[1][2] Born in 1987 in Tbilisi, Georgia, Khatia Buniatishvili began studying piano under her mother at the age of three.

She gave her first concert with Tbilisi Chamber Orchestra when she was six and appeared internationally at age ten.

Between the ages of eleven and fifteen, she left school in Georgia to follow intensive training with the French pianist and pedagogue of Hungarian origin Michel Sogny at the Villa Schindler in Austria, where she studied Sogny’s innovative piano methodology.

[3] Her older sister, Gvantsa Buniatishvili, is also a pianist, and they have played together on numerous occasions.

The Guardian reported "This is playing straight from the heart from one of today's most exciting and technically gifted young pianists.