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Artist in Residence

Series W

Lisa Batiashvili says that she already dreamed of appearing with the Berliner Philharmoniker as a child. This dream has been fulfilled many times since her debut in 2004. Her appointment as Artist in Residence for the current season proves that the orchestra also regards the collaboration with the Georgian violinist as an absolute dream. Lisa Batiashvili displays the complete range of her versatility during the concerts in this series: as soloist with the orchestra and chamber music ensembles and as the interpreter of both great classics and exciting new discoveries.

She will be heard in two symphony concerts – under chief conductor Kirill Petrenko and honorary conductor Daniel Barenboim – during her residency, performing the colourful and atmospheric First Violin Concerto by Karol Szymanowski and Johannes Brahms’s Violin Concerto, which incomparably combines virtuosity and depth. With a chamber ensemble made up of members of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Lisa Batiashvili devotes herself to two wonderfully melodious nonets of Romanticism, at the same time introducing the far too little known composer Louise Farrenc. As a musician to whom the training of promising young talents is very important, she will also appear with the Karajan Academy. After Antonín Dvořák’s Wind Serenade and a work by the Georgian composer Giya Kancheli, the concert closes with the Souvenir de Florence, in which Tchaikovsky presents himself in an unusually cheerful mood.

An additional concert, which is available for subscribers to this series at a special price, features a joint appearance with the composer and clarinettist Jörg Widmann, Composer in Residence with the Berliner Philharmoniker this season. The basic idea of the programme, says Lisa Batiashvili, is to present music that is both modern and melodious. Works by Tsotne Zedginidze, an extraordinarily talented composer and pianist who was born in 2009, will also be heard. Lisa Batiashvili is the young musician’s mentor.

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Saturday,

04 Nov 2023,
19:00

Chamber Music Hall