Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt
The Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt is in Tbilisi based (Georgia) and after 1990 Ingolstadt on siedeltes (Bayern) Chamber Orchestra .
development
Since moving to Germany in 1990, the Georgian Chamber Orchestra has been based in Ingolstadt . In the meantime, with the support of the city of Ingolstadt, AUDI AG and Sparkasse Ingolstadt , the former exile orchestra has become an integral part of regional and national cultural life. The ensemble's concert series, which has been held in Ingolstadt since 2001, has consistently received high numbers of subscribers.
The ensemble was founded in 1964 in Tbilisi / Georgia as the Georgian State Chamber Orchestra and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2014. After the orchestra was based in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, for the first 26 years, it moved to Ingolstadt, where it has now found its second home for 24 years. But the new life in Bavaria is nothing more than a continuation of the old one under different conditions. Because continuity is the principle of this very Eastern European orchestra, which has always been able to preserve its character, even in exile. Almost only musicians from Georgia, the former Soviet Union, at least from Eastern Europe still play in the Ingolstadt ensemble.
The Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt sees itself as an ensemble that not only feels responsible for a very broad repertoire, but also develops activities outside the subscription series as a cultural ambassador for the city of Ingolstadt. Around sixty concerts a year also regularly take the orchestra to music festivals such as the Kreuth International Music Festival , the Oettinger Residence Concerts or the Festive Summer in the Wies, as well as to concerts abroad, including Spain, France, Georgia and Switzerland. The ensemble has been an integral part of the summer concerts, a series of AUDI AG events.
Since 2010 the ensemble has been funded by the Free State of Bavaria as a non-state cultural orchestra.
Artist
The orchestra was significantly artistically shaped by its long-time director, the violinist Liana Issakadze , as well as conductors such as Yehudi Menuhin and Kurt Masur . Markus Poschner directed the ensemble from 2000 to 2006 . He was followed by Ariel Zuckermann until 2011 . Lavard Skou Larsen then took over the position of chief conductor. While the Los Angeles-born conductor Benjamin Shwartz was the artistic director of the chamber orchestra in 2014, the Armenian Ruben Gazarian will be the chief conductor of the Georgians from 2015 . Gazarian was artistic director of the renowned Württemberg Chamber Orchestra in Heilbronn from 2002 to 2018 .
Well-known guest conductors and international artists such as David Oistrach , Barbara Hendricks , Swjatoslaw Richter or Daniil Schafran have performed with the orchestra, as in the recent past Heinrich Schiff , Tabea Zimmermann , Juan Diego Flórez , Gidon Kremer , Edita Gruberová , Giora Feidman , Elisso Wirsaladse , Lynn Harrell , Rudolf Buchbinder , Christian Zacharias , Lisa Batiashvili , François Leleux , Natalja Gutman , Sharon Kam , Diana Damrau , Zoltán Kocsis , Alfredo Perl , the Kolsimcha Ensemble, Gilles Apap , Maxim Wengerow , Nikolai Tokarew and Chatia Buniatischwili .
Discography (a selection)
- 2015 Musical melting pot Prague (ARS production) with works by Bohuslav Martinů . Storioni Trio and Ruben Gazarian (lead)
- 2015 Swiss Made (ARS production) with works by Paul Juon , Fabian Müller , Arthur Honegger and Ernest Bloch . Kamilla Schatz (violin), Pi-Chin Chien (violoncello) and Ruben Gazarian (direction)
- 2011 Georgian miniatures (Oehms Classic) with works by Sulchan Nassidze , Joseph Bardanashvili and Sulchan Zinzadze . Alexander Korsantia (piano) and Ariel Zuckermann (lead)
- 2004 Kartuli Musika (Guild Music) with works by Sulchan Nassidze , Igor Loboda and Sulchan Zinzadze . Markus Poschner (Head)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Farewell to the WKO , on: SWR of May 18, 2018