Giorgi Latso
Giorgi Latso is a GeorgianAmerican classical pianist, composer and doctor of musical arts. He has won piano competitions and received awards in many countries. His concerts have been broadcast on radio and television in Europe, Asia and America. He has been an American citizen since 2012.
Latso was born in Tbilisi where he started studying the piano at age six. He made his public debut at age eight. He was admitted at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire, where he eventually became a pupil of Rusudan Chodzava, who had studied under distinguished Russian pianist Alexander Goldenweiser. In 2004 he obtained masters degree at the Hochschule fr Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Later, Latso pursued doctoral studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles under mentoring of Stewart L. Gordon whose teacher was Walter Gieseking.
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