On Thursday, November 2, at 7 p.m., in the “Symphony closer” concert series, Aivis Greters will return to the conductor’s desk of the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, who just two years ago conducted the Jāzeps Vītolas Latvian Academy of Music graduation exam in the “Lielais dzintars” concert hall, but is currently experiencing a rapid international conductor’s career. career development, Iveta Vēvere, head of public relations of the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, informed the portal.
Aivis Greters is currently assistant conductor at the Gothenburg Opera and “Orchestra de Paris”.
Since 2018, Greters has been the artistic director and conductor of the youth choir “Kamēr…”, before that he was the second conductor and singer. Under Greter’s leadership, “Käimer…” won the Grand Prix at the Tolosa International Choir Competition in Spain (2018), as well as won the European Grand Prix Choir Competition in Areco, Italy (2019), becoming the first choir to win this competition three times.
In the spring of 2021, Greters received the Grand Music Award in the category “Young Artist of the Year”, as well as in the category “For creative, courageous and innovative artistic activity in the conditions of the Covid-19 crisis” for the project of the choir “Until…” at the Cēsu Art Festival.
In the “Symphony Closer” concert cycle, on November 2 at 7 p.m. in the “Lielais dzintars” concert hall, the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra under the direction of conductor Aivja Greter will play the programmatic “Fantastic Symphony” written by the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830, which is an important piece of early romanticism.
The first performance of this symphony took place at the Paris Conservatory on December 5, 1830, while in 1833, Francis Liszt made a piano arrangement of this symphony.
The symphony tells the story of an artist who is gifted with a lively imagination and who fell into despair due to hopeless, unrequited love and tried to commit suicide by poisoning himself with opium. Berlioz provided his own preface and notes for each movement of the symphony, and the notes show how Berlioz toned down the programmatic aspect of the work later in his life.
Leonard Bernstein described the symphony as the first musical expedition into psychedelia because of its hallucinatory and dreamlike nature, and because history suggests that Berlioz composed at least part of it under the influence of opium. According to Bernstein, “Berlioz tells it like it is. You go on a trip and find yourself screaming at your own funeral.”
The concert series “Symphony closer” created by the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra is designed to introduce the listeners to the cornerstones of the world symphonic repertoire – beautiful, classical symphonies that everyone should know.
The concert and talk “Symphony closer. Berlioz’s “Fantastic”” will begin with the introduction of music reviewer Orest Silabriežs, which will reveal the context of the time when the symphony was created and the details of the masterpiece’s construction. After the concert, those present will be invited to an informal conversation with the conductor Aivi Greter.
Tickets for Liepāja Symphony Orchestra concerts are available in the “Bilešu Paradīze” network.
The concert is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, the State Cultural Capital Fund, the city of Liepāja.
2023-10-06 09:37:10
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