On June 30, at 7 pm, the online concert program was prepared by musicians – singer Ilze Grēvele-Skaraine, saxophonist Artis Sīmanis and organist Kristīne Adamaite and Ilona Birģele – in honor of the 85th anniversary of composer, teacher, organist and conductor Paul Dambis.
The concert, which will be broadcast live by “Klasika”, will sound already favorite works, such as Touch to the imagination (1993) for organ, and more recently music.
The premiere of the evening is expected – Passacaglia in three concerts (2021) for voice, saxophone and organ.
The organist tells more about this concert “Klasika” Kristīne Adamaite.
The celebration of Paul Dam’s anniversary at the organ is not accidental, the concert organizers note. He himself has mastered the organ playing at Riga St. Esther Didrihsone, an organist of St. Paul’s Church, and from 1951 to 1952 worked as an organist and choir conductor at St. Anna Church Parish. But from 1993 to 1994, he was the music director of the city of Egebeck in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany – a time when several organ works were created.
He studied composition from 1957 to 1962 at the Latvian State Conservatory under Valentin Utkin. From 1960 to 1962, Dambis was the head of the music department of the Drama Theater, from 1964 to 1968 the sound director and composer of the TV film association “Telefilma Rīga”. For many years he worked as a teacher in the composition department of the Latvian State Conservatory, as well as in the Latvian Academy of Culture.
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