On May 14 at 6 pm, the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra will conclude its 141st concert season with an ambitious concert, which is the last conductor of the orchestra for the outstanding Lithuanian conductor Gintaras Rinkevičs. The special guest of the concert will be one of the leading Latvian pianists Daumants Liepiņš.
The Liepāja Symphony Orchestra will present the greats of classical music – Anton Brukner and Sergejs Prokofjev, who are still admired and considered technically extremely complex, at the closing concert of the season in the concert hall “Lielais dzintars” with the main conductor Gintars Rinkevičs.
Bruckner’s Third Symphony is dedicated to the German composer Richard Wagner and is therefore known as the Wagner Symphony. With this work begins a series of masterpieces in which Bruckner’s creativity reveals the composer’s monumental abilities.
Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto premiered in 1913 with the composer himself at the piano, and is still considered one of the most technically challenging piano concerts that only a rare pianist can play accurately. At the closing concert of the season, the outstanding Latvian pianist Daumants Liepiņš accepted this challenge.
Maestro Gintars Rinkevičs has been the main conductor of the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra for five concert seasons.
His interpretation of Karl Orph’s Carmina Burana, as well as his reading of Mahler’s First and Second Symphonies, is well remembered. Rinkevich has also conducted brilliant concerts with Mish Maisky, Gidon Kremer, Sergei Nakaryakov, Vestard Shimka, Jeronim Mile and conducted the triumphant concerts of the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra in India and Sri Lanka.
Under his direction, the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra has recorded two Latvian music albums in recent years. “Wind Glow” with seven composers – female compositions won the Latvian Music Record of the Year Award “Golden Microphone” last year. An album with music by Peter Barison has just been released.
Gintars Rinkevičs is one of the most outstanding internationally acclaimed Lithuanian conductors, a professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, the founder and artistic director of the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra. From 1996 to 2003 he was the chief conductor of the Latvian National Opera, winner of the 1996 Grand Music Prize. He has been the principal conductor of the Malmö Opera and Musical Theater, conducting prominent German, Danish and Russian orchestras. Rinkevich has conducted opera performances in Salzburg, the Royal Albert Hall in London, and the Elysée Country Theater in Paris, Taiwan and Hong Kong. He often visited the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. For many years he has conducted the Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra.
Guntis Kuzma will take over the position of chief conductor of the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra from September.
Tickets for the concert are available at all Biļešu Paradīze sales points, also on the Internet: https://www.bilesuparadize.lv/lv/event/114943
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