Lisa Batiashvili

Violin

Artiste étoiles of the Lucerne Festival 2024
Artist in Residence with the Orchestre de Paris 24/25
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Lisa Batiashvili is “Artiste étoile” of the Lucerne Festival 2024

Biography

Lisa Batiashvili, the Georgian-born German violinist, is praised by audiences and fellow musicians for her virtuosity. An award-winning artist, she has developed long-standing relationships with the world’s leading orchestras, conductors and musicians.
In 2021 Batiashvili formed and continues to lead the Lisa Batiashvili Foundation, which serves her lifelong dream and commitment in supporting young, highly talented Georgian musicians to thrive in their musical careers.

Following her time as resident artist of the Berliner Philharmoniker, she is now looking forward to an exciting 2024/25 season! Starting with appearances at the Lucerne Festival, including the Orchestre de Paris (Klaus Mäkelä), extended tours with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (Paavo Järvi), the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam (Klaus Mäkelä), the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Daniel Harding) and the London Symphony Orchestra (Antonio Pappano) will follow. She also returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Robin Ticciati), New York Philharmonic (Ivan Fischer) and the National Symphony Orchestra (Gianandrea Noseda), among others.

She gives concerts with Giorgi Gigashvili and Tsotne Zedginidze, two talented young Georgian pianists and composers who are supported by her foundation.
In summer 2025, Lisa Batiashvili returns to the stage with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and cellist Gautier Capuçon.
„Batiashvili’s fearless playing is so tonally rich and technically immaculate.”The Guardian, November 2017
Recording exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon, Batiashvili’s latest album Secret Love Letters was released in August 2022, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as Franck Sonata with Giorgi Gigashvili.

Her previous 2020 recording, City Lights, marks a musical journey that takes listeners around the world to eleven cities with an autobiographical connection with music ranging from Bach to Morricone, and Dvořák to Charlie Chaplin. A twelfth city was added in 2022 with the release of her single Desafinado, celebrating Rio de Janeiro. At the renowned Concert de Paris on Bastille Day in 2020 she performed the title track City Memories which was broadcast internationally.

An impressive discography also includes Visions of Prokofiev (Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Yannick Nézet-Séguin) which won an Opus Klassik Award and was shortlisted for the 2018 Gramophone Awards. Earlier recordings include the concertos of Tchaikovsky and Sibelius (Staatskapelle Berlin/Daniel Barenboim), Brahms (Staatskapelle Dresden/Christian Thielemann), and Shostakovich (Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Esa-Pekka Salonen).

Bastiashvili has had DVD releases of live performances with Berliner Philharmoniker/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Bartók’s Violin Concerto No.1) and with Gautier Capuçon, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and Christian Thielemann (Brahms’ Concerto for Violin and Cello).
„The key to Szymanowski’s concerto lies in its balance, the control of which was in the masterly hands of the violinist Lisa Batiashvili. She played the solo line like a seamless, lyrical song.”The Times, August 2022
She has won a number of awards: the MIDEM Classical Award, Choc de l’année, Accademia Musicale Chigiana International Prize, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival’s Leonard Bernstein Award and Beethoven-Ring. Batiashvili was named Musical America’s Instrumentalist of the Year in 2015, was nominated as Gramophone’s Artist of the Year in 2017, and in 2018 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Sibelius Academy (University of Arts, Helsinki).

Lisa was also Artistic Director of Audi Sommerkonzerte Ingolstadt for 4 years between 2019 and 2022. In 2025, she is honoured with the Kaiser Otto Prize of the city of Magdeburg for her commitment against war and anti-semitism and for promoting the European idea.

Lisa lives in Berlin and plays a Joseph Guarneri “del Gesu” from 1739, generously loaned by a private collector.

2024/2025
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Contacts: Arnold Simmenauer, Eleonore Wrobel

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Schedule

05/03/2025
19:30 h
Stadthalle Chemnitz
Chemnitz, Germany
Lisa Batiashvili, François Leleux, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie
06/03/2025
19:00 h
Stadthalle Chemnitz
Chemnitz, Germany
Lisa Batiashvili, François Leleux, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie
13/03/2025
19:30 h
Lisa Batiashvili, Alexander Liebreich, Orquestra de València
13/04/2025
19:00 h
Barbican Hall
London, United Kingdom
Lisa Batiashvili, Gianandrea Noseda, London Symphony Orchestra
25/04/2025
19:30 h
Lisa Batiashvili, Ivan Fischer, New York Philharmonic
26/04/2025
19:30 h
Lisa Batiashvili, Ivan Fischer, New York Philharmonic
27/04/2025
14:00 h
Lisa Batiashvili, Ivan Fischer, New York Philharmonic
01/05/2025
19:00 h
Lisa Batiashvili, Gianandrea Noseda, National Symphony Orchestra Washington
02/05/2025
11:30 h
Lisa Batiashvili, Gianandrea Noseda, National Symphony Orchestra Washington
03/05/2025
20:00 h
Lisa Batiashvili, Gianandrea Noseda, National Symphony Orchestra Washington
14/05/2025
20:00 h
Lisa Batiashvili, François Leleux, Roberto González-Monjas, Orchestre de Paris
15/05/2025
20:00 h
Lisa Batiashvili, François Leleux, Roberto González-Monjas, Orchestre de Paris
22/05/2025
19:00 h
Barbican Hall
London, United Kingdom
Lisa Batiashvili, Sir Antonio Pappano, London Symphony Orchestra
25/05/2025
19:00 h
Barbican Hall
London, United Kingdom
Lisa Batiashvili, Sir Antonio Pappano, London Symphony Orchestra
27/05/2025
19:30 h
Lisa Batiashvili, Sir Antonio Pappano, London Symphony Orchestra
28/05/2025
19:30 h
Lisa Batiashvili, Sir Antonio Pappano, London Symphony Orchestra
29/05/2025
20:00 h
Lisa Batiashvili, Sir Antonio Pappano, London Symphony Orchestra
30/05/2025
19:30 h
Kulturpalast am Altmarkt
Dresden, Germany
Lisa Batiashvili, Sir Antonio Pappano, London Symphony Orchestra
01/06/2025
20:00 h
Kölner Philharmonie
Köln, Germany
Lisa Batiashvili, Sir Antonio Pappano, London Symphony Orchestra
02/06/2025
20:00 h
Alte Oper Frankfurt, Großer Saal
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Lisa Batiashvili, Sir Antonio Pappano, London Symphony Orchestra
03/06/2025
20:00 h
Lisa Batiashvili, Sir Antonio Pappano, London Symphony Orchestra
05/06/2025
20:00 h
Lisa Batiashvili, Sir Antonio Pappano, London Symphony Orchestra
08/06/2025
20:00 h
Lisa Batiashvili, Sir Antonio Pappano, London Symphony Orchestra
09/06/2025
20:30 h
Lisa Batiashvili, Sir Antonio Pappano, London Symphony Orchestra
22/06/2025
19:30 h
Regentenbau, Max-Littmann-Saal
Bad Kissingen, Germany
Lisa Batiashvili, Gautier Capuçon, Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Discography

Secret Love Letters
Doppelkonzert / Romeo and Juliet / les Préludes [Semperoper Dresden, 2016]
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence
The White Crow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Visions of Prokofiev
Tchaikovsky / Sibelius
Tchaikovsky: Pathétique
Brahms / Clara Schumann
Echoes Of Time
Beethoven / Tsintsadze
Oboe Quintet Arias From Magic Flute
Sibelius / Lindberg

Videos

City Lights Feat. Katie Melua, Till Brönner & Miloš
European Concert in Tsinandali - Berliner Philharmoniker / Brahms Violin concerto

Contact

Arnold Simmenauer
Managing Director
t: +49 (0)30 414 781 724
Eleonore Wrobel
Head of Operations
t: +49 (0)30 414 781 725