Lizi Ramishvili was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1997. She began studying the cello at the age of seven and gave her first concert just over a year later. She studied at the Paliashvili Central Music School with Tamara Gabarashvili and continued her studies at the Pre-College of the Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson. She later deepened her studies at the Geneva Conservatory. In 2017, she moved to Spain to study with Prof. Jens Peter Maintz at the Reina Sofía School of Music, where she received a scholarship from the Fundación Albéniz.
Ramishvili won the 1st Prize and the Golden Nutcracker at the Nutcracker International TV Competition in Russia and the Grand Prize at the Renaissance International Competition in Armenia. She was also the winner of the Georgian final of the Eurovision Young Musicians Competition 2012 and took part in the international final. In 2017, she was awarded the Zhvania Tsinandali Award for Young Scholars and Artists and received full scholarships from the foundations of Mstislav Rostropovich, Nikolai Miaskovky and Boris Pergamenschikov.
Ramishvili has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Berlin Konzerthaus and at leading international festivals such as the Rheingau Music Festival, the Ruhr Piano Festival, Musica Mundi, Young Euro Classic, the Kronberg Academy Festival, Energy for Life, Arpeggione, Peregrinos Musicales, Al Bustan, International Mstislav Rostropovich Festival, Winter Festival and Moscow Meets Friends.
Her stage partners include Ivry Gitlis (†), Yuri Bashmet, Renaud Capuçon, Khatia Buniatishvili, Gvantsa Buniatishvili, Kazuki Yamada, Pietari Inkinen and many others. She has performed with orchestras such as the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, the Real Filharmonía de Galicia, the Arpeggione Hohenems Chamber Orchestra, the Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra, the Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia, the National Symphony Orchestra of Azerbaijan, the Novaya Rossiya State Symphony Orchestra and the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of conductors such as Yuri Bashmet, Benjamin Shwartz and Saulius Sondeckis.