Bolzano Festival Bozen 2026 - Sandro Nebieridze - Lunch Concert

As part of the Bolzano Festival Bozen, the Busoni Piano Competition presents a series of concerts bridging the world of competition and the beginnings of an international career. Alongside the prize winners of the 65th edition – Yifan Wu, Sandro Nebieridze and Zhonghua Wei – the series also features young pianists who have triumphed at international competitions affiliated with the World Federation of International Music Competitions.

This Lunch Concert belongs to Sandro Nebieridze, recipient of the Junior Jury Prize at the 65th Busoni Competition 2025. His programme weaves together the Romantic and late-Romantic piano tradition with a work of his own: Rachmaninoff's Variations on a Theme of Corelli and Mompou's Variations on a Theme of Chopin frame Nebieridze's own Esquisses, while Busoni's transcription of Bach's Chorale Prelude Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland opens the recital – a nod to one of the festival's namesakes.

Programme:

Johann Sebastian Bach – Ferruccio Busoni: Chorale Prelude No. 3, Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659

Sergei Rachmaninoff – Variations on a Theme of Corelli, op. 42

Sandro Nebieridze – Esquisses

Frédéric Mompou – Variations on a Theme of Chopin

Piano: Sandro Nebieridze