Mariam Batsashvili

Mariam Batsashvili მარიამ ბაწაშვილი
Batsashvili in 2014
Background information
Born	(1993-06-01) 1 June 1993 (age 31)} Tbilisi, Georgia
Genres	Classical
Occupation	Pianist
Instrument	Piano
Years active	2004–present
Website	www.mariam-piano.com

Mariam Batsashvili ^[a] (born 1 June 1993) is a classical pianist from Georgia.

Biography

Mariam Batsashvili (right) and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands in 2014.

Batsashvili started playing piano when she was 5 under Natalia Natsvlishvili at the E. Mikeladze Central Music School before continuing at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar with Grigory Gruzman. ^[1] In 2014, she won the 10th Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht, after having already triumphed in the International Franz Liszt Competition for Young Pianists in Weimar in 2011. ^{[2] [3]}

The following year, she had received the Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Prize and she spent the 2016–17 season as a ‘Rising Star’ of the European Concert Hall Organization (ECHO). ^[4]

Since 2017 she has been an official Yamaha artist.

Between 2017 and 2019, Mariam Batsashvili was one of the BBC's New Generation Artists ^[5]

In 2019, her debut album with Warner Classics (Chopin-Liszt) was released.

Notes

1. Georgian :მარიამ ბაწაშვილი, romanized: Mariam Bats’ashvili

References

1. http://www.mariam-piano.com
2. Biography Mariam Batsashvili First Prize winner of the 10th Liszt Competition
3. Prize winners 1986-2014 - International Franz Liszt Piano Competition
4. "Pianist Mariam Batsashvili signs to Warner Classics". Gramophone. May 7, 2019. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
5. New Generation Artists A to Z