Nadezda Pisareva and Georgy Tchaidze began playing together as students of Sergey Dorensky at the Moscow Conservatory. Both went on to complete the Konzertexamen with Klaus Hellwig at the Universität der Künste Berlin. The duo performs for piano four hands and for two pianos and builds its programmes across both repertoires.
In 2017 the duo made its debut at the Oriental Art Center in Shanghai, followed by a sixteen-city tour of China with solo and duo programmes; in 2018 it returned for eleven cities. At the Konzerthaus Berlin the two pianists played works by Stravinsky for piano four hands at the 2019 festival Stravinsky Absolut! and returned in 2023 with a duo recital that included music by Stravinsky. In January 2026 they were the soloists in Malcolm Arnold’s Concerto for piano duet with the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, performed without conductor, in Wiesbaden and Bad Homburg.
L’Adoration de la terre
The duo’s debut album was released by GENUIN classics (GEN 26968) on 8 May 2026. It places Stravinsky’s own four-hand version of Le Sacre du printemps beside Debussy’s Six Épigraphes antiques and Bartók’s Két kép (Two Pictures) op. 10 in Zoltán Kocsis’s arrangement for two pianos – three works composed between 1910 and 1915. Between May and August 2026 the recording was reviewed in Germany, Luxembourg, Poland, Canada and the USA. Fono Forum devoted a double portrait to the duo in its July issue.
L’Adoration de la terre at GENUIN classics →
Press
“Here in particular, with the Pisareva-Tchaidze Duo’s perfectly synchronized rhythmic pulse and balanced dynamics, the music’s raw impulse comes through.”
Jean-Yves Duperron, Classical Music Sentinel, May 2026
„Die beiden widmen sich Strawinskys Klavierfassung mit klarem Blick, analytischer Präzision und gutem Timing.“
The two approach Stravinsky’s piano version with a clear view, analytical precision and good timing.
Guido Krawinkel, klassik-heute.com, 24 June 2026
„Als wahre Meister im ‚Orchestrieren‘ erweisen sich Nadezda Pisareva und Georgy Tchaidze …“
Nadezda Pisareva and Georgy Tchaidze prove themselves true masters of “orchestrating” …
THE PIANIST, issue 2/2026, July 2026
„Die Pianisten interpretieren Strawinskys Duo-Fassung seines ‚Le Sacre du Printemps‘ mit großer Bildhaftigkeit, Spannungsreichtum, aber auch entsprechender Härte.“
The pianists interpret Stravinsky’s duo version of Le Sacre du printemps with great pictorial power, a wealth of tension, and the hardness it calls for.
Helmut Peters, PIANO News, July/August 2026
„… eine enorm kraftvolle, leidenschaftliche und atemberaubend präzise Wiedergabe der Quatuor-mains-Fassung …“
… an enormously powerful, passionate and breathtakingly precise performance of the four-hand version …
kultur-port.de, 25 June 2026
“… after a while, listeners will not miss the orchestration, so effectively do the performers advocate for it in this form.”
InfoDad.com, 23 July 2026
“Their interpretation is marked by great transparency and refinement.”
Remy Franck, Pizzicato, 10 May 2026 (English version published by Pizzicato)
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