Biography
« Elle est dans le son et dans la forme, dans la couleur et dans le dessin, dans l’instant et dans l’infini.
Saskia Giorgini chante, rêve et abolit le temps. »
Alain LompechSaskia Giorgini is an Italian pianist whose recordings and performances have been widely acclaimed by international critics.
Her recent albums for Pentatone: Images (Debussy), Consolations (Liszt), and Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (Liszt) have received two Diapason d’Or, a Gramophone Editor’s Choice, Gramophone Critics’ Choice (2024) (twice), BBC Music Magazine Instrumental Choice of the Month, and International Piano Recording of the Month:
“A superb recording… a miraculous experience… a major voice in the world of Liszt.”
— International Piano“La noblesse incarnée… la grande version moderne de ces recueils lisztiens.”
— DiapasonHer discography also includes an Enescu piano album and a Szymanowski recording with violinist Francesca Bonaita (Brilliant Classics). For Pentatone she has recorded Die schöne Müllerin (2020), Respighi Songs (2021), and Schumann Songs (2025) with tenor Ian Bostridge. Her most recent project, concertos by Mozart and Shostakovich with the Trondheim Soloists and Per Ivarsson, will be released in November 2025.
Winner of the International Mozart Competition Salzburg (2016), she appears regularly in recital and broadcast at major venues including the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall London, the Musikverein and Konzerthaus Vienna, the Mozarteum Salzburg, Seoul Arts Center, Suntory Hall Tokyo, the Warsaw Philharmonic, Teatro La Fenice Venice, and MiTo Settembre Musica.
She has performed with orchestras such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, the Łódź Philharmonic Orchestra, and the CBC Radio Orchestra, collaborating with conductors including Eliahu Inbal, Antonello Manacorda, Mario Bernardi, Andrea Battistoni, Massimiliano Caldi, Simon Gaudenz, and Hannu Lintu.
A dedicated chamber musician, she collaborates regularly with artists including Ian Bostridge, Julian Prégardien, Vilde Frang, Martin Fröst, Janine Jansen, Gilles Apap, Mario Brunello, and Thomas Demenga.
Recent and upcoming highlights include a residency at the Auditori de Barcelona (2026/27); appearances at the Enescu Festival with the Athens State Orchestra and Stefanos Tsialis; Mozart concertos with the Copenhagen Philharmonic; Grieg’s Piano Concerto with the Orchestra del Teatro Regio Torino; Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra; and solo recitals at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and Konzerthaus Wien.
Saskia Giorgini studied with Leonid Margarius, Enrico Pace, Elisso Virsaladze, and Pavel Gililov. She is regularly invited to serve on the juries of major international piano competitions, including the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition and the Liszt Utrecht Competition. She is a Bösendorfer Artist and since 2023 she has held a Professorship for Piano at the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität in Linz, Austria.