Lisa Batiashvili doesn’t just play the violin—she conjures worlds with it. Hailed as “the complete musician” (The Times, London), she has mesmerized audiences in the world’s most revered halls — including a spellbinding 2015 appearance in Richardson Auditorium. Now, in this rare and intimate duo recital, she joins forces with Giorgi Gigashvili, the young Georgian pianist protégé of Martha Argerich, whose volcanic energy and poetic touch are making waves across the globe. Their program is a journey through raw emotion and staggering virtuosity—Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 3 brims with charm and fire, setting the stage for Prokofiev’s haunting Violin Sonata No. 1—a masterpiece of shadow and intensity, where ghostly whispers, icy lyricism, and explosive power push both musicians to the edge. A new work by Josef Bardanashvili, a fellow Georgian whose music pulses with mystery and soul, makes its Princeton debut before the night closes in the rapture of Franck’s Violin Sonata—a piece so intoxicatingly beautiful it’s been called “a love letter in music.” This concert is a high-voltage meeting of artistic minds, generations, and traditions—a program of music that grabs you and doesn’t let go, performed by two of the most magnetic artists of our time.

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Lisa Batiashvili, Violin Giorgi Gigashvili, Piano

Richardson Auditorium

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Josef Bardanashvili

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Past events

Apr 30, 2026

Lisa Batiashvili, Violin Giorgi Gigashvili, Piano · Princeton University Concerts

Oct 28, 2024

Azrieli Music Prizes Gala Concert · Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal

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