Lisa Batiashvili
violin
About this Artist
Georgian-born German violinist Lisa Batiashvili 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 enters 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 Zürich (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) follow. She also returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Robin Ticciati), New York Philharmonic (Iván Fischer), and 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.
Recording exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon, Batiashvili released her latest album, Secret Love Letters, in August 2022 with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra, along with Giorgi Gigashvili in the Franck Sonata.
Her 2020 recording, City Lights, marks a musical journey that takes listeners around the world to 11 cities with an autobiographical connection with music ranging from Bach to Morricone and Dvořák to Charlie Chaplin.
Batiashvili’s 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).
She has won 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).
Batiashvili lives in Berlin and plays a Joseph Guarneri “del Gesu” from 1739, generously loaned by a private collector.