Zlata Chochieva, Piano by Schumann, Chopin, Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Mendelssohn, Fra (2025/2025), Carnegie Hall, New York City, United States

A Carnegie Hall piano recital is one of music’s most celebrated traditions—an opportunity to experience the pure artistry of icons and rising stars alike. Zlata Chochieva now joins this esteemed lineage. Praised for “performances of huge emotional scope and intense drama” (The Guardian), Chochieva possesses a “poetic and pianistic command [that] could hardly go further” (Gramophone). In a program sure to please fans of the piano, she performs J. S. Bach as transcribed by Bartók; Robert Schumann’s dazzling Symphonic Etudes; Brahms’s propulsive, full-bodied Scherzo in E-flat Minor; and an enticing series of works and arrangements by Rachmaninoff, of whom Chochieva is a particularly acclaimed interpreter.