Tbilisi Baroque Festival: 10 November to 14 December 2016

The Tbilisi Baroque Festival will be held from 10 November to 14 December 2016 in Tbiisi, Georgia. Eight concerts will be performed on the small stage of the Shota Rustaveli State Drama Theatre. Each performance will include traditional instruments.

The Georgian Sinfonietta, also called the Tbilisi State Chamber Orchestra, will host the Tbilisi Baroque Festival with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia. The Georgian Sinfonietta is the only academic ensemble of old music in the Caucasus region. This is the second year of the festival – the inaugural festival was held in November and December 2015.

The concerts will include: German conductor Christoph Mayer; German-based conductor Cornelia von Kerssenbrock; Belgium Thomas Baete, viola da gamba; French Jean Rondeau, harpsichord; Australian flautist Georgia Browne; Italian David Amadio, cello; American-Korean soprano Kristen Witmer; and Georgian artists David Gogolashvili, Mikheil Abramishvili, Anna Podorolskaya, and Georgi Kuzanashvili. They will perform works by composers such as Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), and George Frideric Handel (1685-1759).

Baroque is a French word for ‘rough or imperfect pearl’ – an artistic style of the 1600s in architecture, sculpture, painting, literature, and music.

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MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author of:- The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

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