About
The Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt is a chamber orchestra that was founded in Tbilisi (Georgia) and moved to Ingolstadt (Bavaria) in 1990.
Since moving to Germany in 1990, the Georgian Chamber Orchestra has been based in Ingolstadt. In the meantime, with the support of the city of Ingolstadt, AUDI AG and Sparkasse Ingolstadt, the former exile orchestra has become an integral part of regional and national cultural life. The ensemble's concert series, which has been held in Ingolstadt since 2001, has consistently received high numbers of subscribers.
The ensemble was founded in 1964 in Tbilisi / Georgia as the Georgian State Chamber Orchestra and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2014. After the orchestra was based in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, for the first 26 years, it moved to Ingolstadt, where it has now found its second home for 24 years. But the new life in Bavaria is nothing more than a continuation of the old one under different conditions. Because continuity is the principle of this very Eastern European orchestra, which has always been able to preserve its character, even in exile. Almost only musicians from Georgia, the former Soviet Union, at least from Eastern Europe still play in the Ingolstadt ensemble.
The Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt sees itself as an ensemble that not only feels responsible for a very broad repertoire, but also develops activities outside the subscription series as a cultural ambassador for the city of Ingolstadt. Around sixty concerts a year also regularly take the orchestra to music festivals such as the Kreuth International Music Festival, the Oettinger Residence Concerts or the Festive Summer in the Wies, as well as to concerts abroad, including Spain, France, Georgia and Switzerland. The ensemble has been an integral part of the summer concerts, a series of AUDI AG events.
Since 2010 the ensemble has been funded by the Free State of Bavaria as a non-state cultural orchestra.