Her charm, her joy, and her talent — oh, yes! Most of all, our audience was entranced with her talent. (Get your tickets now while best seats are still available).
Zlata Chochieva wowed us in 2018 when she first appeared in the San Francisco Bay Area, and since then, her already illustrious career has skyrocketed. In fact, as we write this blog entry, her upcoming April 2025 solo debut at Carnegie Hall in New York is already sold out. We’re so excited to welcome her back to Steinway Society March 29, 2025 in a recital that is as beautiful and dramatic as she is.
Zlata Chochieva: A Journey of Emotions
WHEN: Saturday, March 29, 2025 @ 7:30 pm
WHERE: Visual and Performing Arts Center, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino (located at De Anza College)
TICKETS: Available only via Steinwaysociety.com
Why We Love Zlata
Zlata Chochieva delivers performances with “huge emotional scope and intense drama” (The Guardian). She made her stage debut at age five and gave her debut with an orchestra two years later, performing Mozart’s Concerto No. 17 at Grand Hall of Moscow State Conservatory (the school from which she graduated with distinction in 2012). She has played in the world’s leading concert halls as a soloist and with major orchestras. Along with an orchestral repertoire of over 50 concerti, Chochieva is a devoted chamber music performer.
“Im freien”, Chochieva’s most recent release for Naïve Records, was selected by Gramophone as an “Editor’s Choice” for June 2023. Her first recording for Naïve, “Chiaroscuro” (May 2022), a combination of Mozart and Scriabin, earned a Critic’s Choice in International Piano Magazine. Her “(re)creations” disc, recorded during the pandemic on Accentus (a collection of piano transcriptions by Rachmaninov, Liszt, and Friedman), won a prestigious German Record Critics’ Award.
Ms. Chochieva was born in Moscow and now resides in Berlin. A protege of Mikhail Pletnev at the Central Special Music School, she also studied with Pavel Nersessian at the Moscow State Conservatory. She completed her studies at Mozarteum University of Salzburg with Jacques Rouvier and was subsequently his assistant for several years.
Director of the International Festival and more
In 2018 Zlata established the International Festival at Rachmaninov’s estate in lvanovka and serves as its Director. In 2023 she performed and spoke about Rachmaninoff at his Villa Senar in a project titled ‘The Alchemy of the Piano’ by the German film producer Jan Schmidt-Garre. In January, 2025 she announced “I’m so delighted to share the incredible news that I have been appointed piano professor at the wonderful Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB / Haute école des arts de Berne HKB “
We consider ourselves very special to be her sponsor in Silicon Valley this year.
A Program of Beauty and Joy
Rachmaninoff, Selected Preludes from Op. 23
Rachmaninoff, Selected Preludes from Op. 32
Rachmaninoff, Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42
Mendelssohn-Rachmaninoff, Scherzo from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Tickets:
Adults: $78/$68/$58
Seniors/students: $73/$63/$53
Groups of 7 or more: $30 per ticket (contact office@steinwaysociety.com to arrange)
Student rush: $20 at the door, subject to availability
Box Office: 408.300.5635
All concerts are available as live performance or a high quality recording, available 5 p.m. the day after the concert for unlimited viewing for 48 hours.
