Salome Jordania © DR

Salome Jordania

Georgian pianist Salome Jordania has appeared internationally as a recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist across Europe, the United States, and beyond. She has performed at major festivals including the Texas International Piano Festival, Piano aux Jacobins, Piano en Valois, L’esprit du piano, Yamaha Rising Stars in Tokyo, the Gijón Piano Festival, and the Chipping Campden Festival, and has given a critically acclaimed debut recital at the Berlin Philharmonie Hall.

As a concerto soloist, she has collaborated with orchestras such as the Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi, Orquesta de Valencia, Orchestre de Picardie, Moscow Virtuosi, SLO Symphony, the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra and others. She is the sole winner of the New York Concert Artists Competition and a laureate of more than thirty prizes at international competitions, including the Wideman International Competition and the José Iturbi International Piano Competition.

Deeply engaged in contemporary music, she has worked with composers including John Corigliano, Jennifer Higdon, and Gabriela Lena Frank. Her debut CD, released by NAXOS in 2022, features a work by Martin Matalon recorded in Paris.

Born into a family of conductors in Tbilisi, she began piano studies at the age of seven. She holds degrees from The Juilliard School and the Yale School of Music, where she received the Charles S. Miller Prize and Yale Alumni Prize, and recently completed the Artist Diploma at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London as a Steinway Scholar.

Recent highlights include her debut at Cadogan Hall, Wigmore hall and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, as well as ongoing chamber music projects with her trio, The Graces. Named to Forbes Georgia’s 30 Under 30, she will release her debut solo album in 2026 with La Dolce Volta.