Lisa Batiashvili

Lisa Batiashvili, or Elisabeth Batiashvili (born 1979) is a Georgian violinist who has resided in Germany and France since she was 12 years old. She has performed across Europe and the United States. Lisa Batiashvili was born in Tbilisi where her father was a violinist and her mother was a pianist. She began learning violin with her father from age four. The family left Georgia in 1991 when she was 11 years old, and settled in Germany. She later studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. Mark Lubotsky, her teacher in Hamburg, had been a student of David Oistrakh, for whom Shostakovich wrote his violin concertos. In 1995, aged 15, she won the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki.