Maestro Tchitchinadze has been successfully working with Sinfonia Varsovia in Holland, Warsaw, Nantes Bilbao, Tokyo, Belgrade, Minsk and La Roque d` Antheron. He worked with Het Orkest van het Oosten in Enschede where he will re-appear in March 2011. He recently worked with the Radio Filharmonic Orchestra Holland where  he was rated highly positive. With Sinfonia Varsovia he will re-appear in all these countries in 2011 in the frame of Les Folles Journees. In La Roque d` Antheron 2010 he performed i.a.the Beethoven 5^th Symfony, afterwards the audience was so enthusiastic that they applauded until the orchestra and Maestro Tchitchinadze played the last part as an encore.

Between 1992 and 2002, George Tchitchinadze worked with the Tbilisi State Radio and TV Corporation Symphony Orchestra. Since 1992, he has been working with the Kutaisi Symphony Orchestra. In 1994, he was made Assistant Conductor of the Georgian State Symphony Orchestra. Between 1994 and 1995, he collaborated with St. Petersburg State University Orchestra. In 1994, he held several concerts with the Batumi Symphony Orchestra. In 1996, he was made Principal Conductor of the Tbilisi Festival Chamber Orchestra, a post he retained until 1997. In 1997, he conducted the joint Austrian-Georgian Music Festival ‘Musical Gift’. In 1998, he conducted several guitar concertos at the International Guitar Festival in Tbilisi, Georgia, followed by a concert with the European Chamber Orchestra at the Auditorio Nacional de Musica in Madrid, Spain, held under the aegis of the Queen of Spain. George Tchitchinadze toured Spain a number of times, conducting the European Chamber Orchestra and Elche Philharmonic Orchestra (Valencia). Since 1998, he has been collaborating with the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, giving a number of concerts and performing works like Shostakovich’s Symphony ? 5, Ravel’s DaphnisetChloe, La Valse, etc

In 2007, he conducted Beethoven’s Symphony ? 5 with the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Orchestra in Vilnius. The concert had a great success that resulted in a fruitful cooperation as well as with the Lithuanian National Chamber Orchestra. 

Since 2004, he has been collaborating with the Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra as well astheSyrian National Symphony Orchestra in Damascus.

In 2003, he conducted the Tbilisi State Conservatory Student Orchestra at the Beethoven Music Festival in Bonn.

In 2002, he conducted Saint Christopher Chamber Orchestra at the International Music Festival “Alternative” held in Vilnius, Lithuania.

After participating in the 2002 International Music Festival in Kislovodsk, Russia,  George Tchitchinadze annually holds concerts there and in 2006, he opened the Kislovodsk International Festival conducting Tchaikovsky’s Symphony ? 5.

In 2000, he conducted the Tokyo State University Symphony Orchestra. In 2001, he was Music Director of the International Music Festival in Saga, Japan, where he conducted the famous St. Petersburg Orchestra of the State Hermitage Museum.Since then, this collaboration has developed and in 2004, forty-five concerts were held throughout Japan in the framework of this cooperation. Altogether, George Tchitchinadze has given around two hundred concerts with this brilliant orchestra in various countries.

George Tchitchinadze started his career as an opera conductor in 1998, when he conducted the Gala Concert at the International Opera Festival initiated and organized by internationally renowned Georgian bass Paata Burchuladze in Tbilisi, Georgia.

In 2000, he was invited to join the Opera Training Department as Assistant Professor (Associate Professor since 2007) and the Opera Studio as conductor at the Tbilisi Sarajishvili State Conservatoire, where he conducted Rachmaninov’s Aleko, Verdi’s Rigoletto, Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Donizetti’s Don Pasquale.

Since 2004, George Tchitchinadze has been conductor and Deputy Artistic Director of the Tbilisi Z. Paliashvili Opera and Ballet State Theatre.For the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre, he has conducted the operas, such as:  Donizetti’s  Don Pasquale (2005), Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera (2006), Rigoletto (2007), Aida (2008),  Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci (2008),  Mozart’s Don Giovanni (2009).In 2007, he conducted two Gala Concerts with the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre Orchestra and soloists in Ma'alot and Ra'anana, Israel.  In 2008, he toured Israel with the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre giving Opera Galas in Jerusalem, Quiriat Haim, Herzelia, Rishon LeZion.

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Repertoire

Works for symphony and chamber orchestras:

Johann Sebastian Bach:
ContrapunctusNo.1 from Die Kunst der Fuge
Violin Concerto in A minor (BWV 1041)
Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor (BWV 1043)
Brandenburg Concerto No.4 (BWV 1049)
Concerto for 2 Harpsichords (pianos) in C minor

Samuel Barber:
Adagio for Strings

Béla Bartók:
Concerto for Orchestra

Ludwig van Beethoven:
Symphony No. 1
Symphony No. 2
Symphony No. 3
Symphony No. 4
Symphony No. 5
Symphony No. 6
Symphony No. 7
Concerto for Piano No. 1
Concerto for Piano No. 2
Concerto for Piano No. 3
Concerto for Piano No. 4
Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Overtures: Fidelio; Leonora No. 3; Coriolan; Egmont.

Hector Berlioz:
Symphonie Fantastique
Le Carnaval Romain

Georges Bizet:
Symphony in C major
L'Arlésienne – Suites No. 1 and No. 2
Bizet-Schedrin - Carmen Suite

Alexander Borodin:
Nocturne from the Quartet No. 2 (version for orchestra)

Johannes Brahms:
Symphony No. 1
Symphony No. 3
Symphony No. 4
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Concerto for Piano No. 1 in D minor

Mario Castelnuovo – Tedesco:
Guitar Concerto No. 1 in D major, op. 46

Ernest Chausson:
Poème for Violin and Orchestra, op. 25
Concerto in D for Piano, Violin and String Quartet, op. 21

Frédéric Chopin:
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor

Arcangelo Corelli:
Concerti Grossi from opus 6

Carl Dittersdorf:
Concerto for Contrabass, Viola and Orchestra

Antonín Dvořák:
Symphony No. 7 in D minor
Symphony No. 9 in E minor “From the New World”
Slavonic Dances

Manuel de Falla:
El Amor Brujo

César Franck:
Symphony in D minor

Edvard Grieg:
Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16
Peer Gynt, op. 23
Holberg Suite, op. 40

Joseph Haydn:
Theresienmesse in B flat major
London Symphonies

Leoš Janáček
Suite for String Orchestra

Giya Kancheli
Symphony No. 5

Revaz Lagidze:
“Sachidao” (Wrestling) for Symphony Orchestra

Édouard Lalo:
Symphonie Espagnole for Violin and Orchestra

Franz Liszt:
Les Préludes(Poème symphonique)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major

Gustav Mahler:
Symphony No. 1
Adagietto from Symphony No.5

Alessandro Marcello:
Oboe Concerto in D minor

Felix Mendelssohn:
Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave)
Symphony No. 3 in A minor (Scottish)
Symphony No. 4 in A major (Italian)
Incidental Music to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (op. 61)

Mozart:
Le Nozze di Figaro (overture)
Die Entführung aus dem Serail (overture)
Symphony No. 5 in B flat major (KV 22)
Symphony No. 31, “Paris”
Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
Symphony No. 36, “Linz”
Symphony No. 38, “Prague”
Symphony No. 39
Symphony No. 40
Symphony No. 41
Piano Concerto No. 17
Piano Concerto No. 20
Piano Concerto No. 21
Piano Concerto No. 23
Piano Concerto No. 24
Concerto for 2 Pianos in E flat major (KV 365)
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E flat major (KV 364)
Concerto for Flute in G major (KV 314) and in D major (KV 313)
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Divertimento KV 136
Missa Brevis in G major KV 140

Niccolo Paganini:
Concerto for Violin No. 1 in D major

Amilcare Ponchielli:
Danza delle Ore from La Gioconda

Sergei Prokofiev:
Symphony No. 1 (classical)
Suites No 1, No. 2 and No. 3 from Romeo and Juliet

Giacomo Puccini:
Crisantemi for string orchestra

Sergei Rachmaninoff:
Symphony No. 2
Piano Concerto No. 2
Piano Concerto No. 3
Piano Concerto No. 4
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Maurice Ravel:
Pavane pour une infante defunte
La Valse
Daphnis et Chloé, suite No. 2
Tzigane - Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov:
Capriccio Espagnol, op. 34
Scheherezade, op. 35

Joaquin Rodrigo:
Concierto de Aranjues, for guitar and orchestra

Gioachino Rossini:
La scala di seta (overture)
La Cenerentola (overture)
La Gazza Ladra (overture)
Il barbiere di Siviglia (overture)

Camille Saint-Saëns:
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso for Violin and Orchestra
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor

ArnoldSchoenberg:
Verklärte Nacht

Franz Peter Schubert:
Symphony No. 4 in C minor (tragic)
Symphony No. 5 in B flat major
Symphony No. 8 in B minor (unfinished)
Symphony No. 9 in C major (great C major)
Mass No. 2 in G major

Robert Schumann:
Piano Concerto in A minor (op. 54)
Cello Concerto in A minor (op. 129)

Dmitri Shostakovich:
Symphony No. 5
Symphony No. 9
Symphony No. 10
Chamber Symphony in C minor (Arr. Rudolf Barshai)

Jean Sibelius:
Violin Concerto
Valse Triste

Johann Strauss II:
Die Fledermaus (overture)
Waltzes and Polkas

Richard Strauss:
Don Juan, op. 20
Tod und Verklärung, op. 24

Igor Stravinsky:
Pulcinella, Suite
Pulcinella, complete ballet
Concerto in D for String Orchestra

Piotr Tchaikovsky:
Symphony No. 4
Symphony No. 5
Symphony No. 6
Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture
Francesca da Rimini, Symphonic Fantasy (op. 32)
Capriccio Italien, op. 45
Serenade in C for String Orchestra
Andante Cantabile from Quartet No. 1
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, op. 23
Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35
The Nutcracker (overture)
Swan Lake (extracts)

Giuseppe Verdi:
La Forza del Destino ( overture)

Antonio Vivaldi:
Four Seasons
Concertos from L’estro Armonico, etc.

Richard Wagner:
Siegfried Idill
Introduction and Death of Isolde from Tristan und Isolde
Tannhäuser (overture)

Carl Maria von Weber:
Oberone (overture)

Operas:

Gaetano Donizetti:
Don Pasquale

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Die Zauberflöte
Don Giovanni

Pietro Mascagni:
Cavalleria Rusticana

Ruggero Leoncavallo:
Pagliacci

Sergei Rachmaninov:
Aleko

Piotr Tchaikovsky:
Eugene Onegin

Zakaria Paliashvili:
Daisi
Abesalom and Eteri

Alexander (Bidzina) Kvernadze:
And It Was in the Eighth Year

Giacomo Puccini:
Manon Lescaut

Giuseppe Verdi:
Rigoletto
La Traviata
It Trovatore
Un Ballo in Maschera
Aida