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Ensemble was created in 1968 by Anzor Erkomaishvili, a singer and folklorist from a distinguished Georgian musical lineage that goes back seven generations. Since its formation Rustavi has successfully toured about 70 countries of the world, always receiving the most glowing comments – even from the toughest of critics.
Songs and dances for work and war, spectacular costumes, the unique Georgian style of polyphonic singing and rich voices characterize the Rustavi Choir. Their intense sacred hymns with their overlapping, continuously moving harmonies are spellbinding. Rustavi is also performing a high-quality comprising national and diverse traditional dances. Excellent costumes, brilliant performance, and elaborate choreography.
Erkomaishvili's vision was to break through ethnic boundaries of regional styles while performing ethnographically authentic music from all of Georgia. The Rustavi's performance style synthesizes the powerful, rough-hewn sound characteristic of the traditional regional folk choirs with a newer, cleaner, more finely-honed aesthetic whose orientation is towards concert presentation - nowadays on an increasingly international scale.
While striving to preserve, and in some cases recreate, authentic voicing and vocal timbres, the Rustavi singers have simplified the complex scales used by the earlier choirs in order to create firmer, more brilliant harmonies. The use of a smaller number of singers for certain songs has also helped to clarify their musical structure.
This is an ensemble, where Hamlet Gonashvili, the brilliance of the world folk music and the voice of Georgia made his flamboyant career.

UPCOMING CONCERTS
Tallinn, Republic of Estonia
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On January 29th Ensemble ‘Rustavi’ is leaving for Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It will participate in an annual festival...
LATEST PRESS
XV Christian Culture Festival. Lodz, Poland, 2011 November 07
Musical folklore occupies an important place in the life of the Georgians. In ancient times, song and dance were prevalent...
Ensemble ‘Rustavi’ Administration Press Release, 2011 September 09
It’s a great pleasure for us to inform you that since September 2011 there has been opened the Ensemble ‘Rustavi’...
Ensemble ‘Rustavi’ Administration Press Release, 2011 July 26
Ensemble ‘Rustavi’ is preparing for production an anthology of 300 Georgian folk songs. In the unique edition there will be...