Lisa Batiasvhili

German violinist of Georgian origin Lisa Batiashvili is celebrated by audiences and fellow musicians alike for her virtuosity. The multiple award-winning artist has built close and enduring relationships with the world’s leading orchestras, conductors, and soloists. In 2021, Lisa Batiashvili fulfilled a lifelong dream by founding the Lisa Batiashvili Foundation, through which she is committed to supporting young, highly talented Georgian musicians.

At the very start of the 2025/26 season, she will embark on a tour with the Munich Philharmonic and Lahav Shani. She will then continue her successful collaboration with Yannick Nézet-Séguin in Montreal and Philadelphia. The year 2026 begins with a tour alongside the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra under Klaus Mäkelä. She also looks forward to projects with the Filarmonica della Scala, the Kammerakademie Potsdam, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic – and to her passion project City Lights with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra.

In chamber music, she will appear on extensive tours performing piano trios with Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Gautier Capuçon, as well as in duo recitals with Giorgi Gigashvili.

Lisa Batiashvili’s most recent release on Deutsche Grammophon was the album Secret Love Letters, recorded together with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra and released in August 2022.

Her album City Lights presents a musical journey around the world, inspired by eleven cities that hold particular personal or musical significance in Batiashvili’s life, featuring music ranging from Bach to Morricone and from Dvořák to Charlie Chaplin. A twelfth city was added in 2022 with the release of her single Desafinado, celebrating Rio de Janeiro. At the internationally renowned Concert de Paris on Bastille Day in 2020, she performed the title track City Memories, broadcast worldwide.

Her impressive discography also includes Visions of Prokofiev with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under Yannick Nézet-Séguin, which received the Opus Klassik Award in 2018 and was nominated for the Gramophone Awards the same year. Earlier recordings include the violin concertos by Tchaikovsky and Sibelius with the Staatskapelle Berlin under Daniel Barenboim, Brahms with the Staatskapelle Dresden and Christian Thielemann, and Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Released on DVD are her performances with the Berlin Philharmonic under Yannick Nézet-Séguin featuring Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 1, as well as Brahms’ Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, performed with Gautier Capuçon and the Dresden Staatskapelle under Christian Thielemann.

Lisa Batiashvili has received the MIDEM Classical Award, the Choc de l’année, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana International Prize, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Leonard Bernstein Award, and the Beethoven Ring Bonn. In 2015, Musical America named her Instrumentalist of the Year; she was nominated as Gramophone’s Artist of the Year 2017 and received an honorary doctorate from the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki in 2018.

From 2019 to 2022, she served as Artistic Director of the Audi Sommerkonzerte Ingolstadt. In 2025, she was honoured with the Kaiser Otto Prize of the City of Magdeburg for her commitment against war, her political engagement, and her promotion of the European ideal, and she also received the Pro Meritis Scientiae et Litterarum award from the Bavarian State Ministry. As stated in the award citation: “She is an artist of conviction: with her clear political stance, particularly against Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, and her commitment to democracy, she is a true role model.”

Lisa Batiashvili lives in Berlin and performs on a 1739 Joseph Guarneri “del Gesù” violin, generously loaned to her by a private collector in Germany.