Windstream jazz music will be played at the opening concert on March 20 at the VEF Palace of Culture. The orchestra will visit Latvia for the first time Riga the musicians will collaborate with a jazz musician from Germany – conductor and saxophonist Stefen Schorn (Steffen Schorn). He is widely known in Europe as a specialist in low woodwind instruments, saxophonist, composer, conductor and pedagogue. As a conductor, he has worked with all German radio big bands: WDR, NDR, HR and SWR and other internationally important orchestras and ensembles. In the first part of the concert, the orchestra Riga together with the soloist, trumpeter Christian Kalva, will be played by Dana Wilson Concerto for jazz trumpet and orchestra, but in the second part the orchestra Riga the big band will interpret Steffen Schorn’s original music and arrangements of popular jazz themes. The concert leader Anete Ashmane-Vilsone will enrich the concert with stories about music.
Traditionally, the festival program includes a concert dedicated to the memory of the victims of the communist genocide. On March 25, in the Riga Cathedral, near the orchestra Riga Jurgis Cābulis will take the conductor’s desk, so that together with the choirs, the Riga Chamber Choir Ave Sol and the mixed choir of the Riga Dome Choir School – as well as the vocal soloists Jolanta Strikaiti-Lapiņa, Ilzi Grēveli-Skaraini, Mārtiņu Zvīguli and Rihardu Macanovski, would play VA Mozart’s Requiem. A requiem in music is traditionally dedicated to the memory of the dead. Mozart’s Requiem in D minor is one of the most famous in world music, which has touched people’s hearts throughout the ages and encouraged silent reflections on life, death and eternity.
At the Good Friday concert, which will be performed on March 29, in Riga’s St. John’s Church, the center of the program is the names of two important sacred music composers. Music by Rihards Dubras will be played Passionate adage, composed for brass band, and the composer’s original music for saxophone quartet. David Maslanka will perform in the Latvian premiere Concerto for saxophone quartet and brass band, which is appreciated worldwide as a musical work that reflects great emotional and spiritual intensity. This music alongside the orchestra Riga The Riga Saxophone Quartet will perform under the leadership of conductor Valda Butān.
On the other hand, on the Second Easter, which this year coincides with International Jokes Day on April 1 at the Palace of Culture Northern lights an event program is offered Jampadracis at Easter, which will especially attract families and children. In the interactive creative workshop at Dmitrijs Pudovs from the Riga Circus School will work with children at 14.00, but at 15.00 in the Great Hall, the musical center of the concert will be highlighted by the orchestra Riga brass ensemble, which will play music characteristic of this type of ensemble. Preparation of the brass ensemble is entrusted to the already mentioned young, promising musician – trumpeter Kristians Kalva. Raitis Zapackis, the conductor of the concert, will intersperse the concert with tales and jokes.
Following the events of this summer’s Olympic Games in the French capital Paris, the orchestra also Riga let yourself be seduced by the musical charm of Paris. At the closing concert of the festival Inspired by Pariswhich will take place on April 12 in the Great Guild, the orchestra’s artistic director and conductor Valdis Butāns has connected almost all the pieces included in the concert program with the theme of Paris – could it be George Gershwin’s enthrallment of Paris in the famous composition an american in paris or Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Firebird premiere in Paris in 1910, or by Ida Gotkowska, a French composer and pianist, a graduate of the Paris Conservatoire and currently living in Paris fire poem, or the world-requested solo percussionist of French origin, graduate of the Paris Conservatoire, Adelaide Ferrieres (Adélaïde Ferrière, France) first visit to Latvia after the orchestra Riga invitation. The charm, passion and excitement with which she approaches each score of notes instantly draws those around her into the language of her music.
Spring Festival Windstream was founded in 2010 and is annually organized and produced by the orchestra Riga. Festival Windstream always begins with the arrival of astronomical spring and includes the time of Easter. This is the only festival in Latvia, where the focus is on a professional brass band with its various types – the orchestra Riga – both as a modern, contemporary wind concert orchestra and as a big band, which interacts with other brilliant performing artists and conductors and vividly complements the cultural space in Latvia and internationally with content unique to its industry and region, contribution of creativity and creative excellence.
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2024-02-01 10:25:50
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