Sofia Narmania
Piano
Pianist Sofia Narmania displayed tremendous interest in music from an early childhood and started giving her first concerts at the age of seven.
At the age of ten she won great public acclaim playing Beethoven’s 2nd Piano Concerto and then she was invited to continue her music education in Moscow Pre-Conservatory college.
Her musical development was shaped by her studies at the Moscow Conservatoire and postgraduate,where she graduated with honors in the class of professor I. Plotnikova.
During her years of education Sofia appeared on the concert stage as a soloist with many orchestras, and gave several recitals in the main halls of Moscow and in other cities of Russian Federation.
As a soloist she performed the concertos of J.S.Bach, W.A.Mozart, L.Beethoven, S.Rachmaninov, P.Tchaikovsky, D.Shostakovich. Sofia has participated in numerous festivals and master classes with various renowned professors.
A winner of international competition in Italy (1st prize), she has performed in Greece, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Russia and Malta. Her extensive repertoire covers all musical periods and styles, she performs works by Scarlatti and Bach, Liszt and Rachmaninov, Ginastera and Piazolla.
In March 2014, she made a recording of works by modern Italian composer Federico Gozzelino.