Lisa Batiashvili

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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

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
City Lights (Lisa Batiashvili, Radio Symphony Orchestra , Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra & Nikoloz Rachveli )
  DE 44 06/12/2020 (2 weeks)

In addition, a large number of recordings of modern music, etc. a. by Benjamin Britten , Harrison Birtwistle , Olli Mustonen and Ernst von Dohnányi

Awards

Web links

Commons : Lisa Batiashvili  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Lisa Batiashvili, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence, 2014–15 nyphil.org
  2. ^ NDR Symphony Orchestra: "Artist in Residence" Lisa Batiashvili plays Brahms Press release of the NDR, September 9, 2014.
  3. Season start with Lisa Batiashvili as Artist in Residence at the Tonhalle Zurich, press release by the Weigold & Böhm agency in September 2015.
  4. Lisa Batiashvili - Artist in Residence with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra lisabatiashvili.com, December 10, 2016.
  5. Artist in Residence at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia 2017/18: Lisa Batiashvili, Violin Classic Concerts Management, 2017.
  6. Lisa Batiashvili Homepage, as of December 2018.
  7. ^ Nippon Music Foundation: Instruments nmf.or.jp
  8. Biography lisabatiashvili.com
  9. a b Q&A: Lisa Batiashvili on New York Residency, Russia WQXR, October 8, 2014.
  10. Chart sources: Germany
  11. The bearers of the Beethoven Ring buergerfuerbeethoven.de
  12. Musical America's Instrumentalist of the Year 2015: Lisa Batiashvili musicalamerica.com
  13. ^ Opus Klassik , accessed on October 14, 2018.