Lisa Batiashvili
Violinist Lisa Batiashvili Joins the Roster
We are delighted to welcome violinist Lisa Batiashvili to our roster for North America. She will be represented by Senior Vice President Phillippa Cole, who officially joins the Opus 3 team in November, in conjunction with Impresariat Simmenauer.
Lisa Batiashvili, the Georgian-born German violinist, is an award-winning artist who has developed long-standing relationships with the world’s leading orchestras, conductors and musicians. Upcoming highlights in the 24/25 season include appearances at the Lucerne Festival with Orchestre de Paris, tours with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and the London Symphony Orchestra, and returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, and the National Symphony Orchestra. In summer 2025 she will perform as part of her popular trio with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and cellist Gautier Capuçon.
In 2021 Batiashvili formed and continues to lead the Lisa Batiashvili Foundation, which serves her lifelong dream and commitment to support young, highly talented Georgian musicians so that they may thrive in their musical careers. She will play concerts this season with Giorgi Gigashvili and Tsotne Zedginidze, two young Georgian pianists and composers who are supported by her foundation.
Recording exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon, Batiashvili enjoys an impressive discography which has garnered her an Opus Klassik Award and a spot on the shortlist for the 2018 Gramophone Awards. Her latest album, Secret Love Letters, was released in 2022, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra.
Lisa Batiashvili has won the MIDEM Classical Award, Choc de l’année, Accademia Musicale Chigiana International Prize, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival’s Leonard Bernstein Award and Beethoven-Ring. She was named Musical America’s Instrumentalist of the Year in 2015, was nominated as Gramophone’s Artist of the Year in 2017, and in 2018 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Sibelius Academy (University of Arts, Helsinki).