Liepāja Symphony Orchestra will close the last concert season under maestro Rinkevičs / Article

Guntis Kuzma will take over the position of chief conductor of the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra from September.

The Liepāja Symphony Orchestra will present the greats of classical music – Anton Brukner and Sergejs Prokofiev – at the closing concert of the season in the concert hall “Lielais dzintars” with the main conductor Gintars Rinkevičs.

Bruckner’s Third Symphony is dedicated to the German composer Richard Wagner and is therefore known as the Wagner Symphony. “A series of masterpieces begins with this work, in which Brukner’s creativity reveals the composer’s monumental abilities,” noted the representatives of the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra.

Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto premiered in 1913 with the composer himself at the piano, and is still considered one of the most technically challenging piano concerts that only a rare pianist can play accurately. At the closing concert of the season, the outstanding Latvian pianist Daumants Liepiņš accepted this challenge.

Maestro Gintars Rinkevičs has been the main conductor of the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra for five concert seasons.

The orchestra said: “His interpretation of Carl Orph’s” Carmina Burana “, as well as the reading of Mahler’s First and Second Symphonies, has been well remembered. Symphony Orchestra Concerts in India and Sri Lanka. “

Under his direction, the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra has recorded two Latvian music albums in recent years. Last year, “Wind Glow” won the Latvian Music Record of the Year Award “Golden Microphone” with works by seven composers – women. An album with music by Peter Barison has just been released.

Gintars Rinkevičs is one of the most outstanding internationally acclaimed Lithuanian conductors, a professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, the founder and artistic director of the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra. From 1996 to 2003 he was the chief conductor of the Latvian National Opera, winner of the 1996 Grand Music Prize. He has been the principal conductor of the Malmö Opera and Musical Theater, conducting prominent German, Danish and Russian orchestras. Rinkevich has conducted opera performances in Salzburg, the Royal Albert Hall in London, and the Elysée Country Theater in Paris, Taiwan and Hong Kong. He often visited the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. For many years he has conducted the Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra.

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