Since winning the International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in 2016 at the age of 20, Veriko Tchumburidze has earned a reputation as a captivating soloist, chamber musician and recording artist. "She is a breath of the future," said Andrzej Wituski, the director of the competition, "she brings us closer to the world of her own imagination." Andante, Turkey's leading classical music magazine, named her the country's best up-and-coming musician.
Tchumburidze was born into a Georgian family in Adana in southern Turkey and initially received her training at the State Conservatory of Mersin University under Selahattin Yunkus and Lily Tchumburidze. From 2010, she studied with Dora Schwarzberg at the MDW in Vienna as a scholarship holder of the Young Musicians on World Stages (YMWS) project. From 2015 to 2022, she continued her studies in the class of Prof. Ana Chumachenko at the Munich University of Music, where she has been completing her second master's degree in chamber music with Dirk Mommertz and Raphael Merlin since 2022. She also took part in masterclasses with Albert Markov, Shlomo Mintz and Igor Ozim and continued her training in Switzerland at the Seiji Ozawa Academy and the Verbier Festival Academy.
Highlights of the 2023/24 season include her debut with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra alongside Lionel Bringuier, the Orchestra of Padua and Veneto with Wolfram Christ and her first collaboration with the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra and Julia Jones. She will also be touring Italy with the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali under the direction of Riccardo Bisatti. Tchumburidze also performs chamber music and recitals in Turkey, Switzerland, Spain and Italy with her ensemble, Trio Vecando, and with pianist Ketevan Sepashvili, with whom she frequently performs.
In recent years, Tchumburidze has performed with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the NMF Wrocław, the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Sinfonia Varsovia, the Borusan Philarmonic Orchestra (opening of the Istanbul Music Festival), the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. She has worked with conductors such as Łukasz Borowicz, Ruben Gazarian, Sascha Goetzel, Howard Griffiths, Gemma New, Michael Sanderling, Andrey Boreyko, Aziz Shokhakimov and Dima Slobodeniouk.
Festivals she has played at include the Beethoven Easter Festival, the Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy, the Olympus Musical Festival, the Rosendal Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, where she has performed with Leif Ove Andsnes, Nicholas Angelich (†), Lisa Batiashvili, Gérard Caussé, Sol Gabetta, Clemens Hagen, Maxim Vengerov, Tabea Zimmermann and the Quatuor Ébène, among others.
An avid chamber musician, she collaborates in concert with pianists Ketevan Sepashvili and Mamikon Nakhapetov and was formerly a member of Trio Arte, a piano trio that won first prize at the 2016 Pietro Argento International Music Competition in Gioia del Colle, Italy. Also in 2016, "Ludus Modalis", a work dedicated to Trio Arte by the important Turkish composer Özkan Manav, was premiered at the Istanbul Music Festival. Since 2022, the violinist has been a member of the piano trio Trio Vecando, which she founded with two friends.
Tchumburidze has recorded Anton Wranitzky's Violin Concerto in C major with the Munich Chamber Orchestra and conductor Howard Griffiths for Sony Classical. Her recording of John Williams' film music for Schindler's List with Howard Griffiths conducting the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt for the Klanglogo label led to a headlining performance under the patronage of the Orpheum Foundation at the opening concert of the Zurich Film Festival 2016 in the Swiss city's opera house.
Since 2016, Veriko Tchumburidze has been playing a violin by Giambattista Guadagnini, which was built in Milan in 1756 and generously made available to her by the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.