Internationally recognized and young musicians will meet in the concert “Born in Latvia” within the framework of Jurmala Festival

From July 27 to 31, the seventh “Jurmala Festival” will take place in person at the Dzintari Concert Hall with five magnificent concerts. Continuing the tradition, on July 31 at At 20.00 the festival will be an opportunity to meet outstanding Latvian-born musicians who have gained wide international recognition. They will be joined on the big stage of Dzintari Concert Hall by new Latvian talents and the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra. The conductor of the concert is the internationally recognized musical director of the Berlin Comic Opera Ainars Rubikis.

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According to Mārtiņš Pučka, a representative of Dzintari Concert Hall, the concert will feature musicians of different generations, Latvian-born music talents, the most prominent artists of Latvian concert life, and Latvian musicians with international fame, whose performance is always expected in the homeland.

The soloists will include Ksenia Sidorova, the princess of the accordion, the winner of the international competition, the virtuoso violinist Daniils Bulajevs, the world-famous opera singer Alexander Antonenko and the opera soloist Laura Grecka, the outstanding percussion virtuoso Guntars Freibergs, as well as the brilliant pianist Aguntese

Listeners will have the opportunity to hear brand new talents, students of Emīls Dārziņš Music High School – cellist Maksim Skibickas, who will play the first part of Dmitry Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto and clarinetist Anna Kubeck, in whose performance we will hear Karl Maria von Weber’s orchestra “Concertino” clarinet They will also perform in joint duets with experienced musicians.

The program will feature the solemn Adolf Skulte’s “Overture”, the third part of Imants Kalniņš’s Sixth Symphony, in which the beauty of the roller coaster pulsates, George Gerschin’s sparkling overture to the musical “Crazy girl”, the spontaneously energetic first part Rhapsody on Moldovan Themes, performed by Daniil Bulaev. We will also hear the rhythmically charged second part of Emanuel Sēžurnė’s Concert for Marimba performed by Guntars Freibergs, as well as compositions by Astor Piacola and Manuel de Falja and the most beautiful songs from the operas of Georges Bizet and Ruger Leonkavallo.

Visitors to the “Jurmala Festival” concerts will have to present an interoperable vaccination or Covid-19 disease certificate, as well as an identity document. The rules also apply to children.

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