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Giorgi Gigashvili Takes 9 Awards at the Rubinstein-Competition

2023-03-31

22-year-old Giorgi Gigashvili was literally showered with awards at the Rubinstein-Competition last week. Many of them mean concert engagements in Israel. Moreover, Giorgi’s first solo CD will be published soon.

16th Concours Géza Anda 2024

2023-02-02

The next Concours Géza Anda will be carried out between 30th May und 8th June 2024 in Zurich and Winterthur. It is open to participants from all countries who are born after 30th May 1992. Details will be published on this website in Spring.

Concerts

Conducting from the piano

In September 2022, the Géza Anda-Foundation presented a masterclass held by Mikhail Pletnev, in collaboration with Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. Four talented prizewinners of major international piano competitions learnt how to rehearse a concerto from the Viennese Classical period with the orchestra and lead it from the keyboard, without a conductor.

GÉZA ANDA CENTENARY YEAR 2021

Géza Anda’s 100th birthday was brought to people’s minds with concerts in, amongst others, Budapest and Zurich, with CD and book releases and various other events. Here you can gain insight into the various centenary activities of the Géza Anda-Foundation and its partners.

15th CONCOURS GÉZA ANDA 2021

Surely, the 15th International Piano Competition Concours Géza Anda was the jubilee event with the greatest impact of all our projects. In 2021 it was carried out under difficult conditions but with utmost success. Here you can get to know everything about the contest and its winners.