“All the impressive attributes of her playing were present here: a plush, shimmering, beautifully focused sound; impeccable intonation; rhythmic integrity; a winning combination of elegance and impetuosity.”
– New York Times, March 2011
Few young soloists command the degree of warmth and respect from fellow musicians all over the world as violinist Lisa Batiashvili. She is featured season after season with many of the world's greatest orchestras. In the US she performs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony and Philadelphia orchestras. In Europe she works with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden and the Orchestre de Paris.
In the 2011/12 season Lisa Batiashvili performs with The Cleveland Orchestra (with Franz Welser-Möst), New York Philharmonic (with Alan Gilbert), NHK Symphony Orchestra (with Charles Dutoit) and Sydney Symphony (with Vladimir Ashkenazy). Further highlights include a European tour with Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (with Sakari Oramo), concerts with London Philharmonic and Rotterdam Philharmonic orchestras (both with Yannick Nézet-Séguin), Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and Orchestre National de France (with David Zinman). She also returns to NDR Sinfonieorchester (with Thomas Hengelbrock), Bamberger Symphoniker (with Jonathan Nott), and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (with Yuri Temirkanov).
Lisa Batiashvili has an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon. Her debut album for the label, released in February 2011, includes Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Chamber music has always played an important part in Lisa's schedule, with invitations from festivals such as Salzburg, Edinburgh International, Aldeburgh, Tanglewood, Schleswig-Holstein and Verbier. This season she tours as part of a quartet with François Leleux, Lawrence Power and Sebastian Klinger including concerts in Antwerp, Paris, Vienna and Neumarkt. Other regular chamber music partners are Adrian Brendel and Till Fellner. Lisa's commitment to new music has seen her give several world premieres in recent seasons, including Magnus Lindberg's Violin Concerto, Nicolas Bacri’s Double Concerto for Violin, Oboe and Chamber Orchestra as well as his Capriccio for 3 Violins and Orchestra.
In 1995, as the youngest ever competitor aged 16, Lisa was awarded second prize in the Sibelius Competition in Helsinki. In 2003 she was named winner of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival's Leonard Bernstein Award and was later awarded the Beethoven Ring Prize from the Beethoven Festival Bonn. In 2008 Lisa was honoured with the MIDEM Classical Award and the Choc de L'année for her Sony recording of Sibelius and Lindberg’s Violin Concertos. The same year she received an ECHO Klassik award. She was recently announced as the winner of the prestigious International Accademia Musicale Chigiana Prize in Siena.
Lisa studied with Professor Ana Chumachenko at Hamburg's Musikhochschule, having previously worked with Professor Mark Lubotski. She plays the 1709 Engleman Stradivarius kindly loaned by the Nippon Music Foundation.
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