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12/09/2024

Giorgi Gigashvili: ›Serious Music‹

Beethovenfest 2024

Event information

Date & Time

Thursday, 12. September 202419:30 Uhr

Artists

  • Giorgi Gigashvili, Pianio & Vocals
  • Nikala Zubiashvili, Live electronics

The programme

  • Classical works of piano literature that flow seamlessly into pop, electro and hip-hop
  • with excerpts and arrangements from
  • Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 7
  • Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 & No. 8 (piano versions)
  • Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne op. 9/2
  • Claude Debussy: "Clair de Lune"
  • Frédéric Chopin: Prélude op. 28/4

Serious music - what does that actually mean? Pianist and Fellowship artist Giorgi Gigashvili deliberately challenges our habits: he experiments with art music and pop music as two equal musical languages. Together with electro-pop musician Nikala Zubiashvili, he navigates between the genres.

  • The fellowship programme is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the City of Bonn.

Admission

  • 20 Euro