Giya Kancheli

Soviet and Georgian composer

Gia Kancheli (Georgian: გია ყანჩელი; 10 August 1935 – 2 October 2019) was a Georgian composer. He was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, and resided in Belgium in later life.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Kancheli lived first in Berlin, and from 1995 in Antwerp, where he became composer-in-residence for the Royal Flemish Philharmonic. He died in Tbilisi at age 84.

Read more about this composer on Wikipedia.

Works

Box sets & recent recordings

Kancheli: 33 Miniatures — Giya Kancheli, George Vatchnadze, Suren Bagratuni (2019) box set · 40 tracks Spotify
33 Miniatures: No. 10, Theme from Twelfth Night — Giya Kancheli, Olga Jegunova-Oppetit (2026) Spotify
33 Miniatures: No. 2, Valse from The Eccentrics — Giya Kancheli, Olga Jegunova-Oppetit (2026) Spotify
Kancheli: A Little Daneliade, Valse Boston, 18 Miniatures & Largo & Allegro — Giya Kancheli, Elisaveta Blumina, Hartmut Schill, Robert Schumann Philharmonie (2023) Spotify
Kancheli: Music for Film and Theatre for Clarinet and Piano — Giya Kancheli, Polina Osetinskaya, Julian Milkis (2022) Spotify

Box sets & recent releases via Spotify — surfaced automatically, not editorial picks.