Zlata Chochieva

Pianist Zlata Chochieva was a student of Mikhail Pletnev and specializes in the music of Chopin and Rachmaninov. A modern-day representative of the grand Russian school, she records for the Naïve label. Chochieva was born on March 1, 1985, in Moscow. She is of Ossetian background, and in 2005, she became the youngest artist ever to win the Honored Artist of the Republic of North Ossetia - Alania award. Chochieva took up the piano at age four at the Flier Children's Music School in Moscow. Within a year, she was giving recitals and sight-reading Chopin's waltzes, and at eight,...