Lisa Batiashvili — violin

“Batiashvili’s fearless playing is so tonally rich and technically immaculate.” (The Guardian) 

Lisa Batiashvili, the Georgian-born violinist raised in Germany, is widely acclaimed by audiences and fellow musicians alike for her virtuosity. A multiple award-winning artist, she has cultivated long-standing artistic relationships with the world’s leading orchestras, conductors and musicians. In 2021, she founded and continues to lead the Lisa Batiashvili Foundation, embodying her long-held vision and commitment to supporting young, exceptionally talented Georgian musicians in developing their professional careers. 

“She played with pure, gorgeous tone and fabulous technique… Could you have fairly asked for more? The audience, to judge from its standing ovation, was fully content.” (The New York Times) 

Recording exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon, Batiashvili released her latest album Secret Love Letters in August 2022, together with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as Franck’s Sonata in collaboration with Giorgi Gigashvili. 

Her previous 2020 recording City Lights is a musical journey guiding listeners through eleven cities around the world, each connected to her personal musical biography, spanning repertoire from Bach to Morricone and from Dvořák to Charlie Chaplin. In 2022, a twelfth city was added with the release of her single Desafinado, dedicated to Rio de Janeiro. At the renowned Concert de Paris on Bastille Day in 2020, she performed City Memories, which was broadcast internationally. 

She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the MIDEM Classical Award, Choc de l’année, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana International Prize, the Leonard Bernstein Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, and the Beethoven Ring. In 2015, Batiashvili was named Instrumentalist of the Year by Musical America, was nominated as Gramophone Artist of the Year in 2017, and in 2018 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. 

From 2019 to 2022, Lisa served as Artistic Director of the Audi Sommerkonzerte in Ingolstadt. In 2025, she was honoured with the Kaiser Otto Prize of the city of Magdeburg for her stance against war and anti-Semitism and for promoting European unity, as well as the Pro Meritis Scientiae et Litterarum award from the Bavarian State Ministry. From the award ceremony: “She is an artist of conviction: with her clear political stance, particularly against the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, and her commitment to democratic values, she is a true role model.” 

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

Photo: Andre Josselin