Mariam Batsashvili

Programme:
Mozart - Sonata No. 8 in D major KV 311
Chopin - Six Polish Songs, Op. 74 (arranged for Piano by Franz Liszt)
Liszt - Rhapsodie espagnole (Spanish Rhapsody), S.254

INTERVAL

Ravel - Sonatine for Piano
Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a (arranged for Piano by M. Pletnev)

Mariam Batsashvili set the 2018 and 2019 Festivals alight with her memorable performances of Liszt, Chopin, Schubert and Mozart. She makes a welcome return to the Festival for this exuberantly colourful programme. Her passion for Liszt once again takes centre stage, with performances of both his virtuosic tour-de-force, the Rhapsodie espagnole, and his arrangement of Chopin’s Polish Songs, as well as music by Mozart and Ravel. The programme concludes with a solo piano scoring of Tchaikovsky’s iconic Nutcracker Suite by pianist Mikhail Pletnev.

In 2014, Mariam Batshashvili became the first female musician to win the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition. An ECHO Rising Star and a BBC New Generation Artist, she is recognised as one of the most exciting young pianists of her generation and has recently released her first CD on Warner Classics and made her BBC Proms debut.