Lisa Batiashvili

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]

Lisa Batiashvili
Background information
Born (1979-03-07) 7 March 1979
Georgia
GenresChamber music, classical music
Occupation(s)Musician
InstrumentsViolin
LabelsSony Classical Records, Deutsche Grammophon
Websitelisabatiashvili.com

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.[3][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.[5][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.[7]

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.[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]

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.[15][16][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.[1]

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.[19][20] In parallel, she has an artist residency with the NDR Symphony Orchestra.[21]

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, a much acclaimed album of the Tchaikovsky and Sibelius Violin Concertos and in 2017, an album of Prokofiev's works including his Violin Concertos 1 and 2.[22]

Instrument

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

Private life

Batiashvili is married to French oboist François Leleux. They have resided in both Munich and France with their two children.[21][6]

Discography

References
  1. Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Politics Is Personal, and Professional: Lisa Batiashvili on Violins, Ukraine and Valery Gergiev, The New York Times, 31 January 2015
  2. Lisa Batiashvili, violin, soloist at the 2018 Nobel Prize Concert, Retrieved: 3 January 2019
  3. "Biography". Lisabatiashvili.com. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  4. Peter Culshaw (21 July 2007). "Lisa Batiashvili went from Tbilisi to the top". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  5. Michael Church (5 December 2005). "Preview: Lisa Batiashvili, Wigmore Hall, London". The Independent. Retrieved 21 March 2007.
  6. "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.
  7. "Works For Violin And Piano". Amazon.co.uk. 4 June 2001. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  8. Erica Jeal (11 September 2001). "Prom 66: BBCSSO/ Vanska". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 March 2007.
  9. David Fanning (11 September 2001). "Soloists do what comes naturally". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  10. Martin Anderson (12 September 2001). "Prom 65, 66, Royal Albert Hall, London". The Independent. Retrieved 21 March 2007.
  11. David Fanning (2 September 2002). "Edinburgh reports: panache and authority". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  12. Matthew Rye (6 June 2003). "Explosive coupling". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  13. Geoffrey Norris (6 June 2001). "Playing with fire". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  14. Rob Cowan (16 August 2000). "Sublime performance from Batiashvili". The Independent. Retrieved 10 July 2007.
  15. "Magnus Lindberg – Violin Concerto No.1". Boosey.com. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  16. Allan Kozinn (24 August 2006). "At Mostly Mozart, Mostly Magnus, in a Concerto and Chamber Pieces". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 March 2007.
  17. Hilary Finch (11 October 2006). "Magnus Lindberg Premiere". The Times. Retrieved 21 March 2007.
  18. Annette Morreau (25 February 2008). "BBC SO/Bringuier, Barbican, London". The Independent. Retrieved 8 April 2009.
  19. "Lisa Batiashvili". Santacecilia.it. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  20. "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.
  21. Verena Fischer-Zernin (9 September 2014). "Ich fühle mich verantwortlich für Georgien". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  22. Kevin Shihoten (6 July 2007). "Sony BMG Masterworks Signs Violinist Lisa Batiashvili". Playbillarts.com. Retrieved 10 July 2007.
  23. "2007 European Concert from Berlin with Simon Rattle, Lisa Batiashvili and Truls Mørk". Digital Concert Hall. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  24. Sony Classical, 2007. Lisa Batiashvili and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo: Jean Sibelius & Magnus Lindberg.>
  25. "Sibelius / Lindberg". Lisabatiashvili.com. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  26. "Oboe Quintet Arias From Magic Flute". Lisabatiashvili.com. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  27. "Beethoven – Violin Concerto / Tsintsadze – Miniatures". Amazon.co.uk. 1 September 2008. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  28. "Beethoven / Tsintsadze". Lisabatiashvili.com. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  29. "Lisa Batiashvili, Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks*, Esa-Pekka Salonen – Echoes Of Time". Discogs.com. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  30. "Echoes Of Time". Lisabatiashvili.com. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  31. "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.
  32. "Brahms / Clara Schumann". Lisabatiashvili.com. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  33. "Tchaikovsky: Pathétique". Lisabatiashvili.com. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  34. Deutsche Grammophon, 2014, Lisa Batiashvili, Johann Sebastian Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
  35. "Bach". Lisabatiashvili.com. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  36. "Tchaikovsky* ∙ Sibelius*, Lisa Batiashvili ∙ Daniel Barenboim, Staatskapelle Berlin – Violin Concertos". Discogs. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  37. "Tchaikovsky / Sibelius". Lisabatiashvili.com. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  38. "A Czech evening at the Waldbühne". Digital Concert Hall. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  39. "Berliner Philharmoniker, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Lisa Batiashvili – Waldbühne Czech Night". Discogs. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  40. "Catalogue". Deutschegrammophon.com. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
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