Famed for her virtuosity and what the Financial Times describes as her ‘profound insight’, Georgian-born violinist Lisa Batiashvili, who has been living in Germany for over 25 years, has built close and enduring relationships with some of the world’s leading orchestras.
During the 2017/18 season Lisa Batiashvili gave the UK premiere of Anders Hillborg’s Second Violin Concerto, which was written specially for her, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. She was also artist in residence at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and made her debut with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. She also toured Europe with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Staatskapelle Dresden and appeared with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Munich Philharmonic and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Last season Lisa Batiashvili was artist in residence with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and portrait artist with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. She collaborated for the first time with Gustavo Dudamel and Michael Tilson Thomas and gave concerts with Christian Thielemann, Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Simon Rattle.
Her recording of the Tchaikovsky and Sibelius violin concertos was released in November 2016 by Deutsche Grammophon.
Studying with Ana Chumachenco and Mark Lubotsky, Lisa Batiashvili gained international recognition as the youngest participant in the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition at the age of 16. She has won the MIDEM Classical Award, the Choc de l’année, the Premio Internazionale Accademia Musicale Chigiana and the Leonard Bernstein Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, as well as the Beethoven Ring in Bonn and instrumentalist of the year in 2015 from Musical America.
Lisa Batiashvili plays a violin by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù from 1739, which has been generously loaned by a private collector in Germany.
Current as of August 2018
