In performances of concert and recital works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Prokofiev, Schumann and others, Georgian pianist Dudana Mazmanishvili’s lyrical gifts and exceptional virtuosity have won critical acclaim on stages around the world. Prizes include the Busoni Competition (Bolzano, Italy), the August Everding Prize in Munich, the Dorothy MacKenzie Award at the International Keyboard Festival, and the Nadia Reisenberg Award in New York City, which resulted in Dudana’s New York City recital debut at Merkin Hall.
In the 2010/11 season, Dudana plays recitals throughout her native Georgia and Germany, where she also plays performances of Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4. In October 2010 she plays the Schumann Piano Concerto in Austria before beginning a US tour including Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 with the New Jersey Symphony and Music Director Jacques Lacombe, and recitals presented by the Fryderyk Chopin Society in Texas, whose International Competition she won in 2010. In the spring she joins the Asheville Symphony and Music Director Daniel Meyer for Mozart Concerto K. 467.
Recent notable appearances include her Carnegie Hall debut, in recital at Zankel Hall, sponsored by International Performing Artists; at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.; at the Salle-Cortot in Paris; the Gasteig Philharmonie in Munich with the Bach Collegium; the Konzerthaus Berlin; and at Vienna’s Musikverein. Dudana has performed with the Georgian Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, et al., and was recently named to “Rising Star” lists in International Piano Magazine, and in Musical America by her notable champion, Harris Goldsmith.
Drawn to music at an early age, Dudana began piano lessons with her mother, Tamar Apakidze, at the age of three. As her mother nurtured Dudana’s musical skills, her father, an architect, helped instill in her a love of visual art. Her watercolors and oil paintings have had several public exhibitions in Georgia.
Dudana continued studies at the Munich Hochschule with pianist and pedagogue Elisso Virsaladze, and in New York City at the Mannes School of Music with Jerome Rose. She has participated in masterclasses with Boris Berezovsky and with Earl Wild at the International Keyboard Festival.
Her debut recital disc of works by Bach, Busoni, Liszt and Rachmaninoff, was recorded by the Bavarian Radio for the OEHMS label, and has received widespread critical acclaim.
Fluent in Czech, English, French, Georgian, German, and Russian, Dudana lives in Berlin and Tbilisi, and was recently named “Consultant for Culture and Press Relations in Germany” by the Georgian government.
