Mariam Batsashvili, piano
Somehow there must be a fabulous musical gene in the DNA of Georgians. Now it was 25-year-old Mariam Batsashvili who not only shone as a pianist in the Herkulessaal, but also served a rarity: Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor. It showed Clara Schumann as a sensitive soul and Batsashvili as a sensitive sound poet.
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Klaus P. Richter, June 17, 2019
Pianist Mariam Batsashvili gained international attention when she won the 10th Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht in 2014 and manages to play her way straight into the hearts of her audience. Their richness of colour, deep entry into the most diverse works coupled with stupendous touch culture touch and inspire. As a BBC New Generation Artist, she has made her debuts at the Cheltenham Festival, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and with the Ulster Orchestra at the BBC Proms. In August 2019 her first album was released for Warner Classics, in August 2022 her second album "Romantic Piano Masters".
The young pianist had her first orchestral experience at the highest level with the Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra under James Gaffigan in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam (Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1), the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under Rafael Payare (Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1) and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Alexander Shelley (Liszt Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2). She is a regular guest at London's Wigmore Hall and has given solo recitals in around 30 countries, including China, South Korea, Indonesia, Brazil, South Africa, France, Spain, Norway, the Baltic States as well as Benelux and Germany. She has been a guest at numerous festivals such as the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Piano City Festival in Milan and the Piano aux Jacobins Festival in Toulouse.
As a "Rising Star" of the European Concert Hall Organization (ECHO), she made guest appearances in the most important halls in Europe in the 2016/17 season. She has performed at the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Zurich Tonhalle, the Salzburg Mozarteum and London's Wigmore Hall, among others; As part of the "Debuts in Deutschlandfunk Kultur" she performed with great success at the Berlin Philharmonic.
Highlights of the 2021/22 season included her recital debuts at the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Schumannfest Düsseldorf, the Fundación Juan March Madrid and the De Bijloke Muziekcentrum Gent, as well as orchestral concerts with the orchestra of the Staatstheater Cottbus (Clara Schumann Piano Concerto), with the Filharmonia Opolska (Clara Schumann Piano Concerto and Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1), with the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra (Robert Schumann Piano Concerto) and with the Munich Symphony Orchestra (Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1).
Mariam Batsashvili, born in Tbilisi in 1993, first studied in her hometown with Natalia Natsvlishvili before moving to the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Weimar with Grigory Gruzman. In 2011 she won the Franz Liszt Competition for young pianists in Weimar; she received the renowned Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Prize in 2015. Mariam Batsashvili is a Carl-Heinz Illies scholarship holder from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and is supported by The Keyboard Charitable Trust. She has been an official Yamaha artist since 2017.
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