The central event in the festival’s extensive six-concert program until June 18 will be the 80th anniversary concert of the outstanding Latvian conductor and teacher Jānis Erenštreits, who will gather a number of his former students, graduates of the . The concerts of the Riga festival will take place in different places, but all will start at 8 pm
At the opening concert of the Riga Festival on the evening of June 2 in the Grand Guild alongside the works of Peter Vasks (Names of our mothers; My Lord and my God; Angele Dei; The Fruit of Silence; Cuckoo’s voice) will be played by Arthur Muscat Spring theme for piano and Agnus Deias well as Andrei Selicka An ecstatic song for the mother of God and Ave Maria.
Pianist Vestards Šimkus will perform all 24 piano preludes by the French Impressionist composer and sound painter Claude Debussy in a concert at the House of Blackheads on the evening of June 4. On June 11, the chamber ensemble of the outstanding Latvian musicians Reinis Zariņš, violinist Eva Bindere and cellist Kristīne Blaumane at the House of Blackheads Trio Palladio will interpret the avant-garde work of Ludwig van Beethoven in the dominant position of the Piano Trio, Santa Ratniece Entasis and the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov Drama.
In a unique musical project On the Hanseatic platform On June 16, one of the founders of hip-hop in Latvia, rapper OZOLS, Latvian Radio Big Band and singer Kristīne Prauliņa will meet. Songs from various rap albums released since 2000 will be played.
The 80th anniversary concert of the conductor and pedagogue (and now the writer – an enthusiastic researcher of Latvian music history) Jānis Erenštreits on June 17 in Dzintari Concert Hall will be a celebration of glorious, creative musical diversity, with the participation of his students and closest stage colleagues: maestro Raimonds Pauls, Riga Dome choir school choirs, conductor Mārtiņš Klišāns, singers Daumants Kalniņš, Gunārs Kalniņš, Jānis Šipkēvics, Grēta Grantiņa, group Tools vocal groups Framest and Latvian Voices, as well as Latvian Radio big bands.
The Riga Festival will end with an unusual program Mendelssohn Symphonies and Scottish Bagpipes, prepared by the Sinfonietta Riga Orchestra together with the bagpipe master Robert Jordan from Scotland. This concert will take place on June 18 at the University of Latvia under the direction of Estonian conductor Olari Elts.
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