Anchiskhati Choir

The Anchiskhati Choir is the choir of the Anchiskhati Church in Tbilisi, Georgia. These nine bearded men play a special role in their country's preservation of its musical heritage. For almost three generations, during the Communist regime, church music was prohibited. In 1989 as the Soviet Union was disintegrating, the singers of Anchiskhati were the first to revive medieval church music in services. They sing chants that were previously unknown or available only in indecipherable manuscripts.