He has appeared at major festival venues in Salzburg, Vienna, Berlin, Mannheim, Florence, Lisbon, Beijing, Honolulu, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli International Piano Festival and Monte-Carlo Piano Masters, among others, and has performed as a recitalist throughout the world. His concerts often feature his own compositions and virtuoso transcriptions. After his performance of
Beethoven's
Emperor Concerto at WUK Kulturhaus, he was described in the Austrian press as "...a technically brilliant pianist imbued with a poignant lyricism and genuine profundity".
Classical Music magazine said his recording of
Debussy's
Préludes showed "...extraordinary imagination and a musical tone rarely heard". Latso composed the score for the film
Waltz-Fantasy for which he won an award at the
Bologna Film Festival in
Italy in 2000. His compositions also include
Variations on a Theme of J. S. Bach and
Cyber Moment for violin and piano, which was commissioned and world premiered by the composer in
Wigmore Hall,
London, in 2010. Among Latso's recordings are
Chopin's
24 Études,
24 Preludes and four
Scherzos; J. S. Bach's
Goldberg Variations;
Liszt's 12
Transcendental Études; and Debussy's
Préludes, Book 2. He has worked with musicians including
Ernest Fleischmann,
Christian Altenburger,
Gianluigi Gelmetti,
Jansug Kakhidze, David L. Wen, Irmina Trynkos, Friedrich Kleinhapl,
Ivo Pogorelić,
Yundi Li,
Freddy Kempf and
Joaquín Soriano. in
Teatro Colón,
Bogotá, in 2020 , Malaysia Latso gave several benefit concerts, including concerts held in the National Theater & Concert Hall,
Taipei City, Vienna Ehrbar Concert Hall,
Teatro Colón in Bogotá, Guido-Feger Concert Hall under the patronage of
Princess Marie Aglaë of Liechtenstein.
Volksblatt wrote: "Within the romantic repertoire you can with full justification call him a magnificent pianist and a magician of impeccable technique". Latso has recorded a CD of the complete works for piano and violin by composer
Ignatz Waghalter for
Naxos Records, with the London
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Irmina Trynkos and Alexander Walker. award at the Charles Dickens Dinner held at the historic Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown
Los Angeles, 2006 He has given broadcast performances on both radio and television in the United States, Europe, Asia and elsewhere. Latso was listed in the 65th edition of ''
Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in American Art'' 2011. Since 2011 he has been a member of
Pi Kappa Lambda. In 2012, he was invited by
Pope Benedict XVI to his residence in Vatican City to perform the
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 with the
Vienna Philharmonic at the
Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Latso made his debut at the
Berliner Philharmonie concert hall in Berlin in 2012, and debut at the
Slovak Philharmonic concert hall in
Bratislava in 2014. In 2013, he was invited by
Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein, to move to Vienna, where he resided until 2019. He gave masterclasses and lectures at universities nationwide. Latso regularly serves on competition jury panels and has been a conference artist for several music teachers associations. From 2015 to 2018 he was a guest professor at the
Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona, Spain. Latso has been giving masterclasses for years at some of the world’s most prestigious music schools including the Tchaikovsky
Moscow Conservatory,
Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts, the
Shanghai Conservatory of Music,
National University of Colombia Mozarteum University of Salzburg, Vienna Conservatory of Music,
Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu,
University of Southern California,
San Francisco Conservatory of Music,
Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the
Tokyo University of the Arts, etc. giving a charity concert supporting children with the oncological disease, Ehrbar Concert Hall,
Vienna, 2019 In 2013, Latso formed
the Latsos Piano Duo with his wife
Anna Fedorova-Latso. Since then, they have been performing four-hands piano recitals and concertos for two pianos worldwide as a piano duo and have appeared at musical centres and festivals as well as in scholarly conferences in Europe, Russia, America, and Asia. One of their concert presentation, held at the historic Doheny Estate & Gardens Beverly Hills as part of the
Music in the Mansion Series, was filmed by
Beverly Hills Warner Cable Television and live-streamed on BHTV10 Channel. The duo supports the mission of charities by organizing and performing
benefit concerts. They offer concert performances for
non-profit organizations and institutions that serve underprivileged communities, children with special needs, hospital patients, and the elderly. In May 2019 with
National Solidarity Fund and The Embassy of Georgia to the
Republic of Austria, they performed gala
charity concert supporting children and young people suffering from
oncological disease in Georgia. His 2020 performance with
National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia in
Teatro Colón was reviewed in the
Diario gratuito ADN Colombia as: "...his piano playing that combines technical wizardry with poetic lyricism sometimes sounds as mighty as the 100 member orchestra. Latsos' clarity of articulation, his warm, soft-grained tone, and his virtuosity was so formidable as to be unnoticeable." In April 2021 Latso was named an honorary Ambassador of the
Los Angeles Philharmonic International Committee. In 2022 he received
International Adjudicator Award 2022 at the Asia Pacific International Arts Festival, Book of Records, in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Latso's four-hand arrangement of "
The Stars and Stripes Forever" was published in 2023 and is protected by the
United States Copyright Office in Washington D.C. In 2024 Latso created the Amadeus International Foundation, a nonprofit charitable entity offering an intensive program of master classes, public concerts and audience forums, with the mission to recognize and nurture young and talented pianists. He has served as CEO and interim artistic director since founding the organization. ==Influences==