Tamara Gverdtsiteli, singer, composer, People’s Artist of Russia and Georgia, and one the most beautiful voices of the present, will become part of Thirteenth Spasskaya Tower International Military Music Festival, once again taking away the hearts and minds of the Festival audiences. This year she will be performing at the finale of each evening show (but for September 3).
“As usual the grand finale of our evening show will see the performance staged by the participants’ combined band of about a thousand people. Tamara Gverdtsiteli will be joining the band to perform a song, that’s secret for now but perfectly fits the ‘75 Years since the War Ended’ production”, told Major General Timofey Mayakin, Head of the Band Military Service of the Russian Armed Forces — Chief Military Conductor and Festival Music Director.
Since 2015 Tamara Gverdtsiteli has been part of the Spasskaya Tower International Military Music Festival. The 2016 Festival grand finale featured her duet with Mireille Mathieu, a famous French singer. They performed Une vie d’amour, a song written by Charles Aznavour to the music of Georges Garvarentz.
The following anniversary year she performed to the accompaniment of the Festival combined band. This performance was marked by the premier of her Light up the Candles song (music and lyrics by Sergey Kuznetsov) that she dedicated to the memory of Lieutenant General Valery Khalilov, the first Music Director of the Festival.
The 2019 run of the Festival with its ‘Solo with a Band’ production certainly couldn’t lack the unique timbre of Tamara Gverdtsiteli’s beautiful voice. Last year she performed several compositions including Okudzhava’s Molitva (Prayer) and Vivat, Korol (Long Live, the King) by Yuri Rybchinskiy (lyrics) and Gennadiy Tatarchenko (music). She was accompanied by the Central Military Band of the Russian MoD led by Colonel Sergey Durygin, Bandmaster and People’s Artist of Russia.
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At the age of ten, Tamara Gverdtsiteli became the leading singer of the famous Mziuri Children Ensemble. After the Mziuri’s successful performance within the cultural program of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, she was invited to become the leading singer of the Georgian State Radio and Television Wind Band.
In 1981 Tamara Gverdtsiteli became
In 1991 Tamara Gverdtsiteli met Michel Legrand, a famous French composer. This meeting resulted in her first contract and first concert in Paris Olympia Concert Hall. Several years later, in 1995, she started her tour around the USA, the highest point of which was her performance at the world’s famous Carnegie Hall.