Golden Fleece
Golden Fleece is an Australian vocal ensemble which performs, collects, teaches and researches traditional Georgian music. The group takes its name from the well known mythical object the golden fleece.
The trio Golden Fleece consists of Joseph Jordania, PhD (low voices and percussion) and Nino Tsitsishvili, MA (high voices and'chonguri'). Both are ethnomusicologists who arrived in Australia in 1995 from Georgia. The third member of the ensemble is German-born Christoph Maubach M. Ed. (middle voices and percussion). Christoph is a music educator, who has specialised in Orff music and movement education. He is a lecturer in music education at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne.
Golden Fleece was formed in January 1996 in Melbourne. Since then the trio has performed concerts and given workshops at many Australian music events including the Woodford Festival, the National Folk Festival and the Sydney A Capella Festival. Golden Fleece has performed abroad in Chicago and Los Angeles and some of their performances have been broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Golden Fleece is featured on the following titles
Songs from Georgia
Unique for its sound, melodies, harmonies, polyphony and modes, Georgian music was declared by Igor Stravinsky a stimulus for modern Western music. Australian ensemble Golden Fleece collects, teaches and researches this tradition, painting a vivid portrait of a rich cultural heritage.
Members of Golden Fleece
Joseph Jordania
Joseph Jordania is an Australian–Georgian ethnomusicologist and singer whose research and performance centre on traditional Georgian vocal polyphony. Based in Melbourne, he is known for low voices and percussion with the vocal ensemble Golden Fleece.
Christoph Maubach
Christoph Maubach migrated from Germany to Australia in 1979 after completing the ‘A’ Course at the Orff-Institute in Salzburg. From 1980 onwards he conducted many Orff music education workshops throughout Australia and abroad.