Lisa Batiashvili
{{Short description|Georgian musician (born 1979)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1979|03|07|df=y}}
| birth_place = Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
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| instrument = Violin
| genre = Chamber music, classical music
| occupation = Musician
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| label = Sony Classical/SME, Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Classics
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| website = {{url|lisabatiashvili.com}}
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Elisabeth Batiashvili ({{lang-ka|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". Batiashvili makes frequent appearances at high-profile international events; she was the violin soloist at the 2018 Nobel Prize concert.[https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel-prize-concert/ Lisa Batiashvili, violin, soloist at the 2018 Nobel Prize Concert], Retrieved: 3 January 2019
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.{{cite news | author=Peter Culshaw | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3666703/Lisa-Batiashvili-went-from-Tbilisi-to-the-top.html | title=Lisa Batiashvili went from Tbilisi to the top | newspaper=The Daily Telegraph | date=21 July 2007 | accessdate=28 March 2015}} 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.{{cite news | author=Michael Church | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/preview-lisa-batiashvili-wigmore-hall-london-518235.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/preview-lisa-batiashvili-wigmore-hall-london-518235.html |archive-date=14 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | title=Preview: Lisa Batiashvili, Wigmore Hall, London | newspaper=The Independent | date=5 December 2005 | accessdate=21 March 2007}} Later, Lisa Batiashvili also studied with Ana Chumachenco.
In 1995, aged 16, she placed 2nd at the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki.
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.{{cite news | author=Erica Jeal | url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2001/sep/11/artsfeatures.proms2001 | title=Prom 66: BBCSSO/ Vanska | newspaper=The Guardian | date=11 September 2001 | accessdate=21 March 2007}}{{cite news | author=David Fanning | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4725538/Soloists-do-what-comes-naturally.html | title=Soloists do what comes naturally | newspaper=The Daily Telegraph| date=11 September 2001 | accessdate=28 March 2015}}{{cite news | author=Martin Anderson | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/prom-65-66-royal-albert-hall-london-668988.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124024347/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/prom-65-66-royal-albert-hall-london-668988.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=24 January 2011 | title=Prom 65, 66, Royal Albert Hall, London | newspaper=The Independent | date=12 September 2001 | accessdate=21 March 2007}}{{cite news | author=David Fanning | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/3582179/Edinburgh-reports-panache-and-authority.html | title=Edinburgh reports: panache and authority | newspaper=The Daily Telegraph | date=2 September 2002 | accessdate=28 March 2015}}{{cite news | author=Matthew Rye | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/3596157/Explosive-coupling.html | title=Explosive coupling | newspaper=The Daily Telegraph | date=6 June 2003 | accessdate=28 March 2015}} She has also worked with a later BBC New Generation Artist, Ashley Wass, in recital.{{cite news | author=Geoffrey Norris | author-link=Geoffrey Norris | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4723929/Playing-with-fire.html | title=Playing with fire | newspaper=The Daily Telegraph | date=6 June 2001 | accessdate=28 March 2015}} She made her BBC Proms debut in 2000.{{cite news | author=Rob Cowan | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/sublime-performance-from-batiashvili-697506.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/sublime-performance-from-batiashvili-697506.html |archive-date=14 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | title=Sublime performance from Batiashvili | newspaper=The Independent | date=16 August 2000 | accessdate=10 July 2007}}
=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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.boosey.com/pages/cr/catalogue/cat_detail?musicid=48679|title=Magnus Lindberg – Violin Concerto No.1|website=Boosey.com|accessdate=16 October 2019}}{{cite news|author=Allan Kozinn|author-link=Allan Kozinn|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9507E2DE133EF937A1575BC0A9609C8B63|title=At Mostly Mozart, Mostly Magnus, in a Concerto and Chamber Pieces|newspaper=The New York Times|date=24 August 2006|accessdate=22 March 2007}}{{cite news | author=Hilary Finch | url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article667395.ece | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616214619/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article667395.ece | url-status=dead | archive-date=16 June 2011 | title=Magnus Lindberg Premiere | newspaper=The Times | date=11 October 2006 | accessdate=21 March 2007}} 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.{{cite news | author=Annette Morreau | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/reviews/bbc-sobringuier-barbican-london-786671.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/reviews/bbc-sobringuier-barbican-london-786671.html |archive-date=14 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | title=BBC SO/Bringuier, Barbican, London | newspaper=The Independent | date=25 February 2008 | accessdate=8 April 2009}} 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.Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/arts/music/lisa-batiashvili-on-violins-ukraine-and-valery-gergiev.html Politics Is Personal, and Professional: Lisa Batiashvili on Violins, Ukraine and Valery Gergiev], The New York Times, 31 January 2015
=Artist in residence=
Batiashavili was 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.{{cite news | url=http://www.santacecilia.it/en/notizie/tutte/batiashvili.html | title=Lisa Batiashvili | website=Santacecilia.it | accessdate=10 December 2017}}{{cite news | url=http://classicalsource.com/db_control/db_news.php?id=4904 | title=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 | website=Classicalsource.com | date=27 September 2017| accessdate=10 December 2017}} In parallel, she has an artist residency with the NDR Symphony Orchestra.{{cite news|author=Verena Fischer-Zernin|url=https://www.welt.de/regionales/hamburg/article132051456/Ich-fuehle-mich-verantwortlich-fuer-Georgien.html|title=Ich fühle mich verantwortlich für Georgien|newspaper=Die Welt|language=de|date=9 September 2014|accessdate=28 March 2015}} She has been the artist in Residence with the Berlin Philharmonic for the 2023–24 season.{{cite web|url=https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/about-us/artist-in-residence/lisa-batiashvili/#:|title=Artist in Residence 2023/24|publisher=Berlin Philharmonic|first=Nicole|last=Restle|access-date=21 June 2024}}
=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, an album of the Tchaikovsky and Sibelius Violin Concertos and in 2017, an album of Prokofiev's works including his Violin Concertos 1 and 2.{{cite news | author=Kevin Shihoten | url=http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/6754.html | title=Sony BMG Masterworks Signs Violinist Lisa Batiashvili | website=Playbillarts.com | date=6 July 2007 | accessdate=10 July 2007}}
=Instrument=
She plays a 1739 Guarneri del Gesu violin (Cozio 61377) lent to her from the private collection of an anonymous German collector.
She is foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.{{cite web | title=Ledamöter | website=Kungl. Musikaliska Akademien | url=https://www.musikaliskaakademien.se/omakademien/organisation/ledamoter.39.html | language=sv | access-date=12 November 2024}}
Private life
Batiashvili is married to French oboist François Leleux. They have resided in both Munich and France with their two children.
Discography
- 2001: Works For Violin & Piano – Elizabeth Batiashvili performs works by Brahms, Bach, Schubert. Published by EMI Classics 2001.{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Works-Violin-Piano-Johannes-Brahms/dp/B00005B5P0|title=Works For Violin And Piano|date=4 June 2001|accessdate=16 October 2019|website=Amazon.co.uk}}
- 2007: European Concert from Berlin – Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. Including Brahms: Symphony No. 4; & Double Concerto op. 102 performed by Batiashvili (violin) and Truls Mørk (cello). Published by EuroArt, 1 May 2007.{{Cite web|url=https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/concert/15799|title=2007 European Concert from Berlin with Simon Rattle, Lisa Batiashvili and Truls Mørk|website=Digital Concert Hall|accessdate=16 October 2019}}
- 2007: Sibelius / Lindberg – Lisa Batiashvili and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo: Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto & Magnus Lindberg Violin Concerto No. 1. Published by Sony Classical, 10 September 2007.{{citation | title=Sibelius, Lindberg Violin Concertos : xiao ti qin xie zou qu = xi bei liu shi | year=2007 | oclc=906201891}}{{Cite web|url=http://lisabatiashvili.com/recordings/sibelius-lindberg/|title=Sibelius / Lindberg|website=Lisabatiashvili.com|accessdate=16 October 2019}}
- 2008: Mozart – Mozart's Oboe Quartet in F, K370, and 3 Arias from The Magic Flute. Performed by Francois Leleux, Lisa Batiashvili, Laurence Power and Sebastian Klinger. Published by Sony Classical, 16 December 2008.{{Cite web|url=http://lisabatiashvili.com/recordings/oboe-quintet-arias-from-magic-flute/|title=Oboe Quintet Arias From Magic Flute|website=Lisabatiashvili.com|accessdate=16 October 2019}}
- 2009: Beethoven / Tsintsadze – Lisa Batiashvili (Violin and directing), Beethoven Violin Concerto & Sulkhan Tsintsadze, 6 Miniatures. Published by Sony Classical, 3 March 2009.{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beethoven-Violin-Concerto-Tsintsadze-Miniatures/dp/B001BWQW7Q|title=Beethoven – Violin Concerto / Tsintsadze – Miniatures|date=1 September 2008|accessdate=16 October 2019|website=Amazon.co.uk}}{{Cite web|url=http://lisabatiashvili.com/recordings/beethoven-tsintsadze/|title=Beethoven / Tsintsadze|website=Lisabatiashvili.com|accessdate=16 October 2019}}
- 2011: Echoes of Time – works by Arvo Pärt, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Giya Kancheli and Dmitri Shostakovich, with Hélène Grimaud and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen. Published by Deutsche Grammophon, 15 February 2011.{{Cite web|url=http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/html/special/batiashvili-echoesoftime/sites/album-english.html|title=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|website=Deutschegrammophon.com|accessdate=16 October 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Lisa-Batiashvili-Symphonieorchester-Des-Bayerischen-Rundfunks-Esa-Pekka-Salonen-Echoes-Of-Time/release/3751275|title=Lisa Batiashvili, Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks*, Esa-Pekka Salonen – Echoes Of Time|website=Discogs.com|accessdate=16 October 2019}}{{Cite web|url=http://lisabatiashvili.com/recordings/echoes-of-time/|title=Echoes Of Time|website=Lisabatiashvili.com|accessdate=16 October 2019}}
- 2013: Brahms & Clara Schumann – Brahms: Violin Concerto & Clara Schumann – Three Romances for Violin and Piano. Staatskapelle Dresden under Christian Thielemann; Alice Sara Ott and Lisa Batiashvili. Published by Deutsche Grammophon, 8 January 2013.{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Johannes-Batiashvili-Staatskapelle-Christian-Thielemann/dp/B00ANUEI32|title=Johannes Brahms / Clara Schumann by Lisa Batiashvili & Staatskapelle Dresden & Christian Thielemann & Alice Sara Ott on Amazon Music – Amazon.co.uk|website=Amazon.co.uk|accessdate=16 October 2019}}{{Cite web|url=http://lisabatiashvili.com/recordings/brahms-clara-schumann/|title=Brahms / Clara Schumann|website=Lisabatiashvili.com|accessdate=16 October 2019}}
- 2013: Tchaikovsky: Pathétique – Tchaikovsky Symphonie No. 6 Pathétique, and Selected Romances – Opus 6 and Opus 73. Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Published by Deutsche Grammophon, 20 September 2013.{{Cite web|url=http://lisabatiashvili.com/recordings/tchaikovsky-pathetique/|title=Tchaikovsky: Pathétique|website=Lisabatiashvili.com|accessdate=16 October 2019}}
- 2014: Bach – Lisa Batiashvili plays works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Published by Deutsche Grammophon, 16 September 2014.[https://www.amazon.com/Bach-Lisa-Batiashvili/dp/B00KOEQT02 Deutsche Grammophon, 2014, Lisa Batiashvili, Johann Sebastian Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach].{{Cite web|url=http://lisabatiashvili.com/recordings/bach/|title=Bach|website=Lisabatiashvili.com|accessdate=16 October 2019}}
- 2016: Tchaikovsky / Sibelius – Lisa Batiashvili plays Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto & Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Staatskapelle Berlin under Daniel Barenboim. Published by Deutsche Grammophon, 4 November 2016.{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Tchaikovsky-Sibelius-Lisa-Batiashvili-Daniel-Barenboim-Staatskapelle-Berlin-Violin-Concertos/release/9229081|title=Tchaikovsky* ∙ Sibelius*, Lisa Batiashvili ∙ Daniel Barenboim, Staatskapelle Berlin – Violin Concertos|website=Discogs|accessdate=16 October 2019}}{{Cite web|url=http://lisabatiashvili.com/recordings/tchaikovsky-sibelius/|title=Tchaikovsky / Sibelius|website=Lisabatiashvili.com|accessdate=16 October 2019}}
- 2016: Waldbühne – Czech Night – Lisa Batiashvilli's live performance with the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, works by Antonín Dvořák and Bedřich Smetana. Published by EuroArt.{{Cite web|url=https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/concert/22416|title=A Czech evening at the Waldbühne|website=Digital Concert Hall|accessdate=16 October 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Berliner-Philharmoniker-Yannick-N%C3%A9zet-S%C3%A9guin-Lisa-Batiashvili-Waldb%C3%BChne-Czech-Night/release/9336705|title=Berliner Philharmoniker, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Lisa Batiashvili – Waldbühne Czech Night|website=Discogs|accessdate=16 October 2019}}{{Cite web|url=http://lisabatiashvili.com/biography/|title=Biography|website=Lisabatiashvili.com|accessdate=16 October 2019}}
- 2018: Visions of Prokofiev – Violin Concertos 1&2, and excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, and the Love for Three Oranges. Published by Deutsche Grammophon.{{Cite web|url=https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue|title=Catalogue|website=Deutschegrammophon.com|accessdate=16 September 2020}}
- In addition, a variety of recordings of modern music, including Benjamin Britten, Harrison Birtwistle, Olli Mustonen and Ernst von Dohnányi
References
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External links
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- {{official|http://www.lisabatiashvili.com/}}
- [https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/de/kuenstler/lisa-batiashvili Profile], Deutsche Grammophon
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