Career
Givi Gachechiladze first gained public attention with an instrumental composition called "VIC" which was included in The Victor Feldman All Stars Play Soviet Jazz Themes, the world"s first album of Soviet jazz released in the United States and abroad in 1963. Later, Givi Gachechiladze led the Ukrainian Jazz Orchestra as well as the People’s/Symphony Orchestra of Ukrainian National Television (Kiev-Channel One). After returning to Georgia, he was the leader of the Tbilisi Philharmonic,the composer, conductor and musical director of Rero, the Tbilisi Television Orchestra, Theatron, and Mardzhanishvili Theater.
In 1997, he founded the Tbilisi Municipal Orchestra, which brought the band leader even more recognition.
Today the orchestra, also known as the Tbilisi Big Band or the Tbilisi Concert Orchestra, is one of the most highly sought orchestras in the post-Soviet region. Gachechiladze is the author of hundreds of jazz and classical compositions, as well as soundtracks for films and plays.
