“I can think of few piano recitals finer than this”          
      (Seen and Heard International)

Writing in Gramophone of Zlata Chochieva’s sensational recording of the Chopin Etudes, being included in Gramophone’s list of 10 greatest Chopin recordings, critic Jeremy Nicholas exclaimed, ‘it is certainly one of the most consistently inspired, masterfully executed and beautiful-sounding versions I can recall.’

 In the 2024/2025 season, Zlata Chochieva will make her Carnegie Hall solo debut in New York and orchestral debut in Paris with Marzena Diakun, as well as playing recitals at the new Bechstein Hall in London, Konzerthaus Berlin, Sala Verdi in Milan, at Victoria Concert Hall Singapore among others.

 Recording exclusively for Naïve Records, her debut orchestral CD with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is to be released in October 2024 featuring piano with orchestra works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Prokofiev and Tsfasman. Her most recent solo release, ‘Im freien’, met much critical acclaim, named ‘Editor’s Choice’ on Gramophone Magazine and earning 5 star review by Musica magazine. Her ‘(re)creations’ disc, recorded during the pandemic on Accentus (a collection of piano transcriptions by Rachmaninov, Liszt, and Friedman), won a prestigious ‘German Record Critics’ Award. 

 At the age of four Zlata made her first stage appearance, and just three years later, made her orchestral debut performing a Mozart Concerto at the Grand Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory. Since then, she has given concerts at the Herkulessaal Munich, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Philharmonie de Paris, Wigmore Hall, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Konzerthaus Berlin, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen, Casa da Música Porto, the Grand Hall of Moscow Conservatory, and Taiwan’s National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts. 

 Having a remarkably extensive and varied orchestral repertoire of about 60 concerti, Zlata Chochieva has performed with numerous major orchestras, including the Russian National Orchestra, Russian State Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Munich Chamber Orchestra and National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan. Conductors Zlata has enjoyed working with include Mikhail Pletnev, Simon Gaudenz, Dmitry Matvienko and Tugan Sokhiev.

 Zlata Chochieva is a devoted chamber music performer having worked with Stephen Kovacevich, Lynn Harrell, Gilles Apap, Wenzel Fuchs and Jacquelyn Wagner, among others.

 Zlata Chochieva was born in Moscow and now resides in Berlin. A protege of Mikhail Pletnev at the Central Special Music School, she also studied with Pavel Nersessian at the Moscow State Conservatory. She completed her studies at Mozarteum University of Salzburg with Jacques Rouvier and was subsequently his assistant for several years. 

 In 2018 Zlata established the International Festival at Rachmaninov’s estate in lvanovka and serves as its Director.  In 2023 she performed and spoke about Rachmaninoff at his Villa Senar in a project titled ‘The Alchemy of the Piano’ by the German film producer Jan Schmidt-Garre.

Being of Ossetian origin Zlata speaks Ossetian, a language which UNESCO has listed as ‘vulnerable’. In addition to her performing career, her current main passion is Film scoring – something in which she makes her first attempt this year.

 2024/2025
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