From March 9 to 23, the 32nd Liepaja International Festival of Stars will take place in the “Lielais dzintars” concert hall, with the performance of excellent domestic artists and also international stars, informed Iveta Vēvere, head of public relations of the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra.
The tradition-rich festival, which once began as the International Festival of Pianist Stars, has been attracting both listeners and musicians to Liepaja for more than 30 years in the spring.
This year, among the participants of the festival, the audience will see the Canadian pianist Louis Lortee, the German violinist Katrina ten Hagen and the French oboist Celine Mounet, the Finnish conductor Juha Kangas, the State Academic Choir “Latvija” and internationally recognized opera singers, pianist Aurelija Šimkus, jazz musician John Ruoko and other outstanding performers artists.
The program of this year’s Liepāja International Festival of Stars includes five concerts – the audience will have the opportunity to hear symphonic music created by Frederic Chopin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Pēter Vaskas. A chamber jazz and piano solo evening is expected in the chamber hall of the “Lielais dzintars” concert hall, while at the end of the festival, Italian operatic genius Giuseppe Verdi’s monumental spiritual vocal-instrumental piece “Requiem” will be played.
At the opening of the festival on March 9 at 6 p.m., Canadian pianist Louis Lortee will take the stage with the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra under the leadership of conductor Gunta Kuzmas to play Frédéric Chopin’s First Piano Concerto together. For more than three decades, Louis Lortie has built his career as one of the most versatile pianists in the world.
For the second year in a row, the winners of the Valdas Vikmanis Latvian Young Player Artists Competition – violinists Elza Siliņa and Lueta Žagare, cellist Reinis Rudzītis, percussionist Sonja Misiņa and trombonist Dāvis Matīss Leišavnieks – will take the stage together with the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra at the opening concert of the Liepāja International Festival of Stars.
On March 15 at 7 p.m., “Trio Elpo” together with saxophonist and clarinetist John Ruoko will delight the audience of the star festival with a jazz program, while on March 21 at 7 p.m., pianist Aurelia Šimkus will give a solo concert, with whom lovers of piano music will be able to experience an exquisite journey through time and get acquainted with wonderful For compositions by Philip Glass, Sergei Prokofiev and Frédéric Chopin.
On March 16, at 7 p.m., the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra will perform under the direction of Finnish conductor Juha Kangas. The program will meet the timeless elegance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the loving harmonies of Peter Vaska.
“Musica serena” by Pēteris Vaskas will be played, which he dedicated directly to his long-time friend – conductor Juh Kangas, and “Vox amoris”, a fantasy for violin and string instruments, which is a story about the most powerful force in the world – love. German violinist Katrína ten Hagen will be the soloist in this piece.
The listeners of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s unfathomably vast oeuvre will be able to enjoy Hafner’s symphony filled with emotions and the Oboe concert, where the solo will be performed by the excellent Frenchwoman Céline Moinet.
On the other hand, at the grand finale of the festival, on March 23, at 6 p.m., the great Italian opera genius Giuseppe Verdi’s “Requiem” will be played – a monumental piece of spiritual vocal-instrumental music, in which the composer has put all his talent as a genius melodist and a great master of dramaturgy of musical forms.
The Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Atvars Lakstīgalas, will perform in front of the audience with its long-time partner the State Academic Choir “Latvija” and outstanding soloists – Polish soprano Joanna Zavartko, Slovenian mezzo-soprano Monika Bohinec, Ukrainian tenor Oleksandrs Chuvpilas and Latvian National Opera bass Rihards Mačanovskis.
Tickets for the festival concerts are available In the “Ticket Paradise” network.
The festival is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, the State Culture Capital Fund, the city of Liepāja, “SEB banka” and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Riga.
2024-02-14 12:44:48
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