Lisa Batiashvili

Celebrated for her full-bodied tone and precise technique, Lisa Batiashvili is among the most highly regarded concert violinists of her generation. Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1979 and raised in Germany from the age of 12, she followed in the footsteps of her father, veteran violinist Tamás Batiashvili. She is the artistic director for Ingolstadt, Germany’s Audi Sommerkonzerte series, and frequently performs with some of the world’s finest orchestras, including the London Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw, Boston Symphony and Berliner Philharmoniker. Batiashvili released her first album in 2001 on EMI/Warner; it features tonally beguiling, deeply compelling performances of Bach, Brahms and Schubert. Since 2010, she has recorded extensively for Deutsche Grammophon, including a scintillating coupling of Tchaikovsky and Sibelius concertos with regular podium collaborator Daniel Barenboim, and a delectable album of Bach favourites recorded in 2014. Batiashvili was also the featured artist on the soundtrack to the 2019 film White Crow. The 2020 release City Lights is a crossover project including compositions by Ennio Morricone, Charlie Chaplin and Michel Legrand and collaborations with pop singer Katie Melua and jazz trumpeter Till Brönner, capturing all the romance of its international-travel theme by framing Batiashvili’s peerless tones with an evocative blend of classical, jazz and vintage film-music elements.