Cellist Balazs Mate and Georgian Sinfonietta to perform together
By Mariam Chanishvili
Wednesday, February 13
The concert of Baroque music will be held at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire.
Famous Hungarian cellist, Balazs Mate (cello) and "Georgian Sinfonietta" will perform together place on February 16 at Conservatoire Recital Hall.
The artists will perform music by C.P.E. Bach, H. Purcell, A. Corelli and G.F. Handel.
Several master classes are planned along with the concert.
Mate began playing cello at the age of eight at the "Bela Bartok Music School". He then studied chamber music at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest.
From 1985 to 1992 he was a member of the "Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra". From 1990 to 1992 he studied baroque cello and took part in chamber music courses with Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Salzburg Mozarteum.
He became a founding member of the baroque orchestra "Concerto Armonico" and the "Trio Cristofori", in 1996 he founded the baroque ensemble "Aura Musicale".
Since 2004, he is a cello teacher with the Baroque Orchestra of the European Union (EUBO).
Founded in 2008, Tbilisi State Chamber Orchestra – Georgian Sinfonietta aims to deliver the most diverse repertoire at the highest artistic level. The schedule of the orchestra includes performances both in Georgia and Europe, as well as regions of Georgia, where the popularization of chamber music has been a great success.
Georgian Sinfonietta has performed in celebrated venues such as Konzerthaus Berlin, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and is a regular guest to festivals including Autumn Tbilisi, Tbilisi Wind Festival, Tbilisi Chamber Music Festival, Telavi International Music Festival, Opernfestival Gut Immling, “Goldberg Festival” of Gdansk (Poland) and others.
Within the framework of “Frankfurter Buchmesse 2018”, on 17 August at Berlin Konzerthaus by the festival “Young Euro Classic” was held chamber and electronic music concert where participated “Georgian Sinfonietta”, Dudana Mazmanishvili (piano), Kristjan Jarvi (conductor) and DJ – Irakli Kiziria.
