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Night Serenades International Festival in Tbilisi and Batumi
Founded in 1982 by violinist and conductor Liana Isakadze, Night Serenades is Georgia's longest continuously associated classical music festival, now staged as the Batumi-Tbilisi International Festival across the Black Sea coast and the capital each late summer into autumn. Its resident Virtuosos orchestra performs canonical repertoire alongside premieres of new Georgian compositions.
Night Serenades traces back to 1982, founded in Abkhazia by Liana Isakadze, a Georgian violinist and conductor whose international career gave the festival access to touring classical musicians from its earliest years, making it the longest continuously associated classical music festival in the country's modern history.