⚡️ June 11, 3 pm – VERE MUSIC HUB (Kyiv, Malopidvalna St., 21/8). Registration of listeners: https://forms.gle/eRPcimYzbbWwUJco8.
A meeting of Nikoloz Rachveli with young conductors and composers, arrangers, performers, and musicologists who want to participate in projects with music by our contemporaries.
This is what we are going to talk about:
– How do projects featuring collaboration with living composers differ from the rest?
– What do you remember about your joint projects with Giya Kancheli, Arvo Pärt and other famous contemporaries?
– Creating music – where does the composer end and the conductor begin?
– How composers and conductors can plan their professional lives to be in “tomorrow” and not “yesterday”.
– How does the music landscape in Georgia differ from the Ukrainian one?
– Are we part of the European music world?
The meeting will take place as part of the VERE MUSIC ACADEMY project.
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VERE MUSIC HUB This is an artistic ecosystem – a space for young musicians and listeners created by the VERE MUSIC FUND. It consists of an upper hall with 100 seats for concerts, recordings, master classes, lectures, etc. and a lower rehearsal hall. The venue is located at 21/8 Malopidvalna Street, Kyiv.
VERE MUSIC FUND A charitable fund established in 2017 by Tetiana Verevska. The Fund provides grants to Ukrainian musicians to participate in international competitions and master classes, and implements festival projects and educational initiatives. It also supports international music competitions in Ukraine.
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Nikoloz Rachveli is a Georgian composer, conductor and pianist, and director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Georgia.
Born in 1979. He first stood at the conductor’s console at the age of 10. He received his musical education at the Tbilisi State Conservatory (Composition Department), graduating in 2005. In 1999-2003 he studied at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (Austria). In 2003, he conducted the premiere of Giya Kancheli’s vocal-instrumental work Little Imber, recorded by ECM Records.
In 2004, he became the musical director of the Vaso Abashidze Tbilisi Music and Drama Theater. In 2005-2007, he directed the National Music Center of Georgia, which united the National Symphony Orchestra of Georgia, the State Chapel of Georgia and the String Quartet. He founded the KONTRAPUNKT Festival of Contemporary Music and the Festival of String Quartets. Since 2007, he has been the Chief Conductor and General Director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Georgia. Later, he also became the conductor of the Vaso Abashidze Tbilisi Theater of Music and Drama.
He is the author of numerous compositions in various styles for theater performances, films, television programs, and music projects. He has created arrangements for many works by Georgian and foreign composers. He was the musical director of Jacopo Peri’s opera Euridice, projects by Georgian composer Giya Kancheli, and conducted many original concerts by Georgian composers.
Over the years, he has collaborated with Monserrate Caballé, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessye Norman, Lalo Shifrin, Seiji Ozawa, Pierre Boulez, Michel Legrand, and Liana Isakadze, Paata Burchuladze, Nino Machaidze, Khatia Buniatishvili, Benjamin Marquise Gilmore, Marius Urba, Avi Avital, Gan Levy, Anita Rachvelishvili and many other artists.