Giya Alexandrovich Kancheli
Born: 10th August 1935, Tbilisi, Georgia
Died: 2nd October 2019, Tbilisi, Georgia
Nationality: Georgian
Gia Kancheli 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.
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