It is a happy coincidence that they are performing at the Tonhalle Zurich in the same week: Lisa Batiashvili, the Georgian star violinist, and Tsotne Zedginidze, the pianist and composer who was also born in Georgia in 2009. He will be making his Zurich debut as part of the Série jeunes. And she will be sitting in the audience as his mentor before rehearsals for her own performance begin the following day.
Three years have passed since Lisa Batiashvili set up a foundation to support young Georgian musicians - Tsotne Zedginidze is one of them. He is a "talent of the century", she says, "he has an exuberant imagination and a way of composing that goes straight to the heart". She supports him not only with such words, but also with her art: she performs with him time and again, most recently at the Berlin Philharmonie, where she was a resident artist last season and also performed works by and with Tsotne Zedginidze in a chamber music concert programme.
In Zurich, he will have the stage to himself. He will play works by Beethoven and Schumann as well as one of his own compositions, for which he has been practising on a grand piano on loan from Lisa Batiashvili's foundation.
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