Tsinandali Festival 2019
By Mariam Chanishvili
Wednesday, September 25
Classical music festival in Tsinandali concluded on September 22.
The final concert took place in the open amphitheater with the Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra (PCYO), a Chinese classical pianist Yuja Wang and an Israeli conductor and pianist, Lahav Shani.
Wang was born in Beijing, began studying piano at age six, and went on to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
Lahav Shani has established himself as one of the most talked-about conducting talents today, making a huge impression with his astonishing maturity. Shani is the son of Michael Shani, a choral conductor. He began piano lessons at age 6 with Hannah Shalgi. He continued his piano studies from Arie Vardi at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv.
Out of 30 concerts that took place within the frames of the festival, 16 of them were broadcast live on Medic.tv, one of the most popular music channels of classical music. Medici.tv is an online platform for streaming classical music videos created in 2008 by Herve Boissiere. The Medici.tv catalog provides approximately 1600 films available by subscription, as well as hundreds of events which are broadcast live for free each year, available for 90 days. Journalists and media representatives from different countries visited the estate of Chavchavadze family.
Up to 300 musicians participated in the festival.
“Giovanni Guzzo conducts Beethoven, Martin Frost plays and conducts Mozart, Lahav Shani conducts Shostakovich – with Yuja Wang and Chris Scanlon; Catch the talented and audacious Martin Froest, Yuja Wang, and Chris Scanlon in a program full of surprises and virtuosity: watch as clarinet, trumpet, and piano dialogue in music by Mozart, Shostakovich, and Beethoven with the help of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra under Giovanni Guzzo and Lahav Shani,” reads the information along with the video presented on medici.tv, which is available until October 20.
Throughout the 15 days of the festival, the audience had a chance to experience the first year of Tsinandali Festival during September 8-22, 2019 featuring legendary conductors and virtuoso soloists such as Gianandrea Noseda, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Andras Schiff, Yuja Wang, Fazil Say, Lisa Batiashvili, Thomas Hampson, Gautier Capucon, Renaud Capucon, Official: Mischa Maisky, Pinchas Zukerman:Viola, Edgar Moreau, Lahav Shani, George Li, Omer Meir Wellber, Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra and many others.
Tsinandali Festival is a Georgian non-profit foundation. Our primary focus is on promoting the language of music in the region, crossroads of Europe and Asia. The Festival is designed to create rare opportunities for young musicians from the Caucasus and neighboring countries to explore the world of music and advance their musical education through professional seminars and master classes taught by some of the brightest names in today’s classical music.
The Festival established a Music Academy and a Pan Caucasian Youth Orchestra (PCYO) composed of young musicians from around the globe selected through annual auditions arranged jointly by the Verbier and Tsinandali Festival representatives.
Tsinandali Festival is presented by Silknet, while the Festival Partner is TBC Status and ALMA - Advertising Company.
