Assistant Professor

E-Mail: gocha.bidzinashvili@galoba.edu.ge

In 2013, he graduated from the Bachelor program of the Giorgi Mtatsmindeli University of Chant. In 2021, he graduated from the Master program of the Composition and Musicology faculty of Tbilisi State Conservatoire named after Vano Sarajishvili (specialty – “Church music”). Currently he is studying on the PhD program “Musicological researches”, specialty “Music theory” in Tbilisi State Conservatoire.

In 2011-2014, he was a member of the scientific group of the research laboratory of the Chanting Center of the Patriarchate of Georgia. Since 2013, he has been leading the ensemble of Telavi singers “Patara Kakhi”. Since 2017, he has been the regent of Telavi Lotbar School of the State Folklore Center of Georgia. From the same year, he has been leading the folk ensemble “Shilda” named after Dedas Levana. In 2o19, he founded the Georgian traditional musical school in Telavi named after the St. Karbelashvilebi brothers.

  • The article published in the collection of students’ scientific works of Giorgi Mtatsmindeli Higher School of Chanting.
  • The article was published as a foreword in Volume VII of the Georgian Church Hymn, 2015.
  • He has published four audio CDs, two of church hymns, two of folk songs, in ensembles – Patara Kakhi and Shilda, 2015-2020.
  • “The first notated collection of Georgian church hymns”, “Archival studies, source studies: tendencies and challenges”, Tbilisi National Archives, 2021.
  • “The Mode of Sofron Archimandrite”, Batumi Students’ International Conference, Batumi, 2020.
  • “Hymn collections notated by Davit Chijavadze”, scientific conference of students dedicated to the memory of Professor Manana Andriadze, Giorgi Mtatsmindeli Higher School of Church Singing, 2020.
  • “Collections of Hymns notated by Davit Chijavadze”, conference of the Students’ Scientific Society, Tbilisi State Conservatoire, 2020.
  • “The first notated manuscript collection of the rules of the Georgian church chant service”, scientific conference of students dedicated to the memory of Professor Manana Andriadze, Giorgi Mtatsmindeli Higher School of Church Singing, 2019.
  • “The hymnal traditions of the multi-mountain monasteries of Gareji”, “Tradition, canonicality, performance”, Tbilisi State Conservatoire, 2013.