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MARIAM BATSASHVILI, Pianist
Mariam Batsashvili (Georgia, born in 1993) won First Prize at the 10th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht becoming the first female First Prize Winner of the Liszt Competition. 5 @ 5 is proud to present her in her USA Debut. Batsashvili also took home the Junior Jury Award and the Press Prize. The International Press Jury called her a complete artist with a tremendous toucher and full sincere emotion.
As winner she has embarked on an extensive concert tour, taking her to more than 30 countries. Already the morning after the Finals in Utrechts Tivoli Vredenburg she made her debut in a sold-out main hall of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Together with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of James Gaffigan, she once more performed Liszts Concerto No. 1 in E flat major.
Mariam Batsashvili studied successively at the E. Mikeladze Central Music School in Tbilisi with Natalia Natsvlishvili and at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar with Grigory Gruzman. She won prizes from various competitions in Georgia, Germany and Spain. Aside from her native country, Mariam has performed in such countries as Germany, Spain, Italy, Israel, South Africa, both in recital and with orchestra. She was a soloist with the Erfurt Philharmonisches Orchester and with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra on numerous occasions.
In the coming years, Batsashvili will work with renowned orchestras such as the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Brussels Philharmonic and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ecuador. She will also play at festivals such as the Beethovenfest Bonn, Pianofortissimo Festival Bologna and Delft Chamber Music Festival. The tour will cover 24 countries including China, Brazil, the United States, South Africa, Russia, Indonesia, Georgia, Spain, Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Mariam Batsashvili has been selected as a Rising Star by ECHO (European Concert Hall Organisation) for the season 2016/17. As a Rising Star she will perform a concert tour across 21 of the most prestigious venues of Europe, including Musikverein Wien and Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
Mariam Batsashvili is a scholarship holder of Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
PROGRAM
Marcello/JS. Bach Concerto in D Minor, BWV974
Bach/Busoni Chaconne in D Mol
Händel/Liszt - Sarabande and Chaconne über Themen aus dem Singspiel Almira, S181
Liszt Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude (Harmonies poétiques et religieuses), S173/3
Liszt Tarantella (Venezia e Napoli), S162/3
Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13, S244/13
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LocationCary Hall, Dimenna Center for Classical Music (View)
450 W 37th St.
New York, NY 10018
United States
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