Gori Women's Choir

Shalva Mosidze - Artistic Director and Chief Conductor

Shalva Mosidze - one of the founders of the Gori Women's Chamber Choir, its unchanged Artistic Director and Conductor, Professor of Tbilisi State Conservatoire, People's artist of Georgia, Laureate of international choir music competitions (1986, 1988) and the Zakaria Paliashvili State Prize winner (1991), holder of the Order of Honour (1996).
All the success of the choir is associated with the name of Sh. Mosidze. The choir played as great a role in the development of Mosidze's performance style, as did the conductor in the professional perfection of the choir. Sh. Mosidze as a musician is noted for a refined sense of sound. He has his own sound ideal, to which he aspires whole-heartedly during the entire rehearsal process. Such detailed work results in remarkable mutual understanding between the conductor and the performers. Owing to this, every peculiar gesture of the conductor, free of any conventionality, is especially expressive for the singers. Mosidze seeks for a suitable singing position for each sound, works on individual phrases and produces on the stage the artistic whole made up of parts of perfect sounding. Mosidze's original manner of working transformed the choir into a brilliant instrument, able to overcome any technical and creative task, to perform a composition of any time and national style in accordance with its conductor's artistic will. That is why, the music of the Early Middle Ages and the present day, Classical- Romantic music and works of Georgian composers sound in the "Mosidze's style".
The masterly performance of Sh. Mosidze and his choir is appreciated greatly in the Georgian and foreign press.
Suffice it to cite one review of numerous: "The choir obeyed the conductor, who proved to be a magician of sound, as a precision instrument. The conductor managed to convey the emotive depth and high charge of music. The legato stretching from the first to the last composition brought the listener from one beauty to another" (G.Fmschmutz).

Aleksandre Kacharava - Director

Aleksandre Kacharava - one of the founders of the Gori Women's Chamber Choir, directing its activities since its formation (1970). Since 1969 he has been the unchanged Director of Gori music college. In the Soviet period, when the institute of producer did not exist, he performed the functions of a producer and organized the choir's concert tours throughout the Soviet Union and abroad. The opening of an opera studio at the music college in 1979 and staging various performances are linked with the name of A. Kacharava. In 1983 A.Kacharava founded a summer work and rest home for the Women's Chamber Chior of the music college in the village of Bobnevi, in the picturesque valley of the Tana river, which remains one of the favourite haunts of not only the choir, but musicians and residents of the town as well. The international authority of the choir gave A. Kacharava an impetus to organize in 1985 on the basis of the Gori college a large-scale celebration of choir music, which changed into the International Choir Music Festival from 1986.
A. Kacharava is an Honoured Art Worker of Georgia (198?) and holder of the Order of Honour

(1996).