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Mariam Batsashvili ranks among the most promising young pianists of her generation. She gained international recognition at the Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht 2014. With the start of the 2017/18 season, she became a BBC New Generation Artist. Mariam gained her first experiences with leading symphony orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Brussels Philharmonic as well as the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. She has given recitals in more than 30 countries, incl. China, South Korea, Indonesia, Brazil, the USA, South Africa, France, Spain, Norway, the Baltic countries, Benelux and Germany. She has been the guest of many international festivals, such as the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Piano City festival in Milan and the Piano aux Jacobins festival in Toulouse, and concert halls such as the Tonhalle Zurich, the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Wigmore Hall and the Philharmonie Berlin. Born in Tbilisi, Mariam first studied with Natalia Natsvlishvili at the E. Mikeladze Central Music School in her hometown, before continuing at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar. In 2011 she won the International Liszt Competition for Young Pianists in Weimar, and received the prestigious Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Award in 2015. In August 2019 she released her first album for Warner Classics with solo works by Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin.