The second “Osokina Freedom Festival @ 152” will take place in Riga from July 7 to 11, during which it will perform nine concerts with special concert programs for almost a week. Ģirts Krūmiņš, Deniss Pashkevich, Raimonds Tiguls, Ieva Parša, Rihards Lībietis, Magdalena Geka, Iveta Cālīte, Katrīna Gupalo, Gints Smukais and the author of the festival idea Andrejs Osokins.
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“Despite how difficult and even challenging it is to organize public events during this pandemic, which have to meet so many different requirements and constraints, we have chosen to run this festival this year as well. We are doing this because it is extremely important for us to create opportunities for ourselves. , and other wonderful artists to meet the audience in person, feel the emotions of the audience and the thrill of a real concert, “says Andrejs Osokins.
Two types of concerts are planned during the festival – all will be available to listeners with a valid Covid-19 disease or vaccination certificate, while three concerts are also intended for those music lovers who can present a test certificate confirming a negative Covid-19 test.
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The opening concert of the festival on the evening of July 7 will feature a magnificent piano music program played by Andrejs Osokins. The special guest of the concert will be the outstanding Latvian mezzo-soprano Ieva Parša. The program includes the diversity of German romanticism in piano music – the most outstanding opuses of Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schuman, Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johannes Brahms.
On July 8, both the concert of Denis Pashkevich’s electro-acoustic music project “TEN KA” with the program “sonic geometry: structures, patterns and forms” and Andrei Osokin’s solo concert dedicated to piano music of German Romanticism will take place. Both concerts can be attended by spectators with a valid Covid-19 certificate of illness, vaccination or testing.
On July 9, the singer’s Katrīna Gupalo’s solo program with Imants Kalniņš and Katrīna’s own music for voice and piano will be performed, as well as there will be several premieres and surprises. Immediately afterwards, Katrīna will perform the most beautiful musical and film music together with Andrejs Osokins. The concert will feature songs and compositions by Laiza Minelli, Marilyn Monroe, Edith Piaf, Audrey Hepburn, Elvis Presley, George Gershwin and other musicians.
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On July 10, for the first time, the audience’s favorite actor Ģirts Krūmiņš will meet Andrejs Osokins in a concert performance, which will be a tribute to outstanding 20th century personalities in music. In this concert performance, the emotionally saturated sensitive perception of the world expressed in the love poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva and Velga Krile will intertwine with the compositions of Lucia Garuta, Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Rachmaninov, Peter Tchaikovsky, Peter Tchaikovsky, musical silver age compositions. This concert will take place at 6 pm and 8 pm, the last of which will also be open to the audience with a valid Covid-19 disease and vaccination and testing certificate.
The closing day of the festival, July 11, will be full of contrasts. It will be sung by violinist Magdalena Geka and pianist Iveta Cālīte with a concert of exquisite chamber music “Women – Composers”. The two musicians are united by a strong, temperamental and at the same time extremely subtle creative spirit, as well as close ties with the musical life of Paris. The program includes music for violin and piano by Klara Schumane, Maija Einfelde, Ruta Paidere and Amanda Maiere.
Two virtuoso guitarists – Rihards Lībietis and Gints Smukais will play the folk and original music program at the closing concert of the festival at 7 pm, who will be joined by both Katrīna Gupalo and composer and master of ambient music Raimonds Tiguls. The program will intertwine many of the listeners’ favorite compositions with meditative and experimental music, creating a colorful palette of sounds, rich emotions and a little Mediterranean feeling.
Also this year, the festival will take place in the Piano Salon in Riga, 152 Brīvības Street, thus preserving the concept of a mini-festival, which provides an opportunity to attend concerts for a narrow circle of listeners, ensuring a special sense of closeness between artists and listeners.
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