Lisi Namchevadze, born in 2008, is one of the outstanding young pianists of her generation. Her exceptional musical talent showed itself early, and she has developed it steadily at the Stuttgart Music School since 2012. Since 2023 she has been a pre-college student at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts, and from 2026 she will begin her Bachelor’s degree at the Royal College of Music in London. In 2025 she was awarded the international title “Young Steinway Artist”. Elisabeth Namchevadze is a multiple prizewinner at numerous national and international competitions. As early as 2018 she won First Prize at the Kleiner Schumann Competition in Zwickau, together with a special prize for the best interpretation of a work by W. A. Mozart. Prizes followed at, among others, the International Rotary Piano Competition in Essen, the American Protégé International Concerto Competition in New York, the Carl Bechstein Competition in Berlin (First Prize), the Steinway Piano Competition in Hamburg (First Prize) and the VIII Tbilisi International Young Pianists Competition, where she also won First Prize. She has repeatedly been awarded First Prizes at the national finals of Jugend musiziert. Her most recent successes include First Prize at the Charleston International Piano Competition (USA), the Absolute First Prize at the Orbetello International Piano Competition (Italy) and further first prizes at international competitions in Brescia and Montecatini. For her outstanding Beethoven interpretations she received the Hermann J. Abs Prize in 2023 and 2024. A sought-after soloist, Elisabeth Namchevadze has performed in major concert halls at home and abroad, including the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Mozartsaal and Beethovensaal of the Liederhalle Stuttgart, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall in New York and the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, as well as in Tbilisi, Berlin and the Netherlands. She has appeared with renowned orchestras such as the Georgian Symphony Orchestra, the Tbilisi Youth Orchestra, the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra and the Stuttgart Philharmonic. For the 2025/26 season opening she performed two Mozart piano concertos with the Stuttgart Philharmonic in the Beethovensaal of the Liederhalle Stuttgart. Further solo appearances have taken her to New York, Amsterdam and Tbilisi, among other places. Her artistic development has been supported by numerous scholarships, including the Carl Heinz Illies Scholarship of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, scholarships from the Lang, Lenz, Oscar and Vera Ritter and Musica foundations, and several years of annual scholarships from the Drews Stiftung. She has received valuable musical inspiration in masterclasses with distinguished artists such as Robert Levin, Angelika Merkle, Hans-Peter Stenzl, Anna Fedorova, Manfred Aust and Norma Fischer, and with other internationally renowned teachers. Elisabeth Namchevadze’s repertoire spans a broad range from the Baroque to the modern era, with works by J. S. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Bartók, Prokofiev and Ligeti, among others, complemented by an extensive concerto and chamber music repertoire. The press has praised her “technical brilliance and remarkable musical maturity far beyond her years” as well as her “exceptional stage presence and great artistic expressiveness”.
