Anzor Erkomaishvili
Illustration — Erkomaishvili on a 2025 stamp of Georgia Anzor Erkomaishvili (ანზორ ერქომაიშვილი; 10 August 1940 – 31 March 2021) was a Georgian singer, composer, and folk music researcher. He is known for his long-standing work as musical director of the folk choir Rustavi Ensemble since 1968 and efforts for preserving the folk singing heritage of Georgia.
Anzor Erkomaishvili
B.Gagnidze (Georgia Post) · https: gpost.ge/shop/product?id=3397 · Public domain
- Born
- 1940 · Batumi.
- Died
- 2021 · Tbilisi.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union
- Occupation
- singer · choir director · musicologist · entertainer · folklorist · musician · conductor
- Honours
- Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR · Order of the Badge of Honour · Presidential Order of Excellence · People's artist of the Georgian SSR · Medal For Labour Valour · Order of Honour
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Illustration — Erkomaishvili on a 2025 stamp of Georgia Anzor Erkomaishvili (ანზორ ერქომაიშვილი; 10 August 1940 – 31 March 2021) was a Georgian singer, composer, and folk music researcher. He is known for his long-standing work as musical director of the folk choir Rustavi Ensemble since 1968 and efforts for preserving the folk singing heritage of Georgia.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Anzor Erkomaishvili. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q12861745 · wikipedia · Anzor Erkomaishvili
In this article
Biography
Biography
Anzor Erkomaishvili was born in Batumi in then-Soviet Georgia into a family with a longstanding musical tradition. His grandfather was the Georgian folk singer Artem Erkomaishvili. He graduated from the Tbilisi State Conservatoire in 1969. Still being a student, he began collecting and transcribing the polyphonic Georgian folk repertoire, particularly from the province of Guria. In 1968, he founded the Rustavi Choir which toured throughout Georgia and abroad for decades. Erkomaishvili's work on researching, compiling and safeguarding the folk singing legacy earned him many awards, including the title of Meritorious Artist of Georgia (1969), Ivane Javakhishvili and Shota Rustaveli national prizes, Order of Honor and Presidential Order of Excellence (2020), Honorary Citizenship of Tbilisi (2014) and others. In 2008 he was elected to the Parliament of Georgia for the ruling United National Movement party from the single-mandate district of Ozurgeti, but he resigned his parliamentary position in March 2009. He published memoirs and books on Georgian folk music. Erkomaishvili died due to COVID-19-related complications in a hospital in Tbilisi on 31 March 2021. He was buried at the Mtatsminda Pantheon in Tbilisi.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Batumi.
Birth place
Tbilisi.
Death place
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Jordania, Joseph. Erkomaishvili family. Oxford Music Online. 2001. 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.51507.
- 2.Scherbaum, Prof Dr Frank. The Heritage Of Artem Erkomaishvili. www.uni-potsdam.de.
- 3.Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity: Proclamations 2001, 2003 and 2005. unesdoc.unesco.org. 2006.
- 4.Hover, Shary. About Culture – Ensemble Rustavi. Georgia About. 3 April 2014.
- 5.Musicologist, Rustavi ensemble founder Anzor Erkomaishvili dies of Covid at 81. Agenda.ge. 31 March 2021.
- 6.Parliament of Georgia. Anzor Erkomaishvili.
- 7.Georgian folklorist Anzor Erkomaishvili dies of COVID-19. 1TV.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Music memorabilia
42,832 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Anyway RecordsOrganisation
- Anzhela AtarbekyanPerson
- Anzic RecordsOrganisation
- Anzor AlemPerson
- Ao JūmonjiPerson
- Aoife O'DonovanPerson
- Aoxuan LeePerson
- Aozora RecordsOrganisation
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Anzor Erkomaishvili?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.