The Rustavi Choir

Formed beneath the auspices from the folksong and dance group the Rustavi Firm, the all-male Rustavi Choir (pronounced: roostahvi) continues to be sharing their appreciate of Soviet Georgia’s polyphonic vocal music for a lot more than three decades. The choir’s movie director, Anzor Erkomaishvili, a seventh era performer, produced the group soon after graduating from the Tbilisi Conservatory. A lot of the choir’s repertoire is conducted a capella, although, several tunes integrate indigenous stringed equipment, like the chongun as well as the phanduri. In 1993, the Rustavi Choir received an Albert Schweitzer Award from the Government Republic of Germany because of its “high creative standards and its own efforts to market friendship.”