At the 17th International Santander Piano Competition 'Paloma O'Shea' in 2012, she thrilled her audience as the winner of the Third Prize ex aequo and the Sony Audience Award. She had previously won the 'Neue Sterne' International Piano Competition in Wernigerode (Germany) in 2010 and the International Piano Competition in Tbilisi (Georgia) in 2005.
In 2014, Tamar Beraia made her debut with her CD 'Portrait' (eaSonus). She built on this success with her 2018 CD of works by Beethoven and Liszt (Avi-music). The Bayer Cultural Department supported Tamar Beraia from 2015 to 2018 as part of the stART program.
Her intensive concert schedule has taken her to Denmark, Germany (Konzerthaus Berlin), France, Georgia, Great Britain (London Wigmore Hall), Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland (Casino Bern), Spain, Ukraine, the Czech Republic and the USA.
In June 2021, she took over the solo piano part of the dance project 'Piano Chapters', realized by renowned choreographers, at the Stadttheater Bern.
In 2022 she released the piano duo CD (Sound Orbit) with her sister Natia Beraia with works for four hands.
Tamar Beraia was born in Tbilisi (Georgia) in 1987. She received her first piano lessons from her mother at the age of five and then studied at the music school for gifted children 'Z.Paliaschwili' with Dodo Tsintsadze and at the State Conservatory with Nana Khubutia. She rounded off her training with a master's degree in solo performance at the Lucerne University of Music with Ivan Klánský. Already as a child she won first prizes at the international piano competitions "Balys Dvarionas" (Lithuania, 1997) and "Heinrich Neuhaus" (Russia, 2000). She received scholarships from the Mikael Tariverdiev Foundation and the pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja. She has been playing four-hands and repertoire for two pianos with her sister since her youth.
Program:
Frederic Chopin: Sonata in B minor op. 58
Robert Schumann: Arabesque in C major op. 18
Michel Sogny: Three pieces in Hungarian style (Edition Durant)
Johannes Brahms: Two Rhapsodies op. 79 in B minor, G minor
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