Kancheli, Giya Aleksandrovich
(*1935)
Kancheli [Kanchélee], Giya (Georgy) Aleksandrovich (8–10–1935, Tbilisi). Georgian comp. Grad. 1963 from the Tbilisi Cons., where he studied comp. with Tuskiya and later taught (1972-). His comp. style blends a variety of elements: Georgian folk music; jazz; the symphonic traditions of Prokof'yev, Shostakovich , and Stravinsky; and contemporary techniques, incl. aleatory and spatial effects. The term dynamic stasis has been used to describe Kancheli's method of contrasting the “slow motion of…