
Violinist Lisa Batiashvili’s 2009–10 season includes concerts with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under Yannick Nezet Seguin; Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester with Franz Welser-Möst; Israel Philharmonic Orchestra with Zubin Mehta; and a return to the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (with Esa-Pekka Salonen). She also gives a series of recitals, including concerts at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Brussels’s Palais des Beaux Arts, and Paris’s Théâtre du Châtelet. She is featured every season with the world’s great orchestras, including, in the U.S., the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, and Philadelphia Orchestras; and in Europe the Berlin Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle, and Orchestre de Paris. Other regular relationships include the London, NHK, and Sydney symphony orchestras.
Chamber music is also an important part of Ms. Batiashvili’s schedule, and she appears regularly with festivals such as Salzburg, Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Marlboro, Tanglewood, Saratoga, Schleswig-Holstein, Schubertiade, and Kuhmo. Her chamber partners include pianists Adrian Brendel and Till Fellner, oboist Francois Leuleux, and violist Lawrence
Power. She has given the world premieres of three works in recent seasons, including Magnus Lindberg’s Violin Concerto, which she recorded for Sony together with the Sibelius Violin Concerto.
In 1995, at the age of 16, Lisa Batiashvili was awarded second prize in the Sibelius Competition in Helsinki. In 2001, as one of the first BBC “New Generation Artists.” In 2003 she was named winner of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival’s Leonard
Bernstein Award and was later awarded the Beethoven Ring Prize from the Beethoven Festival Bonn. In 2008 she was honored with the MIDEM Classical Award and the Choc de L’année for her debut album with Sony. The same year she received an ECHO Klassik award. Recently, she was the winner of the International Accademia Musicale Chigiana Prize in Siena.
Ms. Batiashivili has lived in Munich since 1994. She studied with Ana Chumachenko at the city's Musikhochschule, and previously, with Mark Lubotski at the Musikhochschule, Hamburg. She plays the 1709 “Engleman” Stradivarius, on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.
“Batiashvili’s playing is full of mood, poise and charisma.”
New York Times
“How fortunate it was that Lisa Batiashvili breathed life into every tone…she played. The young Georgian, unhindered by any technical difficulty, achieved a luminous intimacy, gripping and inspired, masterly and intelligent. A radiant debut.”
Der Tagesspiegel
“It’s been a while since a debut at Tanglewood created quite the sensation that Lisa Batiashvili, an unheralded violinist from Asian Georgia in her mid-20s, set off Friday night. The audience all but tore the place down.”
Berkshire Eagle/Tanglewood
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