Nicolas Namoradze

Nicolas Namoradze (born 19 August 1992) is a classical pianist, composer, and educator. He came to international attention in 2018 upon winning the triennial Honens International Piano Competition, one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive prizes for pianists, in Calgary, Canada. Early life and education Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, he grew up in Budapest, Hungary, where he began piano lessons at age seven and attended the Liszt University of Music and a British international school. He made his orchestral debut at age 12. Upon hearing Namoradze while rehearsing with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Emanuel Ax suggested he move to New York City and study with him at the Juilliard School. Namoradze followed this advice, and after completing his undergraduate studies in Budapest, Vienna, and Florence, he moved to New York in 2013 to study with Ax. In 2015 he earned his master’s degree at Juilliard, followed in 2020 by his doctorate at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where he held the Graduate Center Fellowship, with a dissertation on Macroharmony in Ligeti’s Etudes, Book 3. In addition to Emanuel Ax, his teachers included Zoltán Kocsis, András Schiff, Eliso Virs