Steven Isserlis and Mikhail Pletnev perform Pletnev's Cello Sonata

The Tsinandali Festival is back for its sixth edition in 2024! Every year since 2019, the greatest performers, conductors, composers, and artists from all over the world have joined forces in the magnificent village of Tsinandali, in eastern Georgia, to promote music in this region at the crossroads of Europe and Asia — affording young musicians from the Caucasus the opportunity to study and perform with top-name artists, and offering audiences worldwide an unforgettable musical experience in an idyllic locale.

Our first concert from the 2024 Tsinandali Festival is a chamber music blockbuster, pairing virtuoso cellist Steven Isserlis with pianist-conductor extraordinaire Mikhail Pletnev. The duo performs Pletnev's own Cello Sonata, a piece written expressly for Isserlis in 2006 and full of gorgeous, classical Russian lyricism throughout.