Concert dedicated to the 85th birthday of composer Paul Dambis will be performed at the Riga Latvian Society / Day

The first part of the concert will feature music by L. Amoliņš, S. Mence, I. Breģe, and the second part will feature works by Paul Dambis. Participation in the concert will be accepted Symphony Riga string quartet, singer Ieva Parša and pianist Aldis Liepiņš.

Paul Dambis is known to a wide audience as an outstanding composer of choral music – with his cycle Sea songs is associated with the chamber choir conducted by Imants Kokars Bird sun procession of fame in world concert halls and competitions. In addition to choral music, there have always been finely nuanced chamber music works on the composer’s desk. Ieva Parša’s song will feature Paul Dambis’ cycle Three variations of Imants Ziedonis and Paul Dambis, written in 1973, was once in the repertoire of Maija Kriegen and Pēteris Plakižis – these are colorful sound scenes Well blooms, apple trees, I grow big, People talk.

There will also be an opportunity to hear some of the Latvian folk song arrangements for voice and piano. In recent years, several masterpieces of large-scale chamber music have been written by the master’s hands – violin sonata, piano works, and from them it will be possible to hear the latest, already the Eighth String Quartet. This opus was composed in 2018 and was performed three years ago in the LMT chamber hall of J. Vītols Latvian Academy of Music by prof. Agnes Sprūdža in the performance of master students. Now waiting Sinfonietta Riga string quartet interpretation. The eighth Paul Dam String Quartet has a name The course of folk songs.

The family of Latvian composers has several branches, which – like mighty oak branches – have been grown by Jāzeps Vītols. Along with Jānis Ivanovs and Ādolfs Skults, the composition was taught at the Latvian State Conservatory for many years by Vītols student Valentīns Utkins, whose students were Aldonis Kalniņš, Pēteris Vasks, Pēteris Plakidis, Arturs Maskats, Pauls Dambis and many others. Following this branch, we come to Paul Dambis’ students, who studied composition at the Latvian Conservatory from 1986 to 1993, when Pauls Dambis was a professor in the composition department – Leons Amoliņš, Selga Mence, Ilona Breģe, Marina Gribinčika and Valdis Zilveris. In later years, he also taught composition at the Riga Dome Choir School and laid the foundations for composition for brand new musicians, including Evija Skuķe and Jēkabs Jančevskis.

The first part of the concert will feature a new cycle of songs by Leonas Amoliņš with lyrics by Bronislava Martuževa for voice and piano, composed at the end of 2020, as well as Selga Mence’s 2012 String Quartet and the premiere of Ilona Brege’s composition I want to talk so quietly… with Māra Zālīte ‘s poetry for voice and string quartet.

Tickets available Ticket paradises at the box office and on the website www.bilesuparadize.lv

Ticket price 10 euros, pensioners, students and pupils 5 euros.

Entrance to the event on presentation of an interoperable Covid-19 vaccination or disease certificate together with an identity document (also for children under 12 years of age).

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