Jemal Gokieli ( ka, ჯემალ გოკიელი; July 4, 1920 – April 14, 1991) was a

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conductor.

Biography

Jemal (Djemal) Gokieli was born on 4 July 1920 in Kutaisi, Western Georgia into the family of a prominent Georgian composer . In his childhood he used to play on organ in the Catholic church of Kutaisi. In the 1940s he studied conducting at Tbilisi and Moscow Conservatories where his tutors were Odysseas Dimitriadi, Grigori Stoliarov and

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. From 1944 until 1948 he worked as a conductor at Tbilisi State Opera and Ballet Theatre. From 1948 until his death on 14 April 1991 he was a conductor of the Georgian State Symphony Orchestra. During his career he held more than 1100 concerts as in his native Tbilisi and other Georgian towns but also in many different places of the Soviet Union, like Moscow, Saint Petersburg and other Russian cities, as well as in all former Soviet Republics. He had concert tours in Poland, Yugoslavia and Romania. His concert activities outside the USSR were limited due to Soviet regime regulations. Gokieli had conducted a number of different symphony orchestras and had performed with a such outstanding musicians as

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, Maria Yudina,

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, Marina Iashvili,

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and others.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gokieli, Jemal Conductors (music) from Georgia (country) 1920 births 1991 deaths Burials at Didube Pantheon People from Kutaisi Soviet conductors (music)