Semi Finale - Liszt Piano Competition 2014

Semi Finale - Liszt Piano Competition 2014

Works: Händel/Liszt: Sarabande und Chaconne über Themen aus dem Singspiel Almira, S.181, Rapsodie hongroise XIII, S244/13, Im Rhein, im schönen Strome, S272i (Soloist: Peter Gijsbertsen), Ich möchte hingehn, S296iii (Soloist: Estefaniá Perdomo), Mozart/Liszt: Fantasie über Themen aus die Oper Le Nozze di Figaro un Don Giovanni, S697. Pianist 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 such as the First Prize at the International Franz Liszt Competition for Young Pianists in Weimar in 2011 and Second Prize at the María Herrero International Piano Competition in Granada in 2012. Aside from her native country Georgia, Mariam Batsashvili has performed in such countries as Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Russia, Israel, South Africa and China, both in recitals and with orchestras. She was a soloist with the Philharmonisches Orchester Erfurt and with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra on numerous occasions.