Georgian musician (born 1979)
Musical artist
Elisabeth Batiashvili (
Georgian : ელისაბედ ბათიაშვილი ; born 7 March 1979), professionally known as Lisa Batiashvili , is a prominent
Georgian
violinist active across Europe and the United States. A former
New York Philharmonic artist-in-residence, she is acclaimed for her "natural elegance, silky sound and the meticulous grace of her articulation".
[1] Batiashvili makes frequent appearances at high-profile international events; she was the violin soloist at the 2018
Nobel Prize concert.
[2]
Early life and education
Batiashvili was born in
Tbilisi , the capital of Georgia, to a violinist father and a
pianist mother. She began learning violin with her father from age four. The family left Georgia in 1991 when she was 12 years old, and settled in Germany.
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[4] She later studied at the
Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg .
Mark Lubotsky , her teacher in Hamburg, had been a student of
David Oistrakh , for whom Shostakovich wrote his violin concertos.
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[6] Later, Lisa Batiashvili also studied with
Ana Chumachenco .
In 1995, aged 16, she placed 2nd at the
International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki.
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Career
Performances
Batiashvili was one of the first of the
BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists , from 1999 to 2001. She has collaborated in
chamber music and concerto performances with cellist
Alban Gerhardt and pianist
Steven Osborne , both BBC New Generation Artists exactly contemporary with Batiashvili.
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[12] She has also worked with a later BBC New Generation Artist,
Ashley Wass , in recital.
[13] She made her BBC Proms debut in 2000.
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Dedications and commissions
Magnus Lindberg dedicated a violin concerto to her, the world premiere of which she gave at
Avery Fisher Hall , New York, on 22 August 2006 and European premiere in Sweden in October.
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[17] Batiashvili and her husband, oboist
François Leleux , commissioned from the Georgian composer
Giya Kancheli the double concerto Broken Chant , which they premiered in February 2008 with the
BBC Symphony Orchestra in London.
[18] She also commissioned a solo violin encore from her compatriot Igor Loboda for solo violin, "Requiem for Ukraine", which was meant to be a statement against conductor
Valery Gergiev 's cozy relationship with the regime of
Vladimir Putin .
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Artist in residence
Batiashavili became artist-in-residence with the
New York Philharmonic for the 2014/15 season, and with the
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia for the 2017/18 season.
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[20] In parallel, she has an artist residency with the
NDR Symphony Orchestra .
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Commercial recordings
Her commercial recordings include
Magnus Lindberg 's
Violin Concerto No. 1 as part of her recording contract with Sony Classical, which she signed in 2007. And more recently, she has recorded several albums with Deutsche Grammophon, including in 2016, an album of the Tchaikovsky and Sibelius Violin Concertos and in 2017, an album of Prokofiev's works including his Violin Concertos 1 and 2.
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Instrument
She plays a 1739
Guarneri del Gesu violin (
Cozio 61377 ) lent to her from the private collection of an anonymous German collector.
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Private life
Batiashvili is married to French
oboist
François Leleux . They have resided in both
Munich and France with their two children.
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Discography
2001: Works For Violin & Piano – Elizabeth Batiashvili performs works by
Brahms ,
Bach ,
Schubert . Published by
EMI Classics 2001.
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2007: European Concert from Berlin –
Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sir
Simon Rattle . Including
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 ; &
Double Concerto op. 102 performed by Batiashvili (violin) and
Truls Mørk (cello). Published by EuroArt, 1 May 2007.
[23]
2007: Sibelius / Lindberg – Lisa Batiashvili and the
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by
Sakari Oramo : Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto &
Magnus Lindberg
Violin Concerto No. 1 . Published by
Sony Classical , 10 September 2007.
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2008: Mozart – Mozart's Oboe Quartet in F, K370, and 3 Arias from The Magic Flute. Performed by Francois Leleux, Lisa Batiashvili, Laurence Power and Sebastian Klinger. Published by Sony Classical, 16 December 2008.
[26]
2009: Beethoven / Tsintsadze – Lisa Batiashvili (Violin and directing),
Beethoven
Violin Concerto &
Sulkhan Tsintsadze , 6 Miniatures. Published by
Sony Classical , 3 March 2009.
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2011: Echoes of Time – works by
Arvo Pärt ,
Sergei Rachmaninoff ,
Giya Kancheli and
Dmitri Shostakovich , with
Hélène Grimaud and the
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under
Esa-Pekka Salonen . Published by
Deutsche Grammophon , 15 February 2011.
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2013: Brahms & Clara Schumann –
Brahms: Violin Concerto &
Clara Schumann –
Three Romances for Violin and Piano .
Staatskapelle Dresden under
Christian Thielemann ;
Alice Sara Ott and Lisa Batiashvili. Published by
Deutsche Grammophon , 8 January 2013.
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2013: Tchaikovsky: Pathétique –
Tchaikovsky Symphonie No. 6 Pathétique , and Selected Romances – Opus 6 and Opus 73.
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by
Yannick Nézet-Séguin . Published by
Deutsche Grammophon , 20 September 2013.
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2014: Bach – Lisa Batiashvili plays works by
Johann Sebastian Bach and
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach . Published by
Deutsche Grammophon , 16 September 2014.
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2016: Tchaikovsky / Sibelius – Lisa Batiashvili plays
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto &
Sibelius Violin Concerto with the
Staatskapelle Berlin under
Daniel Barenboim . Published by Deutsche Grammophon, 4 November 2016.
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2016:
Waldbühne – Czech Night – Lisa Batiashvilli's live performance with the
Berlin Philharmonic , conducted by
Yannick Nézet-Séguin , works by
Antonín Dvořák and
Bedřich Smetana . Published by EuroArt.
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2018: Visions of Prokofiev – Violin Concertos 1&2, and excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, and the Love for Three Oranges. Published by
Deutsche Grammophon .
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In addition, a variety of recordings of modern music, including
Benjamin Britten ,
Harrison Birtwistle ,
Olli Mustonen and
Ernst von Dohnányi
References
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a
b
c Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim
Politics Is Personal, and Professional: Lisa Batiashvili on Violins, Ukraine and Valery Gergiev , The
New York Times , 31 January 2015
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Lisa Batiashvili, violin, soloist at the 2018 Nobel Prize Concert , Retrieved: 3 January 2019
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a
b
"Biography" . Lisabatiashvili.com . Retrieved 16 October 2019 .
^ Peter Culshaw (21 July 2007).
"Lisa Batiashvili went from Tbilisi to the top" .
The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 28 March 2015 .
^ Michael Church (5 December 2005).
"Preview: Lisa Batiashvili, Wigmore Hall, London" .
The Independent .
Archived from the original on 14 June 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2007 .
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a
b
c
"Deutsche Grammophon, 2011, Echoes of Time Lisa Batiashvili plays Arvo Pärt, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Giya Kancheli and Dmitri Shostakovich. Batiashvili with Hélène Grimaud and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen" . Deutschegrammophon.com . Retrieved 16 October 2019 .
^
a
b
"Works For Violin And Piano" . Amazon.co.uk . 4 June 2001. Retrieved 16 October 2019 .
^ Erica Jeal (11 September 2001).
"Prom 66: BBCSSO/ Vanska" .
The Guardian . Retrieved 21 March 2007 .
^ David Fanning (11 September 2001).
"Soloists do what comes naturally" .
The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 28 March 2015 .
^ Martin Anderson (12 September 2001).
"Prom 65, 66, Royal Albert Hall, London" .
The Independent . Archived from
the original on 24 January 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2007 .
^ David Fanning (2 September 2002).
"Edinburgh reports: panache and authority" .
The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 28 March 2015 .
^ Matthew Rye (6 June 2003).
"Explosive coupling" .
The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 28 March 2015 .
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Geoffrey Norris (6 June 2001).
"Playing with fire" .
The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 28 March 2015 .
^ Rob Cowan (16 August 2000).
"Sublime performance from Batiashvili" .
The Independent .
Archived from the original on 14 June 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2007 .
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"Magnus Lindberg – Violin Concerto No.1" . Boosey.com . Retrieved 16 October 2019 .
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Allan Kozinn (24 August 2006).
"At Mostly Mozart, Mostly Magnus, in a Concerto and Chamber Pieces" .
The New York Times . Retrieved 22 March 2007 .
^ Hilary Finch (11 October 2006).
"Magnus Lindberg Premiere" .
The Times . Retrieved 21 March 2007 .
^ Annette Morreau (25 February 2008).
"BBC SO/Bringuier, Barbican, London" .
The Independent .
Archived from the original on 14 June 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2009 .
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"Lisa Batiashvili" . Santacecilia.it . Retrieved 10 December 2017 .
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"Lisa Batiashvili, this season's Artist in Residence with Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, speaks up for music's power to heal divisions and unite" . Classicalsource.com . 27 September 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2017 .
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a
b Verena Fischer-Zernin (9 September 2014).
"Ich fühle mich verantwortlich für Georgien" .
Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 28 March 2015 .
^ Kevin Shihoten (6 July 2007).
"Sony BMG Masterworks Signs Violinist Lisa Batiashvili" . Playbillarts.com . Retrieved 10 July 2007 .
^
"2007 European Concert from Berlin with Simon Rattle, Lisa Batiashvili and Truls Mørk" . Digital Concert Hall . Retrieved 16 October 2019 .
^ Sibelius, Lindberg Violin Concertos : xiao ti qin xie zou qu = xi bei liu shi , 2007,
OCLC
906201891
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"Sibelius / Lindberg" . Lisabatiashvili.com . Retrieved 16 October 2019 .
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"Oboe Quintet Arias From Magic Flute" . Lisabatiashvili.com . Retrieved 16 October 2019 .
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"Beethoven – Violin Concerto / Tsintsadze – Miniatures" . Amazon.co.uk . 1 September 2008. Retrieved 16 October 2019 .
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"Beethoven / Tsintsadze" . Lisabatiashvili.com . Retrieved 16 October 2019 .
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"Lisa Batiashvili, Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks*, Esa-Pekka Salonen – Echoes Of Time" . Discogs.com . Retrieved 16 October 2019 .
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"Echoes Of Time" . Lisabatiashvili.com . Retrieved 16 October 2019 .
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"Johannes Brahms / Clara Schumann by Lisa Batiashvili & Staatskapelle Dresden & Christian Thielemann & Alice Sara Ott on Amazon Music – Amazon.co.uk" . Amazon.co.uk . Retrieved 16 October 2019 .
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"Brahms / Clara Schumann" . Lisabatiashvili.com . Retrieved 16 October 2019 .
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"Tchaikovsky: Pathétique" . Lisabatiashvili.com . Retrieved 16 October 2019 .
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Deutsche Grammophon, 2014, Lisa Batiashvili, Johann Sebastian Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach .
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"Bach" . Lisabatiashvili.com . Retrieved 16 October 2019 .
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"Tchaikovsky* ∙ Sibelius*, Lisa Batiashvili ∙ Daniel Barenboim, Staatskapelle Berlin – Violin Concertos" . Discogs . Retrieved 16 October 2019 .
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"Tchaikovsky / Sibelius" . Lisabatiashvili.com . Retrieved 16 October 2019 .
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"A Czech evening at the Waldbühne" . Digital Concert Hall . Retrieved 16 October 2019 .
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"Berliner Philharmoniker, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Lisa Batiashvili – Waldbühne Czech Night" . Discogs . Retrieved 16 October 2019 .
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"Catalogue" . Deutschegrammophon.com . Retrieved 16 September 2020 .
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