Tbilisi Baroque Festival Ongoing

The Tbilisi Baroque Festival is still ongoing, a grandiose concert to be held in the evening of November 16, 19:30, in the small stage at Rustaveli theater, where together with Georgian Sinfonietta, Georgian Choir –Baroque, Tbilisi State Conservatory MA Chamber Choir, soloist, soprano Ana Tsartsidze will be performing. Cornelia Von Kerssenbrock is to conduct the concert with masterpieces from Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, William Herschell, George Frideric Handle, Jan Dismas Zelenka, and K.F. Bach.

Cornelia von Kerssenbrock studied conducting at the Salzburg “Mozarteum”, Austria, at the Freiburg Music Academy/Germany and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy.

She has won several awards, such as an “Honorary Award 1995/96” from the Vienna Ministry of Culture/Austria, and the “Zonta Music Award 2004”/Germany. Since 2004, she is the Chief Conductor and Musical Director of the “Opernfestival Gut Immling” festival, where she performed Vivaldi, Händel, Mozart, Puccini and Wagner operas.

Ana Tsartsidze graduated from Tbilisi State Conservatory MA in 2013. She has performed concerts in Mantua, Italy, and has regularly participated in various festivals and competitions, both in Georgia and internationally. In 2013, Ana became a finalist of Hans Gabor Belvedere International Competition, and participated in the Neue Stimmen Opera Singers competition in Germany. In 2016, Ana Tsartsidze received an Opernwerkstaff 2016 scholarship in Switzerland, and the same year was invited to Badisches Staatstheater. Since 2016, she has collaborated with the Kawai Company and has performed concerts in Germany and Austria.

Travel back in time to Europe as the Tbilisi Baroque Festival continues until December 7.