Concert dedicated to the 100th anniversary of conductor Jānis Dūmiņš will take place in Riga Dome / Day

According to the professor’s daughter Ilze Dūmiņa-Krojas and Smoke Foundation The State Academic Choir, once conducted by J. Dūmiņš, was invited to the concert of the initiative Latvia, this time under the guidance of its chief conductor and artistic director Māris Sirmass and also Professor J. Dūmiņš, a former master’s student and conductor of the Latvian National Opera Andris Veismans.

Violinist, professor Juris Švolkovskis and singer Ieva Parša will also take part in the concert. Riga Dome Girls’ Choir Tiara and conductor Aira Birziņa to perform the program of the IV School Youth Song and Dance Festival for the Mozart Cantata for Children’s Choir Preparing for the concert with soloist Luiza Anna Razdovska and concertmaster Veronika Rinkulis, who was once included in the festival program under the care of J. Dūmiņš. At the Riga Dome organ Aigars Reinis.

In the anniversary concert you will be able to feel the size of the professor’s creative personality, remember both the thoroughness of his vocal symphonic art and the authenticity of the delicate moods of Latvian choral classics.

Jānis Dūmiņš was an outstanding and unique personality in the history of Latvian choral music – an innovator, seeker and implementer of new ideas, founder and manager of large projects. He has been the honorary chief conductor of the 13th General Song Festival Riga 800, 7 school youth and 6 student song festivals, thus becoming the conductor with the longest senior experience as a song festival chief conductor.

“A conductor without whom no Song Festival could have been imagined for more than half a century; an authoritative educator who has prepared more than 100 of his students in Latvia and Georgia; an interpreter with a fascinating artistic glow, as well as an outstanding music professional , a passionate walker of new roads, respected and honored both in Latvia and elsewhere in the world – this was Jānis Dūmiņš, “the conductor Aigars Reinis describes.

Jānis Dūmiņš’s bright talent is rooted in the musical traditions of the musically gifted family and Riga of the 1920s and 1930s, as well as Baldone, which have aroused interest in both choir and violin art. If not for the illness of the left hand, which made J. Dūmiņš to stop studying the violin, Latvia would have been proud of an excellent violinist. However, the gravity of the fate is most fortunate when the 25-year-old zealous conductor for the first time really felt the mission of the chief conductor, carefully preparing the choirs of the Ogre district entrusted to him for the Song Festival. J. Dūmiņš was the first of the outstanding conductors of the post-war period to perform in front of the united choir at the newly opened Mežaparks Grand Stage in 1955. Over the next 53 years, the old master has conducted the Latvian Grand Choir 14 times, which is the largest contribution of one conductor in the history of the Song Festival.

J. Dūmiņš was awarded the State Prize (1958) and the title of Folk Performer (1977); is an officer of the Order of the Three Stars (1996) and an honorary member of the Council of the Latvian Academy of Sciences (1997); Member of Theodor Reiter Foundation and Riga Latvian Society.

Tickets wwwbilesuparadize.lv and at the box office of Riga Dome Cathedral.

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