| Mariam Batsashvili | |
| Birth Date: | 1 June 1993 |
| Birth Place: | Tbilisi, Georgia |
| Genre: | Classical |
| Occupation: | Pianist |
| Years Active: | 2004–present |
Mariam Batsashvili (Georgian: მარიამ ბაწაშვილი) is a classical pianist from Georgia.
Batsashvili started playing piano when she was 5 under Natalia Natsvlishvili at the E. Mikeladze Central Music School before continuing at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar with Grigory Gruzman.[1] In 2014, she won the 10th Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht, after having already triumphed in the International Franz Liszt Competition for Young Pianists in Weimar in 2011.[2] [3]
The following year, she had received the Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Prize and she spent the 2016–17 season as a ‘Rising Star’ of the European Concert Hall Organization (ECHO).[4]
Since 2017 she has been an official Yamaha artist.
Between 2017 and 2019, Mariam Batsashvili was one of the BBC's New Generation Artists [5]
In 2019, her debut album with Warner Classics (Chopin-Liszt) was released.