Lisa Batiashvili

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Lisa Batiashvili (born Elisabeth Batiashvili, in 1979) is a Georgian violinist, the daughter of a violinist father and a pianist mother. Her father was her first teacher from age 4. She later studied at the Hamburg Musikhochschule. In 1995, she was a prize winner in the Sibelius Internationl Violin Competition. She was one of the first of the BBC "New Generation Artists", from 1999-2001. 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. She has also worked with a later BBC New Generation Artist, Ashley Wass, in recital.She has also been a soloist at the BBC Proms in 2000 and 2002. In 2006, she was the soloist in the first performances in the United States (August, world premiere) and in Sweden (October, European premiere) of the violin concerto of Magnus Lindberg, which Lindberg wrote for Batiashvili. She has recorded the Lindberg concert as part of her recording contract with Sony Classical, which she signed in 2007. Batiashvili lives in Munich with her husband, François Leleux, and their daughter. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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City Lights

Echoes of Time

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 61 - Tsintsadze: Miniatures

Secret Love Letters

Johannes Brahms / Clara Schumann

Visions of Prokofiev

Tchaikovsky, Sibelius: Violin Concertos

Bach

Beethoven: Violin Concerto & Tsintsadze: Miniatures

Tchaikovsky, Sibelius : Violin Concertos

Sibelius & Lindberg: Violin Concertos

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