Lisa Batiashvili
Elisabeth (Lisa) Batiashvili ( Georgian ლიზა ბათიაშვილი , Lisa Batiaschwili ; * 1979 in Tbilisi , Georgian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Georgian violinist . She is living in Germany.
Life
childhood and education
Lisa Batiashvili was born in Georgia as the daughter of a violinist and a pianist. The first lesson was given by the father at the age of two. When the country was on the brink of civil war, the family moved to Germany in 1991. At the age of 12, Batiashvili studied at the Hamburg Conservatory with Mark Lubotsky and in 1993 switched to Ana Chumachenco in Munich.
Artistic career
In 1995 she was the youngest participant to win second prize at the Sibelius Competition in Helsinki. In Great Britain she was accepted a little later by the BBC in the funding program "New Generation Artists". In 2001 the record company EMI recorded their first CD.
She caused a particular sensation with her interpretation of the Sibelius Violin Concerto , which received very good reviews. The concert was released on a second CD together with the violin concerto composed especially for Lisa Batiashvili by the Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg , which was premiered in Helsinki in 2007. In 2010 she was heard in the world premiere of Nicolas Bacris Quasi una fantasia for three solo violins and orchestra op. 118 in the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden . She played with Alina Pogostkina , Baïba Skride and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Constantinos Carydis . Batiashvili played with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy , Zubin Mehta , Sakari Oramo , Simon Rattle , Christoph von Dohnányi and Christoph Eschenbach .
Several composers have written double concertos for oboe and violin for Batiashvili and her husband François Leleux . Broken Chant by Giya Kancheli (2007) premiered on February 15, 2008 at the Barbican in London . Thierry Escaich's double concert was premiered on December 7, 2014 in Hamburg's Laeiszhalle .
Artist in Residence
For the 2014/15 season, Lisa Batiashvili was artist in residence with the New York Philharmonic and at the same time with the NDR Symphony Orchestra , as the orchestra's first artist in residence. For the 2015/16 season she was Artist in Residence with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich , for the 2016/17 season with the Concertgebouw Orchestra , for the 2017/18 season at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and for the 2018/19 season at the Prinzregententheater in Munich.
Instruments
The artist played the Stradivarius Engleman from 1709 from November 2001 to April 2012 and then until July 2013 the Stradivarius ex-Joachim from 1715, both on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation . She is currently playing a Guarneri del Gesù from 1739, provided by an anonymous German collector.
Political commitment
Politically, Batiashvili attracted attention through her protest against Russian politics and human rights violations in Russia. She played the protest piece Requiem for Ukraine by Igor Loboda several times , including on August 31, 2014 in Helsinki at the concert We agree to disagree , of which she was also co-director. She played the same piece as an encore at a concert on September 15, 2014 with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of the conductor Valery Gergijew , who is known as a Putin supporter .
Private
Lisa Batiashvili lives in Munich with her husband, the French oboist François Leleux , and their children Anna-Victoria and Louis-Alexandre.
Discography
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- 2001: Works For Violin & Piano: Brahms, Bach, Schubert
- 2007: Sibelius & Lindberg: Violin Concertos
- 2007 (DVD): Berlin Philharmonic - European Concert 2007. Brahms: Symphony No. 4; Double concerto op. 102. With Truls Mörk and Simon Rattle
- 2008: Beethoven Violin Concerto & Tsintsadze , 6 Miniatures
- 2011: Echoes of Time : Works by Arvo Pärt , Sergej Rachmaninow , Gija Kanscheli and Dmitri Shostakowitsch , with Hélène Grimaud and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen
- 2012: Brahms: Violin Concerto & Clara Schumann , Three Romances for Violin and Piano. With the Staatskapelle Dresden under Christian Thielemann
- 2014: Bach : Works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- 2016: Waldbühne - Czech Night (with works by Antonín Dvořák and Bedřich Smetana , with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Berliner Philharmoniker )
- 2016: Tchaikovsky & Sibelius: Violin Concertos. With the Staatskapelle Berlin under Daniel Barenboim
In addition, a large number of recordings of modern music, etc. a. by Benjamin Britten , Harrison Birtwistle , Olli Mustonen and Ernst von Dohnányi
Awards
- 1995: 2nd prize at the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki
- 2003: Leonard Bernstein Award (as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival)
- 2006: Beethovenring
- 2008: Premio Internazionale Accademia Musicale Chigiana
- 2008: ECHO Klassik in the Young Artist of the Year category
- 2011: ECHO Klassik in the Instrumentalist of the Year category
- 2015: Instrumentalist of the Year , Award from Musical America
- 2018: Opus Klassik for the concert recording of the year
Web links
- official homepage
- Interview at the classic portal Classicpoint.net, December 1, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lisa Batiashvili, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence, 2014–15 nyphil.org
- ^ NDR Symphony Orchestra: "Artist in Residence" Lisa Batiashvili plays Brahms Press release of the NDR, September 9, 2014.
- ↑ Season start with Lisa Batiashvili as Artist in Residence at the Tonhalle Zurich, press release by the Weigold & Böhm agency in September 2015.
- ↑ Lisa Batiashvili - Artist in Residence with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra lisabatiashvili.com, December 10, 2016.
- ↑ Artist in Residence at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia 2017/18: Lisa Batiashvili, Violin Classic Concerts Management, 2017.
- ↑ Lisa Batiashvili Homepage, as of December 2018.
- ^ Nippon Music Foundation: Instruments nmf.or.jp
- ↑ Biography lisabatiashvili.com
- ↑ a b Q&A: Lisa Batiashvili on New York Residency, Russia WQXR, October 8, 2014.
- ↑ Chart sources: Germany
- ↑ The bearers of the Beethoven Ring buergerfuerbeethoven.de
- ↑ Musical America's Instrumentalist of the Year 2015: Lisa Batiashvili musicalamerica.com
- ^ Opus Klassik , accessed on October 14, 2018.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Batiashvili, Lisa |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Batiashvili, Elisabeth; ბათიაშვილი, ლიზა (Georgian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Georgian violist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1979 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tbilisi |