From Latvian Radio I studio – jazz singer Laura Polence in the program «Next» / Article / LSM.lv

The new live concert season of Latvian Radio 3 “Klasika” will be opened on September 7 at 6 pm by the Latvian live jazz singer, composer and pianist Laura Polence’s live concert program “Next”.

The concert will feature both Latvian folk song arrangements in jazz rhythms and Laura Polence’s original compositions. They reveal unadulterated vocal expression, theatrical touch and unexpected spontaneity. This concert was scheduled for May, due to an emergency situation, it has been postponed several times, therefore it is especially expected now. The concert will be hosted and Inga Saksone will talk to the musicians.

Laura Polence is a singer, composer, pianist and pantomime artist. After graduating from the conducting class of the Riga Dome Choir School in 2007, Polence moved to the Netherlands to study jazz vocals and composition at the Amsterdam School of Art. After several years of intensive concert tours with the groups “Snowapple”, “How Town”, “Kaja Draksler Octet”, “Latvian Voices”, “Resamba”, it is time for a solo project.

Laura’s stage partners will be active jazz music professionals in Latvia – composer, pianist, drummer, arranger, producer Rūdolfs Macats, double bassist Jānis Rubiks and percussionist Rūdolfs Dankfelds. The accompanying vocalists will be two singers of the vocal group “Latvian Voices” – Una Stade and Zane Stafecka.

Seven more studio concerts are planned until the end of 2020:

• September 28 “Sinfonietta Rīga” string quartet – Kristiāna Šīrante, Agnese Kanniņa, Artūrs Gailis, Kārlis Klotiņš;
• On October 12, in the program “Three apples. For composer Juris Ābols 70 ”- Liene Denisjuka-Straupe (flute), Sandis Šteinbergs (violin), Ēriks Kiršfelds (cello), Kristīne Paula (piano);
• On October 26, Marģers Zariņš dedicated to the centenary of the Daile Theater in the song performance “Poet and Rose” – singers Jolanta Strikaite, Ieva Parša and Jānis Kurševs, pianist Agnese Egliņa and narrator Orests Silabriedis;
• November 9 in the music program of Ludwig van Beethoven – violinist Jevgenijs Čepoveckis and pianist Daumants Liepiņš (concert postponed on March 23);
• November 23 – 21st birthday concert of the ensemble “Altera Veritas”;
• On December 14, the original music program of Uģis Prauliņš will be broadcast live on Euroradio – vocal group “Ars Antiqua Riga”, organist Jānis Pelše, trombonists Vairis Nartišs and Kaspars Majors.

The organization of concerts is supported by the State Cultural Capital Fund.

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