(1935-08-10)10 August 1935 Tiflis, Georgian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR
Died
2 October 2019(2019-10-02) (aged 84) Tbilisi
Genres
Soundtrack, classical music
Occupation(s)
Composer
Instrument(s)
Piano, keyboard, synthesizer
Years active
1961–2019
Signature
Musical artist
Gia Kancheli (Georgian: გია ყანჩელი; 10 August 1935 – 2 October 2019)[1] was a Georgian composer.[2] He was born in Tbilisi, Georgia but resided in Belgium.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Kancheli lived first in Berlin, and from 1995 in Antwerp, where he became composer-in-residence for the Royal Flemish Philharmonic.[3] He died in his home city of Tbilisi, aged 84.
^n.a. (28 October 2019). "Giya Kancheli obituary". The Times (London). Retrieved 30 October 2019.
^Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 318–319. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
^"Giya Kancheli turns 75 on 10 August". Sikorski. August 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
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traditional Georgian folk harmonies in polyphony. Georgian composer GiyaKancheli made an iconic score for the production of Rustaveli Theatre in Tbilisi...
ECM New Series ECM 1471 1992 Kim Kashkashian, Dennis Russell Davies GiyaKancheli: Vom Winde Beweint ECM New Series ECM 1472/73 1993 Heinz Holliger Scardanelli-Zyklus...
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and several chamber works. Terterian was a friend and colleague of GiyaKancheli, Konstantin Orbelyan, and Tigran Mansurian. Dmitri Shostakovich praised...
husband, oboist François Leleux, commissioned from the Georgian composer GiyaKancheli the double concerto Broken Chant, which they premiered in February 2008...
Symphony. He has recorded or performed live the premieres of works by GiyaKancheli, Peteris Vasks, Lera Auerbach (24 Preludes, recorded on BIS), and Sofia...
Pärt and included in its concerts works by John Cage, Gavin Bryars, GiyaKancheli, and Heinz Holliger. The group was founded by Paul Hillier, Errol Girdlestone...
national honours and prizes. The Third Symphony of the Georgian composer GiyaKancheli drew inspiration from Gonashvili's singing, and he was himself the soloist...
3 – Georgy Shonin, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (d. 1997) August 10 GiyaKancheli, Soviet and Georgian composer (d. 2019) Laurynas Stankevičius, 7th Prime...
recognition during his life as a close friend and strong advocate of composer GiyaKancheli, recording his entire cycle of seven symphonies, along with many other...
Valentyn Sylvestrov, Tigran Mansurian, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Heinz Holliger, GiyaKancheli, György Kurtág, or Heiner Goebbels as well as the soundtracks of several...
Mohn und Gedächtnis), "Psalm" (from Die Niemandsrose), set to music by GiyaKancheli as parts II–IV of Exil, sung by Maacha Deubner, ECM (1995) Pulse Shadows...
to numerous world premieres of works by composers such as Arvo Pärt, GiyaKancheli Pēteris Vasks, Leonid Desyatnikov, Alexander Raskatov, Artūrs Maskats...
Subscription Series in 1998 (WORMSS2). Little Imber by the Georgian composer GiyaKancheli is a piece for small ensemble, voice, children's and men's choirs. It...
String Quartet, György Kurtág, Krzysztof Penderecki, Alfred Schnittke, GiyaKancheli, Arvo Pärt, Peter Eötvös, Ken Ueno, Thomas Larcher, Lera Auerbach, Tigran...
author of lyrics for the songs by Revaz Lagidze, Giorgi Tsabadze, and GiyaKancheli, including for Lagidze's Tbiliso (Song of Tbilisi), one of the best...
Australia) Air and Other Invisible Forces (1999; Michael Askill and GiyaKancheli) Bard Bits (1991; Cleo Laine and John Dankworth) Beauty and the Beast...
including Miklós Rózsa, Revol Bunin, Alfred Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina, GiyaKancheli and Krzysztof Penderecki, have written viola concertos. The American...
Hank Cochran, country music singer/songwriter (died 2010) August 10 – GiyaKancheli, Soviet and Georgian composer (died 2019) August 15 – Jim Dale, singer-songwriter...
Making Music with John McLaughlin and Hariprasad Chaurasia (ECM, 1986) GiyaKancheli, Caris Mere (1995) Kim Kashkashian, Monodia (ECM, 2004) – rec. 2002...
Alan Hovhaness (the earliest mystic minimalist), Sofia Gubaidulina, GiyaKancheli, Hans Otte, Pēteris Vasks and Vladimír Godár. Despite being grouped...
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