Lisa Batiashvili
Background information
Born	(1979-03-07)7 March 1979 (age 46) Tbilisi,Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Genres	Chamber music,classical music
Occupation	Musician
Instrument	Violin
Labels	Sony Classical/SME,Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Classics
Website	lisabatiashvili.com

Elisabeth Batiashvili (Georgian:ელისაბედ ბათიაშვილი; born 7 March 1979), professionally known asLisa Batiashvili, is a prominentGeorgianviolinist active across Europe and the United States. A formerNew 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 2018Nobel Prize concert.^[2]

Batiashvili was born inTbilisi, the capital of Georgia, to a violinist father and apianist 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.^[3][4] She later studied at theHochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.Mark Lubotsky, her teacher in Hamburg, had been a student ofDavid Oistrakh, for whom Shostakovich wrote his violin concertos.^[5][6] Later, Lisa Batiashvili also studied withAna Chumachenco.

In 1995, aged 16, she placed 2nd at theInternational Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki.^[7]

Batiashvili was one of the first of theBBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists, from 1999 to 2001. She has collaborated inchamber music and concerto performances with cellistAlban Gerhardt and pianistSteven Osborne, both BBC New Generation Artists exactly contemporary with Batiashvili.^{[8][9][10][11][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.^[14]

Magnus Lindberg dedicated a violin concerto to her, the world premiere of which she gave atAvery Fisher Hall, New York, on 22 August 2006 and European premiere in Sweden in October.^[15][16][17] Batiashvili and her husband, oboistFrançois Leleux, commissioned from the Georgian composerGiya Kancheli the double concertoBroken Chant, which they premiered in February 2008 with theBBC 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 conductorValery Gergiev's cozy relationship with the regime ofVladimir Putin.^[1]

Batiashavili was artist-in-residence with theNew York Philharmonic for the 2014/15 season, and with theAccademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia for the 2017/18 season.^[19][20] In parallel, she has an artist residency with theNDR Symphony Orchestra.^[21] She has been the artist in Residence with theBerlin Philharmonic for the 2023–24 season.^[22]

Her commercial recordings includeMagnus Lindberg'sViolin 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.^[23]

She plays a 1739Guarneri del Gesu violin (Cozio 61377) lent to her from the private collection of an anonymous German collector.^[1]

She is foreign member of theRoyal Swedish Academy of Music.^[24]

Batiashvili is married to FrenchoboistFrançois Leleux. They have resided in bothMunich and France with their two children.^[21][6]

• 2001:Works For Violin & Piano – Elizabeth Batiashvili performs works byBrahms,Bach,Schubert. Published byEMI Classics 2001.^[7]
• 2007:European Concert from Berlin –Berlin Philharmonic conducted by SirSimon Rattle. IncludingBrahms: Symphony No. 4; &Double Concerto op. 102 performed by Batiashvili (violin) andTruls Mørk (cello). Published by EuroArt, 1 May 2007.^[25]
• 2007:Sibelius / Lindberg – Lisa Batiashvili and theFinnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted bySakari Oramo: Jean SibeliusViolin Concerto &Magnus LindbergViolin Concerto No. 1. Published bySony Classical, 10 September 2007.^[26][27]
• 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.^[28]
• 2009:Beethoven / Tsintsadze – Lisa Batiashvili (Violin and directing),BeethovenViolin Concerto &Sulkhan Tsintsadze, 6 Miniatures. Published bySony Classical, 3 March 2009.^[29][30]
• 2011:Echoes of Time – works byArvo Pärt,Sergei Rachmaninoff,Giya Kancheli andDmitri Shostakovich, withHélène Grimaud and theBavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra underEsa-Pekka Salonen. Published byDeutsche Grammophon, 15 February 2011.^[6][31][32]
• 2013:Brahms & Clara Schumann –Brahms: Violin Concerto &Clara Schumann –Three Romances for Violin and Piano.Staatskapelle Dresden underChristian Thielemann;Alice Sara Ott and Lisa Batiashvili. Published byDeutsche Grammophon, 8 January 2013.^[33][34]
• 2013:Tchaikovsky: Pathétique –Tchaikovsky Symphonie No. 6Pathétique, and Selected Romances – Opus 6 and Opus 73.Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra conducted byYannick Nézet-Séguin. Published byDeutsche Grammophon, 20 September 2013.^[35]
• 2014:Bach – Lisa Batiashvili plays works byJohann Sebastian Bach andCarl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Published byDeutsche Grammophon, 16 September 2014.^[36][37]
• 2016:Tchaikovsky / Sibelius – Lisa Batiashvili playsTchaikovsky Violin Concerto &Sibelius Violin Concerto with theStaatskapelle Berlin underDaniel Barenboim. Published by Deutsche Grammophon, 4 November 2016.^[38][39]
• 2016:Waldbühne – Czech Night – Lisa Batiashvilli's live performance with theBerlin Philharmonic, conducted byYannick Nézet-Séguin, works byAntonín Dvořák andBedřich Smetana. Published by EuroArt.^[40][41][3]
• 2018:Visions of Prokofiev – Violin Concertos 1&2, and excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, and the Love for Three Oranges. Published byDeutsche Grammophon.^[42]
• In addition, a variety of recordings of modern music, includingBenjamin Britten,Harrison Birtwistle,Olli Mustonen andErnst von Dohnányi

• Media related toLisa Batiashvili at Wikimedia Commons
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• Classical violinists from Georgia (country)
• International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition prize-winners
• Women classical violinists
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• Deutsche Grammophon artists
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• Musicians from Tbilisi
• Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg alumni
• Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music

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