Background
Her father was her first teacher from age four.
Her father was her first teacher from age four.
She later studied at the Hamburg Musikhochschule.
Her family left Georgia in 1991 and settled in Germany. Batiashvili was one of the first of the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3 New Generation Artists, from 1999 to 2001. She has collaborated in chamber music and concerto performances with cellist Alban Gerhardt and pianist Steven Osborne, both British Broadcasting Corporation New Generation Artists exactly contemporary with Batiashvili.
She has also worked with a later British Broadcasting Corporation New Generation Artist, Ashley Wass, in recital.
She made her British Broadcasting Corporation Proms debut in 2000. In 2006, Batiashivili was the soloist in the first performances in the United States (August, world premiere) and in Sweden (October, European premiere) of the violin concerto of Magnus Lindberg, which Lindberg wrote for Batiashvili.
She also commissioned a solo violin encore from her compatriot Igor Loboda for solo violin, "Requiem for Ukraine". Batiashavili became artist-in-residence with the New York Philharmonic for the 2014-2015 season.
In parallel, she has an artist residency with the NDR Symphony Orchestra.
Her commercial recordings include the Lindberg concerto, as part of her recording contract with Sony Classical, which she signed in 2007. She plays a 1739 Guarneri del Gesu violin lent to her by a private collector.
