‘Songs of Jansugh Kakhidze’ series of concerts to take place in Tbilisi
By Mariam Chanishvili
Thursday, February 28
A series of concerts - ‘Songs of Jansugh Kakhidze’, dedicated to the memory of the famous Georgian composer and conductor, will be held in Tbilisi in March. The evenings will be held on the stage of the Kakhidze Music and Cultural Center.
Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble "Rustavi" and Eka Mamaladze will participate in the concert on March 7 at Kakhidze Music Center.
March 7 is a date of Djansug Kakhidze’s death that is always celebrated symbolically by Tbilisi Center for Music & Culture with special concert program.
This year, this concert will be the opening of Vakhtang Kakhidze Jubilee Concert-series in which he will honor the memory of his father and show one of the important fields of his diverse creative activities.
In the concert, Vakhtang Kakhidze will be presented as conductor, pianist, singer and author of orchestral arrangements. His creative collaboration with his father started at the year of 17 when he was singing and playing piano during the audio recordings of Jansugh Kakhidze’s songs.
Jansugh Kakhidze was music director of the Georgian State Symphony Orchestra for two decades beginning in 1973. He is the father of composer and conductor Vakhtang Kakhidze.
Highlights of Djansug Kakhidze's career included numerous appearances conducting throughout Europe and Australia.
His performance of Berlioz's Damnation of Faust with the Orchestre de Paris in 1990 drew high praise from critics and helped him to secure further international success in places such as the United States, where appeared as a guest conductor with both the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra.
Jansugh Kakhidze Tbilisi Center for Music & Culture has been established in 1989. The idea of its formation came to famous Georgian conductor Djansug Kakhidze in 1976. While there was not the hall, which satisfied all requirements necessary for the performance of symphonic music, it has been essential to creating a new modern venue fitted out with all useful conditions.
From 2002, since the death of Maestro Jansugh Kakhidze Tbilisi Center for Music & Culture and adjacent garden, the former “State Philharmonic Auditorium”, has been named after its founder Jansugh Kakhidze.
