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Inside the Festival Where Music Meets Diplomacy
PCYO and the Georgia festival where classical music meets diplomacy.
Erik Mirzoyan, a 21-year-old Armenian clarinetist, is a member of the Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra, or PCYO, an 80-piece ensemble created as a central element of a classical music festival held every September in Tsinandali, Georgia. Cultural diplomacy is precisely the reason the PCYO was created in 2019, the inaugural year of the festival, held on a historic estate in the bucolic village of Tsinandali, about 65 miles from Tbilisi, the Georgian capital. This year, those guests included violinists Joshua Bell and Kristóf Baráti; pianists Mikhail Pletnev, Alexandre Kantorow, Boris Giltburg, Bruce Liu and Jeremy Denk; cellists Steven Isserlis and Edgar Moreau; oboist François Leleux; and other big names.
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