Tbilisi Youth Orchestra artists mark Beethoven anniversary with performance from home [VIDEO]
Tbilisi Youth Orchestra musicians performed their individual pieces before they were edited together for the homage. Screenshot from the video.
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A performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ode to Joy by the Tbilisi Youth Orchestra celebrated the 250th anniversary of the birth of the composer despite self-isolation of the performers amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
In a video edit released by the orchestra on social media, musicians of the group are seen performing their individual parts of the 1824 movement of the Symphony No. 9 of the great composer.
Combined in a single video through editing by the orchestra's co-founder and conductor Mirian Khukhunaishvili, the performance was selected as a way to pay homage to Beethoven while public shows are suspended due to the outbreak.
In bringing together pieces of individual orchestra members through editing the Tbilisi-based group has joined the likes of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, who recorded their own digital rendition of the famed piece in the new reality of self-isolation.
Violinist Lisa Batiashvili will be artist in residence for this year's Rheingau Music Festival in Germany's west, making four appearances during the wide-ranging event that has attracted a raft of performers and audience since the 1980s.
Four Tbilisi events starting next week will bring classical sound to venues that do not usually host concerts, with prized artists including Kolja Blacher and Dang Thai Son headlining the second edition of the Classical Music in Alternative Environment series.
Georgian conductor Mirian Khukhunaishvili will return to his homeland following shows in Europe to celebrate Polish music in a concert involving award-winning violinist Kamila Wasik-Janiak and the Podkarpacka Philharmonic Orchestra in Tbilisi on Saturday.
A month-long festival is underway to celebrate a major anniversary of the Tbilisi State Conservatoire, with musical artists, bands and foreign guests joining in festivities opened on Monday.
With classical and baroque music enthusiasts staying at home on the advice of the government amid the pandemic, the Georgian Sinfonietta orchestra has decided to bring its concert recordings to them via YouTube.
The Tbilisi Youth Orchestra will celebrate 250 years since the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven with their first post-lockdown concert in Tbilisi next week.
Amsterdam's Concertgebouw venue will host a series of Ammodo Masterclass, a public event involving young conducting talents learn from a master of the trade, this summer, with Georgia's Mirian Khukhunaishvili picked among four names from across the world to feature in the performance.
Mirian Khukhunaishvili made history by becoming the first conductor to win both the Paavo Järvi Scholarship and the international audience vote at this year's Conductors' Academy of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich on Friday.