He has appeared at major festival venues in Salzburg, Vienna, Berlin, Mannheim, Florence, Lisbon, Beijing, Honolulu, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli International Piano Festival and Monte-Carlo Piano Masters, among others, and has performed as a recitalist throughout the world.[12][13][14] His concerts often feature his own compositions and virtuoso transcriptions.
After his performance of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto at WUK Kulturhaus, he was described in the Austrian press as "...a technically brilliant pianist imbued with a poignant lyricism and genuine profundity."[15] England Rhinegold Classical Magazine said his recording of Debussy's Préludes showed "...extraordinary imagination and a musical tone rarely heard.
Latso composed the score for the film Waltz-Fantasy for which he won an award at the Bologna Film Festival in Italy in 2000.[16] His compositions also include Variations on a Theme of J. S. Bach and Cyber Moment for violin and piano, which was commissioned and world premiered by the composer in Wigmore Hall, London in 2010.[17]
Latso gave several benefit concerts, including concerts held in the National Theater & Concert Hall, Taipei City, Vienna Ehrbar Concert Hall, Teatro Colón in Bogota, Guido-Feger Concert Hall[19] under the patronage of Princess Marie Aglaë of Liechtenstein. Volksblatt wrote: "Within the romantic repertoire you can with full justification call him a magnificent pianist and a magician of impeccable technique".[20]
Giorgi Latso receives American philanthropist Carol Colburn Grigor award at the Charles Dickens Dinner held at the historic Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, 2006
The Latsos giving a charity concert supporting children with the oncological disease, Ehrbar Concert Hall, Vienna, 2019
In 2013, Latso formed The Latsos Piano Duo[39] with his wife Anna Fedorova-Latso. Since then, they have been performing four-hands piano recitals and concertos for two pianos worldwide as a piano duo and have appeared at musical centres and festivals as well as in scholarly conferences in Europe, Russia, America, and Asia. One of their concert presentation, held at the historic Doheny Estate & Gardens Beverly Hills as part of the Music in the Mansion Series, was filmed by Beverly Hills Warner Cable Television and live-streamed on BHTV10 Channel.[40][41] The duo supports the mission of charities by organizing and performing benefit concerts. They offer concert performances for non-profit organizations and institutions that serve underprivileged communities, children with special needs, hospital patients, and the elderly. In May 2019 with National Solidarity Fund and The Embassy of Georgia to the Republic of Austria, they performed gala charity concert supporting children and young people suffering from oncological disease in Georgia.[42]
His 2020 performance with National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia in Teatro Colón was reviewed in the Diario gratuito ADN Colombia as: ″...his piano playing that combines technical wizardry with poetic lyricism sometimes sounds as mighty as the 100 member orchestra. Latsos' clarity of articulation, his warm, soft-grained tone, and his virtuosity was so formidable as to be unnoticeable.″[43][44]
In April 2021 Giorgi Latso was named an honorary Ambassador of the Los Angeles Philharmonic International Committee.[45][46] In 2022 he received International Adjudicator Award 2022 at the Asia Pacific International Arts Festival, Book of Records, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
In 2024 he created Amadeus International Foundation, a nonprofit charitable entity [48] offering an intensive program of master classes, public concerts and audience forums, with the mission to recognize and nurture young and talented pianists. He been serving as CEO and interim artistic director since founding the organization.
Influences
Latso has mentioned the following pianists as having inspired him: "Of those whom I heard on the stage, I'd like to name first of all Maria João Pires. Judging by the records, it was Rachmaninoff, Sofronitsky, and Lipatti. As to aesthetics, I feel most close to Vladimir Horowitz."[49]
Honors & Awards
Yehudi Menuhin Federation Competition in Salzburg, Austria
Young Artist International Piano Competition in Los Angeles
International Adjudicator Award, Malaysia Gold Award Ceremony 2022, Book of Records, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in October 2022
Steinway Ensemble Artist designation conferred by Steinway & Sons, New York City [59] August, 2023
Teaching career
Latso conducting a masterclasses on January 26th 2024 at Steinway & Sons in Shanghai, China, third-largest global operational center after the STEINWAY factories in New York and Hamburg.[60]Collegiate Masterclasses at the National State Conference for Utah Music Teachers Association (2022).Giorgi Latso giving a Masterclasses at the Moscow Conservatory, (2017).
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^Naxos records (20 June 2020). "Giorgi Latso". Retrieved 20 June 2020.
^Hans Courtial, L'Arte salva l'Arte (2012), Festival Internazionale di Musica e Arte Sacra, Roma e Vaticano, Rome. Retrieved 9 December 2012 (in Italian)
^Lammer, Bernhard:, analyzes and discussions from the abstract "Die Wiederkehr des Künstlers", (1 June 2013), vol. 2, no. 6, pp.59-68. Vienna, Austria. Retrieved 3 August 2013