Lisa Batiashvili

The Georgian-German violinist Lisa Batiashvili (*1979) 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, she founded the Lisa Batiashvili Foundation, which she has led ever since. The foundation serves her dream of supporting young, highly talented Georgian musicians and helping them to thrive in their musical careers.

She will begin her 2025/26 season alongside the Munich Philharmonic and Lahav Shani. Afterwards, she is set to continue her successful collaboration with Yannick Nézet-Séguin in Montreal and Philadelphia. In 2026, she starts with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, directed by Klaus Mäkelä, and is also looking forward to projects with the Filarmonica della Scala, the Kammerakademie Potsdam, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and her passion project “City Lights” with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra. As a chamber musician, she will tour extensively with Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Gautier Capuçon, forming for this project a bespoke piano trio. Further concerts with the Georgian composer and pianist Giorgi Gigashvili are also planned.

Recording exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon, Batiashvili’s latest album Secret Love Letters was released in August 2022, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as Franck Sonata with Giorgi Gigashvili. Her 2020 recording, “City Lights”, is a musical journey that takes listeners to eleven cities around the world, exploring autobiographical connections to music ranging from Johannes Sebastian Bach and Ennio Morricone to Antonín Dvořák and Charlie Chaplin. A twelfth city was added in 2022 with the release of her single “Desafinado”, celebrating Rio de Janeiro. At the renowned Concert de Paris on Bastille Day in 2020 she performed the title track “City Memories” which was broadcasted internationally. Her discography also includes “Visions of Prokofiev” with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under Yannick Nézet-Séguin, which won an Opus Klassik Award and was shortlisted for the 2018 Gramophone Awards. DVD releases of live performances portray Bastiashvili playing Béla Bartók’s Violin Concerto No.1 with Berliner Philharmoniker under Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Johannes Brahms’ Concerto for Violin and Cello with Gautier Capuçon, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and Christian Thielemann.

She has won a number of awards: the MIDEM Classical Award, Choc de l’année, Accademia Musicale Chigiana International Prize, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival’s Leonard Bernstein Award and Beethoven-Ring. In 2018, Batiashvili was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Sibelius Academy, University of Arts, Helsinki. Between 2019 and 2022, Batiashvili was Artistic Director of the Audi Sommerkonzerte Ingolstadt. In 2025, she was honoured with the Kaiser Otto Prize of the city of Magdeburg for her commitment against war and anti-semitism and for promoting European unity, as well as the ‘Pro Meritis Scientiae et Litterarum’ from the Bavarian State Ministry.

Lisa Batiashvili lives in Berlin and plays a Joseph Guarneri “del Gesu” from 1739, generously loaned by a private collector.