Rising Stars / Mariam Batsashvili

Franz Liszt became a musician of reference for the young pianist even before the competition. As a student at the University of Music in Weimar, the long-time domain of the composer, she feels strongly connected to him. Meanwhile, it has become one of her missions as an artist to further familiarise her audience with the admired composer and to challenge the widely spread prejudice that Liszt’s compositions are only about virtuosity and volume. Mariam Batsashvili chooses two of her idol’s works for her performance in Hamburg: an arrangement of Handel as well as his famous Sonata in B minor. The latter is deemed one of the most technically challenging piano works of the Romantic period. Batsashvili will certainly explain more about Liszt in the Meet the Artist discussion preceding the concert.