"Music is born from silence" -Zlata Chochieva

PIanist Zlata Chochieva, of Ossetian descent, is winner of numerous awards, over a dozen competitions and has five highly-praised albums to her name. She appeared at the Miami International Piano Festival, the Gilmore Keyboard Festival, the festival «Progetto Martha Argerich» in Lugano, the Lucerne Festival, and the Berliner Klavierfestival.

Filmed in Berlin in May of 2021 at the b-sharp studios, she reflects with quietude and introversion on her days of intense study with her teacher, the living legend Mikhail Pletnev, as some of the happiest of her life, and what she learned about curiosity for life and a broader outlook on the world of stage. We ask her about what it took her to learn and prepare the Chopin Etudes on stage, and to be well with whatever happens in the moment.

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Running time 35 minutes • filmed in Berlin May 2021 • this episode was funded in part by you our viewers--thank you! Production by katalog-film.de

0:00 Opening quote and music excerpt (Mendelssohn-Rachmaninoff)
1:44 Title sequence
2:24 Start of conversation: Musical Background
5:02 Study with Mikhail Pletnev
11:50 Career flow, Competitions, Criticism
16:05 Repertoire
18:26 World of Stage, Preparing the Chopin Etudes for Performance
22:02 Rachmaninoff First Sonata
25:53 Work during the 2020-2021 period
30:07 Trusting One's Self, Inspirations
32:53 Closing Sequence and Credits