Mariam Batsashvili

Charisma, brilliance, and depth of expression are qualities with which Mariam Batsashvili captivates not only live audiences worldwide. The Georgian pianist has also long secured her place among the top ranks in the recording and streaming market since signing exclusively with Warner Classics in 2019: a highlight in a steep career that has taken her to over 30 countries and the world's most important concert halls to date. Besides major musical epicentres like Berlin, London, Paris, or Vienna, Mariam Batsashvili is a frequent guest at international festivals such as the Klavier-Festival Ruhr, where she debuted in 2019, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Edinburgh International Festival, the Milan Festival Piano City, the Festival Piano aux Jacobins in Toulouse, or the Beethovenfest Bonn. Outside Europe, Mariam Batsashvili is among the most sought-after interpreters of the great piano literature from Bach to late Romanticism.

Since her internationally acclaimed victories at the Franz Liszt Competitions in Weimar (2011) and Utrecht (2014), Mariam Batsashvili's career has been closely linked to the name of this central musical figure of the 19th century – who was also the focus of her Warner debut album "Chopin Liszt" in 2019. After her first encounter during lessons with Natalie Natsvlishvili in her native Tbilisi, Mariam Batsashvili was able to further expand her Liszt experiences as a student of Grigory Gruzman in Weimar and through inspiring exchanges with legendary Liszt interpreters like Leslie Howard. Besides her distinctive artistry of touch (Anschlagskunst), media such as the British Observer or the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” praise Batsashvili's feel for the "inner world" and the "nonchalant poetry" of Liszt's music, highlighting her soulful playing even in the most virtuoso passages.

Beyond Liszt's works, the pianist – who in the past decade was part of two of the world's most exclusive young talent programs as a "Rising Star" of the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) and as a "BBC New Generation Artist" – earns enthusiastic reactions from audiences and the specialist press for her interpretations of the piano works of Schubert, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms. In the 2024/25 season, she returned to major concert halls such as the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, London's Wigmore Hall, the Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg and the BBC Proms with this repertoire. The fact that Mariam Batsashvili is also very successful on social media, with over 70,000 followers, is thanks to the illustrative short tutorials on technical and performance practice issues that she has regularly provided to professional and amateur pianists on Instagram for several years.