Born in 1987 in Tbilisi, Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili was introduced to the piano at age five, gave her first concert with the Tbilisi Chamber Orchestra when she was six, and appeared internationally at age 10. She studied in Vienna with Oleg Maisenberg, and she is a winner of the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition.

Ms. Buniatishvili is regularly invited to perform at festivals, including Verbier, Lucerne, Ravinia, Aspen, Menuhin (Gstaad), Amsterdam, BBC Proms, Montpellier, Salzburg, La folle journée, Piano aux Jacobins, and Progetto Martha Argerich.

In 2008, she made her US debut at Carnegie Hall in a performance of Chopin's Second Piano Concerto. Since then, she has performed with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Kent Nagano, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica, Sinfonia Varsovia and Maxim Vengerov, NDR Symphony Orchestra, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Verbier Festival Orchestra and Neeme Järvi, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and Andrey Boreyko, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Mikhail Pletnev, The Philadelphia Orchestra and Lawrence Foster, San Francisco Symphony and Jaap van Zweden, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris and Paavo Järvi, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Kirill Karabits, European Union Youth Orchestra and Vladimir Ashkenazy, and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Myung-whun Chung.

Ms. Buniatishvili has performed recitals in Amsterdam, Athens, Birmingham, Barcelona, Brussels, Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Cologne, Berlin, Hamburg, Rome, Florence, Prague, Warsaw, Paris, Stockholm, Vienna, Luxembourg, London, Singapore, and Vancouver. As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with Renaud Capuçon, Truls Mørk, and Sol Gabetta; in a trio with Gidon Kremer and Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė; and in a piano duo with her sister Gvantsa.

Recent tours have included performances with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica in Japan and Europe, Basel Chamber Orchestra, and in the US with the San Francisco Symphony under Vladimir Jurowski. Ms. Buniatishvili also gives concerts with London's Philharmonia Orchestra, Vienna Symphony, Orchestre de Paris, Swiss-Italian Radio Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Russian National Orchestra, and Munich Philharmonic. She performs in a trio with Gidon Kremer in Naples, Siena, Venice, Florence, and Berlin; and gives recitals in Paris, London, Munich, Stuttgart, Baden-Baden, Barcelona, Tokyo, Luxembourg, and Prague.

A BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist between 2009 and 2011, Ms. Buniatishvili regularly collaborates with BBC orchestras. She received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award (2010), was nominated by Vienna's Musikverein and Konzerthaus as a Rising Star (2011-2012 season), and won ECHO Klassik awards in 2012 and 2016. Ms. Buniatishvili's discography includes a trio recording with Gidon Kremer and Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė (EMC), a duo recital with Renaud Capuçon (Erato Records), and Chopin's Second Concerto with the Orchestre de Paris under Paavo Järvi, a recital recording of Liszt, Motherland, and Kaleidoscope (Sony Classical).