Internationally recognized and young Latvian talents will play music on one stage at Jurmala Festival

From July 27 to 31, the seventh will be held in person at the Dzintari Concert Hall with five magnificent concerts. Jurmala festival. Continuing the tradition established in the centenary of Latvia, on July 31 at 8 pm in the concert “Born in Latvia” outstanding, Latvian-born musicians who have gained wide international recognition will perform. They will be joined on the big stage by new Latvian talents and the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra. The conductor of the concert – the internationally recognized musical director of the Berlin Comic Opera Ainars Rubikis, the organizers of the festival informed. –

Musicians of different generations will meet on the same stage in the concert. The soloists will include accordionist Ksenija Sidorova, violinist Daniils Bulajevs, opera singer Aleksandrs Antonenko and opera soloist Laura Grecka, percussionist Guntars Freibergs, as well as pianist Agnese Egliņa. Listeners will have the opportunity to hear brand new talents, students of Emils Darzins Music High School – cellist Maksim Skibickas, who will play the first part of Dmitry Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto, and clarinetist Anna Kubeck, who will perform Karl Maria von Weber’s’net They will also perform in joint duets with experienced musicians. Along with the soloists, the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and the chief conductor of the Berlin Comic Opera Ainārs Rubiķis will take the stage of the Dzintari Concert Hall.

The program will feature Ādolfs Skulte’s “Overture”, the third part of Imants Kalniņš’s Sixth Symphony, George Gershwin’s overture to the musical “Crazy Girl”, the first part of Kārlis Lāčs’ piano concerto, The musicians will also perform the second part of the Emanuel Sežurne Concert for Marimba, the compositions and chants of Astor Piacola and Manuela de Falja from the operas of Georges Bizet and Rugero Leonkavallo.

Visitors to Jurmala Festival concerts will be required to present an interoperable vaccination or Covid-19 illness certificate, as well as an identity document. The rules also apply to children.

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