Batsashvili to perform piano recital in Durban

MARIAM Batsashvili, the winner of the 2014 Liszt Piano Competition, will tour South Africa this March.

Batsashvili received her prize in the main hall of Tivoli Vredenburg in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Maxima on 8 November, 2014. She also took home the Junior Jury Award and the Press Prize. The International Press Jury called her a ‘complete artist’ with an ‘amazing touch’ and full of ‘heartfelt emotion’.

Batsashvili is the first female first prize winner of this competition. As a winner, she will embark on an extensive concert tour, taking her to more than 20 countries. As early as the morning after the finals in Utrecht’s Tivoli Vredenburg, she made her début to a sold-out audience in the main hall of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam together with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of James Gaffigan.

Her recital date in Durban will be held at Howard College Theatre at UKZN in Durban on Wednesday, 16 March at 6.30pm. Tickets can only be purchased online through www.mariambatsashvili.co.za.