The 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 fulfilled her lifelong dream by establishing the Lisa Batiashvili Foundation, through which she is dedicated to supporting young, highly talented Georgian musicians to thrive in their musical careers.

At the beginning of the 2026/27 season, Batiashvili opens the Tsinandali Festival in Georgia with the Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. She then brings a piece of Georgia to Germany, where she presents a variety of programs and artists as part of a residency at the Beethovenfest Bonn and in the “Georgian Spotlights” series at the Dresden Philharmonic. Moreover, she will bring her very own story to the stage in the program City Lights – Follow Your Dreams, combining live performance with video art.

In addition, she tours with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Klaus Mäkelä, as well as with the Berliner Philharmoniker at the Salzburg Easter Festival. Further engagements take her to the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, among others.

As a chamber musician, she can be seen on tour in North America as part of a piano trio with Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Gautier Capuçon, and in Europe as part of a duo with Giorgi Gigashvili.

Her impressive discography includes Visions of Prokofiev with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, which won a 2018 Opus Klassik Award and was nominated for a 2018 Gramophone Award. Earlier recordings include the concertos of Tchaikovsky and Sibelius with the Staatskapelle Berlin under Daniel Barenboim, Brahms’ Violin Concerto with the Staatskapelle Dresden and Christian Thielemann, and Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under Esa-Pekka Salonen. In 2022, the album Secret Love Letters with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra was released.

Batiashvili has received numerous accolades, including the International Prize of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in 2009 and Musical America’s Instrumentalist of the Year in 2015. She was nominated as Gramophone’s Artist of the Year in 2017. In 2018, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. In October 2026, she takes up a professorship at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.

Lisa Batiashvili lives in Berlin and plays a Joseph Guarneri “del Gesù” from 1739, generously loaned by a private collector in Germany. For selected projects, she plays a violin by Philipp Augustin, a copy of her “del Gesù” made for her in 2026.