Founded in Tblisi in Georgia in 1964, in 1990 the Georgian Chamber Orchestra, with the support of the city of Ingolstadt and of Audi AG, moved to Ingolstadt. The artistic achievement of the orchestra owes much to its long-term leader, the virtuoso violinist Liana Issakadze, and to conductors such as Yehudi Menuhin and Kurt Masur. Since 2000 Markus Poschner has held the position of principal conductor, and under his direction the orchestra has continued its development through intensive experience of music of the Viennese classical and modern periods up to contemporary jazz, arousing the enthusiasm of audiences through its unusual programming. The orchestra has Sviatoslav Richter and Daniel Shafran, and in the recent past with Gidon Kremer, Giora Feidman, Lynn Harrell, Mstislav Rostropovich, Sergey Nakariakov, Rudolf Buchbinder, Christian Zacharias, Barbara Hendricks, Natalia Gutman, Sharon Kam and Gilles Apap. The orchestra has appeared at leading European music festivals, including the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Kissinger Summer, the Ruhr European Classic Festival and the Prague Spring. It has for years been an important element of summer concerts in the region between the Danube and Altmühl, as well as presenting a series of events for Audi AG and Bavarian Radio.

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