The violinist Lisa Batiashvili has been praised by critics, colleagues and audiences alike for her virtuosity and »profound sensitivity« (Financial Times). This award-winning musician has built close relationships with some of the world’s best orchestras, conductors and soloists. From 2019 until 2021 Batiashvili will be Artistic Director of the Audi Summer Concerts in Ingolstadt.

Highlights of the 2018/19 season include the concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, the Boston, Chicago and BBC Symphony Orchestras as well as tours with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Camerata Salzburg, the Accademia Nazionalie di Santa Cecilia and as part of a trio with Gautier Capuçon and Jean-Yves Thibaudet. This violinist has also thrilled audiences as Artist in Residence with the Munich-based Konzertdirektion Hörtnagel.

As a Deutsche Grammophon exclusive artist, Lisa Batiashvili has most recently released the album ›Visions of Prokofiev‹ with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, which was awarded the 2018 Opus Klassik Award and which has been nominated for the Gramophone Award 2018. Previous recordings include the violin concertos by Tchaikovsky and Sibelius with Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin.

Having studied with Ana Chumachenco and Mark Lubotsky, Lisa Batiashvili gained international recognition as the youngest participant to take part in the Sibelius Competition at 16 years of age.  She was named Instrumentalist of the Year by Musical America in 2015, was named Gramophone’s Artist of the Year in 2017 and in 2018 received an honorary doctorate from the Sibelius Academy of the University of Arts in Helsinki.

Lisa Batiashvili plays a 1739 Joseph Guarneri ›del Gesu‹ violin, on generous loan from a private collector.

Estonian conductor and Grammy Award winner Paavo Järvi has been Artistic Director of The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, his only German orchestra, since 2004. One highlight of the collaboration were the celebrated concerts of the Beethoven cycle, which received critical acclaim worldwide. Järvi received numerous awards for the recordings, including the ›Echo Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹ and the prestigious ›Annual Prize of the German Record Critics‹.

Following the Beethoven project, he and the orchestra tackled the symphonic works of Schumann and Brahms, which received similarly enthusiastic reviews. Paavo Järvi is also Principal Conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Advisor to the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the Järvi Summer Festival in Pärnu, Estonia, and since 2019/20 Artistic Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. He regularly makes appearances as guest conductor with orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras, the Staatskappelle Dresden and the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago and the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, he was named ›Artist of the Year‹ by the renowned British magazine Gramophone and the French magazine Diapason. In 2019, he received the ›Opus Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹.