Georgian pianist Salome Jordania has appeared as a recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist in cities across Germany, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Italy, Spain, Austria, Israel, Ukraine, the Netherlands, France, Russia, Mexico, and throughout the United States.

She has been invited to perform solo recitals at numerous international festivals, including the Texas International Piano Festival (USA); the Batumi International Piano Festival in Georgia; the Music for Peace Festival Gala in Moscow, where she appeared as a winner of their international competition; the Yamaha Rising Stars Concerts in Tokyo, Japan; the IKIF Rising Stars Series in New York City; Piano aux Jacobins in Toulouse; Les Grands Interprètes, Piano en Valois, L’esprit du Piano Festival in Bordeaux, and the Festival de Musique in Menton — all in France; the Georges Cziffra Festival in Vienna; the Chipping Campden Festival in the UK; Palazzetto Bru Zane in Venice; and the Gijón International Piano Festival in Spain, where she was the first recipient of the Dominique Webber Scholarship.

As a concerto soloist, Salome has collaborated with orchestras such as the Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra; Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi in Salerno, Italy; UAT Symphony in Mexico; SLO Symphony in California; Orquesta de Valencia in Spain; Orchestre de Picardie in France; UTC Symphony in Tennessee; the Batumi Philharmonic Orchestra; the Moscow Chamber Orchestra and the Moscow Virtuosi; Georgian Sinfonietta; the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra in Yerevan; the Potsdam Philharmonic Orchestra in Germany; and the Kharkiv Philharmonic Orchestra in Ukraine.

Salome was named the sole winner of the New York Concert Artists Competition, which led to her debut recital at Berlin’s Philharmonie Hall in March 2023, where she received warm critical acclaim.

She enjoys close collaborations with living composers. Her first collaborative CD was released in 2022 by NAXOS and features a two-piano work by Martin Matalon, recorded in Paris. She has worked with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Corigliano, performing Chiaroscuro at Lincoln Center’s AXIOM Festival, and has also collaborated with Jennifer Higdon at the Music Academy of the West in California, and with composer Gabriela Lena Frank.

Over the years, Salome has earned more than thirty prizes in international competitions, including the Norma Fischer Prize at the Wideman International Competition and First Prize at the Hartford Concerto Competition (USA). She received the Silver Medal at the International Keyboard Institute and Festival (IKIF) in New York, and the Bronze Medal at the José Iturbi International Piano Competition, where she also earned three special prizes for Best Performances of Mozart, Chopin, and the commissioned work. She became a laureate at the Étoiles du Piano Competition in France and additionally earned the Yamaha Prize and the EDHEC Audience Prize. She was also awarded the prestigious Georges Cziffra Award by the Cziffra Foundation in Vienna and was selected as a finalist for the Classeek Ambassador Programme, participating in its residency in Switzerland.

Born into a family of musicians — her father, a renowned conductor, and her late grandfather, also a celebrated conductor — Salome was raised in a deeply musical environment. She began her piano studies at the age of seven with Natalia Natsvlishvili in her native Tbilisi, Georgia. From a young age, she attracted attention for her artistry, winning numerous national and international competitions, including First Prize at the Tbilisi National Competition of Young Pianists, a top prize at the “Nutcracker” Competition in Moscow, and First Prize with multiple special distinctions at the Chopin National Competition in Georgia. After receiving First Prize at the Golden Key Competition in Frankfurt, she toured Germany as a soloist and as part of the chamber ensemble Kammerton. At the age of thirteen, she was awarded the title of “Cultural Ambassador of Georgia” by the Mayor of Tbilisi.

In addition to her performance career, Salome has served as a jury member at the International Piano Competition of Nataly Yeshchenko in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in both 2021 and 2023. She was also featured on prestigious ARTE channel with a segment devoted to Salome’s life, family, career and her passion for political activism and social justice, which was filmed in her homeland, Georgia.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Julian Martin, and a Master’s degree from the Yale School of Music, where she worked with Boris Berman and graduated with both the Charles S. Miller Prize and the Yale Alumni Prize. She recently completed the Artist Diploma program at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London under the guidance of Ronan O’Hora, as a recipient of the Steinway & Sons Scholarship.

Recent seasons have brought further artistic expansion, especially in her collaborations. She is now part of a trio "The Graces," based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and they have performances scheduled at multiple festivals, including the Grachten Piano Festival this summer and Settimane Musicali Internazionali in Italy. They recently appeared on NPO Klassiek Radio and the Podium Klassiek TV show. In 2025, Salome recorded an album with celebrated cellist Nina Kotova, to be released internationally, and made her debut at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Grand Hall with The Graces. She also made her debut at London’s Wigmore Hall in a duo recital with award-winning bassist Strahinja Mitrović, with whom she has a tour of concerts planned throughout the UK next season. Her highly anticipated debut solo album is scheduled for release in 2026 with the French label La Dolce Volta.