Violinist Lisa Batiashvili in running for Artist of the Year online poll
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Germany-based Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili is in running for the Artist of the Year award of a leading classical music review magazine Gramophone among 10 of the most impressive artists selected for online voting.
Batiashvili was shortlisted for the annual public poll alongside internationally recognised artists including British pianist Imogen Cooper, German violinist Isabelle Faust and Russian conductor Vasily Petrenko.
The Georgian violinist's claim for this year's prize was reinforced by her recording of works by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Jean Sibelius, performed with the Staatskapelle Berlin orchestra led by famed conductor and pianist, Daniel Barenboim.
Released by German label Deutsche Grammophon, the album was named Recording of the Month of January by Gramophone.
It was praised for "luminous playing of Batiashvili and the Staatskapelle Berlin under Daniel Barenboim" in the magazine's review, with their musical quality again stressed in the ongoing poll for the Artist of the Year award.
Two of the great violin concertos came courtesy of Lisa Batiashvili this year, in performances of enormous maturity and originality", said the summary of Batiashvili's nomination for the prize.
Voting for the award is scheduled to run through July 31, with the eventual winner to be revealed at the Gramophone Classical Music Awards in September.
The Gramophone Artist of the Year winner is decided via the public voting, while recipients of the magazine's other awards are singled out by a panel of critics.
Georgian-born Batiashvili has been based in Germany since the early 1990s. A graduate of the Hamburg High School of Music, she is currently Artist in Residence for Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Named 2015 Musical America Instrumentalist of the Year, she was praised for "meticulous musicality and emotional power" by the online platform.
Batiashvili is a recipient two ECHO Klassik awards, MIDEM Classical Award and Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival's Leonard Bernstein Award.
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