Zlata Chochieva made her first stage appearance at age five and gave her debut with an orchestra two years later, performing Mozart’s Concerto No. 17 at Grand Hall of Moscow State Conservatory. When she was 12, she gave a full recital, broadcast on Russian television, which caught the attention of Mikhail Pletnev and later became his protégée at Central Special Music School.
In 2005, Chochieva was named Honorable Artist of the North Ossetia Republic, becoming the youngest ever artist to hold such a distinction. In 2012, she graduated with distinction from Moscow State Conservatory. Zlata Chochieva continues to gain worldwide recognition, including earning top prizes in 14 international competitions. She has played in the world’s leading concert halls as a soloist and with major orchestras. Along with an orchestral repertoire of over 50 concerti, Zlata Chochieva is a devoted chamber music performer.
“Im freien,” Chochieva’s most recent release for Naïve Records, was selected by Gramophone as an “Editor’s Choice” for June 2023. Her first recording for Naïve, “Chiaroscuro” (May 2022), a combination of Mozart and Scriabin, earned a Critic’s Choice in International Piano Magazine. Her “(re)creations” disc, recorded during the pandemic on Accentus (a collection of piano transcriptions by Rachmaninoff, Liszt, and Friedman), won a prestigious German Record Critics’ Award.
Chochieva completed her studies at Mozarteum University of Salzburg with Jacques Rouvier and was subsequently his assistant for several years. In 2018, she established the International Festival at Rachmaninoff’s estate and serves as its director. She currently resides in Berlin.
J. S. Bach-Bartók, Second Movement (Lento) from Organ Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 530
R. Schumann, Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13
Brahms, Romanze in F Major, Op. 118, No. 5
Brahms, Scherzo in E-flat Minor, Op. 4
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Rachmaninoff, Selected Preludes from Op. 23
- No. 4 Andante cantabile (G Major)
- No. 7 Allegro (C Minor)
- No. 9 Presto (E-flat Minor)
- No. 10 Largo (G-flat Major)
Rachmaninoff, Selected Preludes from Op. 32
- No. 3 Allegro vivace (E Major)
- No. 5 Moderato (G Major)
- No. 6 Allegro appassionato (F Minor)
- No. 8 Vivo (A Minor)
Rachmaninoff, Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42
Mendelssohn-Rachmaninoff, Scherzo from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
