Zlata Chochieva
Zlata Yuryevna Chochieva (; born 1 March 1985 in Moscow), is a Russian pianist of Ossetian origin. Life and career. At the age of 4 she started piano lessons at the Children's Music School "Yakov Vladimirovich Flier" in the class of N. A. Dolenko. In 2000 she continued her education at the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory. There she studied in the class of Kira Shashkina under the direction of Mikhail Pletnev. In 2005, she became the youngest artist ever to receive the "Honored Artist of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania" award. In 2008, she  graduated from the Moscow Conservatory with honors in the classes of Pavel Nersessian, Oleksandr Bondurianskyi, and N. A. Rubinstein (chamber ensemble), and completed her postgraduate studies in 2012. She was participating in master classes with pianists Pavel Gililov, Pascal Devoyon, Dmitri Bashkirov, Paul Badura-Skoda, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Jerome Lowenthal, and Stephen Kovacevich. From 2012 to 2014 she studied at the Graduate School at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in the class of Professor Jacques Rouvier, who appointed her as his assistant in 2013. She has been living in Berlin since October 2019. Concert activities. Chochieva first performed in public  at the age of 5. At the age of 8, she first appeared with the orchestra on the stage of the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory with a Mozart concerto. Since then, she has given concerts in the Herkulessaal (Munich), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Teatro La Fenice (Venice), Tivoli Concert Hall (Copenhagen), Casa da Música (Porto), Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon), Broward Center for the Performing Arts (Florida), Tchaikovsky Concert Hall (Moscow), in the large hall of the Moscow Conservatory and in the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia. She played with the Russian National Orchestra, thed State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian  Federation, the Copenhagen Philharmonic, the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, as well as with the Münchener Kammerorchester. She performed with conductors such as Terje Mikkelsen, Mikhail Pletnev, Vladimir Spivakov, Simon Gaudenz, Tugan Sokhiev, Marek Pijarowski, Paul Goodwin, Karl-Heinz Steffens and Gintaras Rinkevičius. Chochieva has been invited to important international music festivals such as the Miami International Piano Festival, the Gilmore Keyboard Festival (being the "Gilmore Rising Star" in the season 2017–2018), the festival «Progetto Martha Argerich» at Lugano, to the Lucerne Festival as well as to the Berliner  Klavierfestival. In 2018 she established a new International piano Festival at the Ivanovka estate jointly with the pianist Misha Dacic. Honours and awards. In 2019 and 2021 she is a member of the jury of the International Piano Competition in Aarhus. Literature. "Who's that girl?", Interview with Zlata Chochieva, "Pianist Magazine" Nr. 114, 2020