“For five years, our doors have been wide open, receiving more than a million visitors. More than a thousand events have taken place thanks to the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, Liepaja Music and Art High School, Liepaja Theater Performers and various independent creative associations. These frequent meetings are possible thanks to Liepāja Municipality, the State Cultural Capital Foundation and you, dear listeners! Thank you for being with us for all these five years! ” on the festive evening stressed the concert hall manager Timur Thomson.
Remembering the recent history, Gunars Ansins, Deputy Chairman of Liepāja City Council, remarked: “Today I remembered the opening of the concert hall five years ago. The smell of parquet, fear or Liepāja concert hall will not be too big, will we fill it with content? Today I can say – yes, we have done it This is not just a building marked in the heart of Liepaja. It is a building filled with culture and content! ” At the end of the speech, G. Ansiņš presented a gift of remembrance and gratitude to the author of the idea of the concert hall, the former conductor of the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, Imants Resnis.
The content and concept of the anniversary concert program was created by musicologist Orests Silabriedis, who during the evening revealed to the audience less known facts about the city’s professional music life since the time of the Duchy of Courland. In the course of the evening, the most important music masters of the last centuries were illuminated – conductor Arvīds Jansons and opera singer Iraīda Jansone, Liepāja opera soloist Mariss Vētra, composer Alfreds Kalnins, long-time artistic director of the orchestra Imants Resnis and other brilliant personalities.
The listeners could enjoy a historically sound insight into the rich musical history of Liepāja and go on a retrospective trip together with pianist Agnes Egliņš, soprano Margarita Wilson, tenor Artjomas Safronovs and Liepāja Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gintars Rinkevičs. The second part of the concert featured world classics – Peter Tchaikovsky’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra was heard by the brilliant and internationally acclaimed soloist Daniel Lozakovich.
“I didn’t expect this concert hall to be so big, beautiful, young and ambitious! I like it better here than at the new Elbe Philharmonic!” after the concert the miracle of the current violin art world Daniels Lozakovičs.
“Five years is a time that has allowed us to understand where we are going and we have had the good fortune to welcome a wide variety of world music stars to this stage. From almost all continents of the planet and more than 70 countries around the world. Great amber has become an important center of music and cultural events in Latvia. The stubbornness of Kurzeme has not allowed the music to stop sounding at this time as well, “emphasized Baiba Bartkeviča, the artistic director of the concert hall.
Music lovers and enthusiasts were also invited to a historical pre-concert reading Liepāja cultural watercolor. The path in music to the Great Amber. Researchers of Liepaja University – Professor Ilze Valce and Doctor of Arts Vēsma Lēvalde – shared the research on the history of Liepāja’s music and creative life.
Liepaja concert halls Great amber Construction began in 2013, but two years later, on November 6, 2015, the concert hall was opened. The multifunctional music and art center is home to the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra and the Liepaja Secondary School of Music, Art and Design, as well as the temporary small hall of the Liepaja Theater. Every year the concert hall hosts more than 200 different events, covering a wide range of artistic, corporate and educational events – the concert hall plays symphonic and classical music, world and popular music, educational events and master classes, choir music, chamber music and solo concerts, various events for children and youth audiences, dance and theater performances as well as art exhibitions, corporate and social events, conferences, trainings and presentations.
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