3rd concert of the Port de Sóller Classical Music Festival: Natalia Gabunia, violin, and Nino Gvetadze, piano

Programme: Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) Sonata for violin and piano No. 2; Op. 100 in A major Allegro amabile Andante tranquillo Allegretto grazioso Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770) Sonata for violin and piano (“The Devil’s Trill”) ------Intermission------ Franz Liszt (1811–1886) Tarantella from “Venezia e Napoli” (piano solo) Robert Schumann (1810–1856) Sonata for violin and piano No. 1; Op. 105 in A minor Con expresion apasionada Allegretto Animado Nino Gvetadze, piano Born and raised in Tbilisi, the Georgian pianist Nino Gvetadze leads an active international musical life as a soloist and chamber musician. Her performances have been praised by many critics throughout Europe and Asia. Nino has received several awards, the most important of which were Second Prize, the Press Prize and the Audience Prize at the 2008 Franz Liszt International Piano Competition. In 2010 she won the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. Nino Gvetadze has performed with many distinguished conductors, such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Klaus Mäkelä, Jakub Hrůša and Jaap van Zweden, and with orchestras such as the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Brussels, Warsaw, Seoul and Netherlands philharmonic orchestras, the Bergische and Rheinische Philharmonie, Münchner Symphoniker, North Netherlands and Residentie Orchestra, among others. She has toured with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Kammerakademie Potsdam, the Netherlands Youth Orchestra and the Amsterdam Sinfonietta. In 2018-19, Nino was the face of Radio Classic FM Netherlands. Dutch national television broadcast the concert she gave with the Brodsky Quartet at the famous Prinsengracht Concert. She appeared in the BBC4 documentary “Story of Music” and played live on Dutch national television using the instruments of Hector Berlioz and Vladimir Horowitz. In both recitals and chamber music ensembles, Nino has performed all over the world, including in Hannover (PRO MUSICA Preisträger am Klavier-Zyklus), B