assertiveness and grace, her playing characterized allure and care for nuance."

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