I can hardly imagine a finer piano concerto than this." (Seen and Heard International)
In his Gramophone review of Zlata Chochieva's sensational recording of Chopin's etudes, which was included in Gramophone's list of the 10 best Chopin recordings, critic Jeremy Nicholas exclaimed: 'it is certainly one of the most consistently inspired, masterfully executed and beautifully sounding versions I can recall.' In the 2024/2025 season, Zlata Chochieva makes her solo debut at Carnegie Hall in New York and her orchestral debut in Paris with Marzena Diakun. She will also give recitals at the new Bechstein Hall in London, Konzerthaus Berlin, Sala Verdi in Milan and Victoria Concert Hall in Singapore, among other venues.
Recording exclusively for Naïve Records, her debut CD with orchestra and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra will be released in October 2024 and features piano concertos by Rimsky-Korsakov, Prokofiev and Tsfasman. Her most recent solo release, 'Im freien', was met with great critical acclaim, was named 'Editor's Choice' in Gramophone Magazine and received 5 stars from 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 'Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik'. Zlata first appeared on stage at the age of four, and just three years later she made her orchestral debut in a Mozart concert in the Great Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory. Since then, she has given concerts at the Herkulessaal in Munich, Concertgebouw in 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 in Porto, Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory and Taiwan's National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts. With a remarkably extensive and varied orchestral repertoire of around 60 concerts, 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 Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra.
Among the conductors Zlata has enjoyed working with are Mikhail Pletnev, Simon Gaudenz, Dmitry Matvienko and Tugan Sokhiev. Zlata Chochieva is a committed chamber musician and has worked with Stephen Kovacevich, Lynn Harrell, Gilles Apap, Wenzel Fuchs and Jacquelyn Wagner, among others. Zlata Chochieva was born in Moscow and now lives in Berlin.
She was a pupil of Mikhail Pletnev at the Central Special Music School and also studied with Pavel Nersessian at the Moscow State Conservatory. She completed her studies at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with Jacques Rouvier and was subsequently his assistant for several years. In 2018, Zlata established the International Festival at Rachmaninov's estate in Ivanovka and is its director. In 2023, she performed and spoke about Rachmaninov at his Villa Senar in a project entitled 'The Alchemy of the Piano' by German film producer Jan Schmidt-Garre. Being of Ossetian origin, Zlata speaks Ossetian, a language that UNESCO has classified as 'vulnerable'.
In addition to her career as a performing musician, her current passion is film scoring - something she is making her first foray into this year. 2024/2025.
