BIOgraphy
"The pianist Shorena Tsintsabadze brings amazing performance, reminding us that such talent is rare to listen in the major local concert halls."
B.A. Nilsson Metroland Online (Albany, NY), February 2011.
Moscow born in a Georgian family of musicians pianist Shorena Tsintsabadze began her musical education at an early age with her mother. She graduated from the Moscow Conservatory Academic Music College and Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the class of the People’s Artist of Russia, professor Z.A. Ignatyeva, who represented the class of outstanding pianist, Professor S.E. Feinberg. During this period she became a prize-winner at International Piano Competitions, such as the Classical Heritage Association International Competition (Moscow, 1999), the Grand International Piano Competition (Paris, 1999), the Ibla Grand Prize (Italy, 2000), where Shorena won the special Jordanian Prize for “Outstanding Musicianship and Talent”. In 2000 the American label “Angelok” recorded the works by S. Rachmaninoff as her first CD with the Russian Federal Orchestra led by Maestro V. Jordania.
In 2010, she released on the renowned The World’s Leading Classical Music Label “Naxos” her debut album, and recorded the masterpieces by S.M. Lyapunov with the Russian Philarmonic Orchestra conducted by D. Yablonsky. In 2010 her album with works by S.M. Lyapunov included all of his Piano concertos, Rhapsody on Ukrainian Themes, for piano & orchestra, Op. 28. The Guardian reported: “The performances are terrific, with monumental playing from Shorena Tsintsabadze …”; “Moscow-born pianist Shorena Tsintsabadze catches fire and the poetry of the music, meets its pyrotechnical demands with relative ease and imparts a wonderful sense of imagination to her interpretations.” wrote Robert Cummings (Classical Net, January 2011). In 2015 HBDirect.com introduced Tsintsabadze’s album in the list of the Best Selling Naxos CDs. The recording was later reissued by the Brilliant Classic label as the album “Russian Piano Concertos“.
Since 2010 she has continued as a postgraduate student of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Professor, People’s Artist of Russia Sergei L. Dorensky, after a period of study in the United States with Oxana Yablonskaya. Dorensky has described Shorena as a “Brightly presented pianist with unlimited technical abilities and bright individuality”.
During her study in Dorensky’s class, she had permanent consultancies with such outstanding musicians as Nikolai Lugansky, Andrey Pisarev, Pavel Nersesyan, and Liza Ginzburg.
Emerging from the talent pool of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and with a whole series of awards and competition successes, Shorena Tsintsabadze has meanwhile enjoyed a remarkable solo career, she performs in the world’s great concert halls and works regularly with renowned conductors and orchestras.
In 2015 Shoreng Tsintsabadze founded “Young Musicians International Association of Georgia. The primary mission of the organization is to help young talented musicians, to help them with motivation, to support creativity and career advancement with various events in the future. In this regard, some of the first and most important achievements are the establishment of MISA – Music International Summer Academy(2015) and the Georgian Youth Symphony Orchestra(2017). In 2020, in the frame of the “Creative Europe” programs, the Association won a European Union Grant. The association organized projects and actively participates in promoting talented youth to this day.
On her next recordings on the ARS Produktion label, she remains true to the romantic gesture and now turns her gaze to the West: to for heroes of 19th century piano music – Schumann, Brahms, Chopin and Liszt – and idiomatic works that do justice to the title of her albums – “Klavier Romantik”(2020), which was highly praised & “Dedication“(2023), the last of which she dedicated to her father. In 2023, on the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff, she also recorded the album “Tribute To Rachmaninoff” with Rachmaninoff’s works and published a recording of Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Concerto with V. Jordania for the conductor’s 80th Anniversary.
In 2024 she recorded the “Georgian Project” – an Album consisting entirely of works by Georgian composers, beginning from the end of the 19th century and including works by contemporary composers, It is a kind of anthology of Georgian music, which already won the “Opus D’Or” Award.
