Mariam Batsashvili – 1st prize winner in 2014 Liszt Piano Competition is touring South Africa in March 2016!!!
On 8 November 2014 Mariam Batsashvili (Georgia, 1993) won First Prize at the 10th in Utrecht. She received her prize in the main hall of TivoliVredenburg, in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Máxima. “Winner Batsashvili turns every phrase into something special”, was the headline in the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad.
Batsashvili also took home the Junior Jury Award and the Press Prize. The International Press Jury called her a “complete artist” with an “amazing touch” and full of “heartfelt emotion”.
Batsashvili is the first female First Prize winner of the Liszt Competition. As a winner she will embark on an extensive concert tour, taking her to more than twenty countries. As early as the morning after the Finals in Utrecht’s TivoliVredenburg she made her debut to a sold-out audience in the main hall of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam together with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of James Gaffigan.
South African recital dates:
Cape Town 14th March 2016 6:30pm Durban 16th March 2016 6:30pm
For more information on venues & tickets, please visit: www.mariambatsashvili.co.za or https://www.facebook.com/mariamzatour/