Connected Ketevan Sharumashvili

• J S Bach (1685 - 1750): Schafe können sicher weiden:
• 1 Bach: Schafe können sicher weiden 05:03
• C P E Bach (1714 - 1788): Sonata in B minor II Cantabile:
• 2 Bach: Sonata in B minor II Cantabile 03:34
• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): Gretchen am Spinnrade:
• 3 Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade 03:58
• Auf dem Wasser zu singen:
• 4 Schubert: Auf dem Wasser zu singen 04:32
• Ständchen:
• 5 Schubert: Ständchen 06:07
• Richarde Wagner (1813 - 1883): Elsas Brautzug zum Münster:
• 6 Wagner: Elsas Brautzug zum Münster 08:34
• Johann Strauss II (1825 - 1899): Wein, Weib und Gesang:
• 7 II: Wein, Weib und Gesang 12:08
• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943): Sonata G minor for cello and piano III Andante Cantabile:
• 8 Rachmaninoff: Sonata G minor for cello and piano III Andante Cantabile 06:53
• Where beauty dwells:
• 9 Rachmaninoff: Where beauty dwells 04:30
• George Gershwin (1898 - 1937): Embraceable you:
• 10 Gershwin: Embraceable you 03:09
• Walter Eiger (1907 - 1991), Charles Trenet (1913 - 2001): En Avril, a Paris:
• 11 Eiger, Trenet: En Avril, a Paris 03:31
• Astor Piazzolla (1921 - 1992): Tanti Anni Prima:
• 12 Piazzolla: Tanti Anni Prima 05:21
• Total Runtime 01:07:20

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Ketevan Sharumashvili is a Georgian pianist. In 2010, she graduated from the State Conservatory in Tbilisi, where she completed her bachelor's and first master's degree with Nino Mamradze. In 2011, she continued her studies in Hamburg at the University of Music and Theatre, where she completed her concert exam with Marian Migdal. She also studied with Konstantin Scherbakov at the Zurich University of the Arts. After moving to the Netherlands, she completed her second master's degree with Naum Grubert and Jan Wijn in 2015.

Ketevan also attended masterclasses with other pianists such as Cyprien Katsaris, Paul Badura-Skoda, Tamás Vásáry and Boris Berman. She has won prizes at several international competitions in France, Italy, Greece and the Netherlands.

Ketevan has lived in the Netherlands since 2017, where she works as a soloist and chamber musician. In 2021, she recorded an album of Antillian classical music for violin and piano for Zefir Records.

Ketevan Sharumashvili, piano
Hanna Salzenstein, cello
Alberic Boullenois, cello
Theotime Langlois de Swarte, violin
Marie-Ange Petit, percussion
Justin Taylor, harpsichord

Ketevan Sharumashvili


Ketevan Sharumashvili
received her first professional piano lessons under D. Tsintsadze from 1999 to 2004 at the Zacharia Paliashvili music high school for gifted children. At the age of 14, she won first prize at the Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Paris, France. At the age of 15 she received the 3rd prize at the Greek Konzerteum piano competition in Greece, Piraeus, which was further enhanced by the gold diploma from the Fundación Eutherpe, Spain and the special prize from the Pianale, Germany.

From 2004 she studied at the Vano Saradjischwili State Conservatory, first under Prof. Nino Mamradze and later under Bejan Namgladze. In 2008 she was awarded a master's scholarship at the Tbilisi Conservatory by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. As the best student in pianist Eteri Anjaparidze's master class, she also received a scholarship. After completing her studies in Georgia, Ketevan received a full-time scholarship from the KAAD (Catholic Academic Foreigners Service).

On the way to the concert exam, the highest degree awarded by a music college, at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater, she was accompanied by professors Ralf Nattkemper and Marian Migdal. She gained further experience during her postgraduate studies as a lecturer for numerous HfMT students. In 2013 she received additional lessons from Konstantin Scherbakov in Zurich. During her time in Hamburg, she attended master classes with Paul Badura-Skoda, Klaus Hellwig, Anatole Ugorsky, Chong No Kang and Boris Bermann, among others, to refine her pianistic qualities.

The offer of a master's scholarship led Ketevan to the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (CvA) and thus to Naum Grubert and Jan Wijn. She completed her master's degree in 2016. Since then, Ketevan has lived in Amsterdam.

The concert-certified pianist Ketevan Sharumashvili is a winner of many international piano competitions. She has made guest appearances in concert halls in her home country of Georgia, in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Germany.

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