Biography
Saskia Giorgini (born 1985[1][2]) is an Italian-Dutch pianist who won the Salzburg International Mozart Competition in 2016. She made her debut at the Vienna Musikverein in February 2017 playing an all Mozart recital.[3][4] Her recording of Liszt’s Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses was released on the PENTATONE label in 2021 to great acclaim, winning a Diapason d’Or.
She has since released several recordings on PENTATONE: solo albums Liszt: Consolations (2023) and Debussy: Images (2024), and several albums with Ian Bostridge including Schubert – Die schöne Müllerin (2020), Respighi Songs (2021), and Twilight Schumann Songs (2025).
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Her most recent release (November 2025) is Mozart and Shostakovich, Concertos for Piano and Strings and Piano Sonata. In this album she performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A major (KV 414) in an intimate chamber music arrangement, Shostakovich’s Concerto No. 1 for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, and Shostakovich’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor.
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