“Normund Schne will remain at Sinfonietta Rīga until May 2026, when I will end my work with Sinfonietta,” the conductor revealed in a conversation with LTV “Kultūras ščičním”.
Schne stated: “I will have been with the orchestra for 20 years, which is a lot, and I think it is urgent that someone else come in my place.”
Normunds Shne has been the artistic director and conductor of the state chamber orchestra “Sinfonietta Rīga” since the orchestra was founded in 2006.
About “Sinfonietta Riga”
“The musicians of Sinfonietta Rīga are competent, erudite and creative artists.” This is how the orchestra describes itself: “They continue to explore the musical heritage of the Baroque and Viennese Classicism with unrelenting passion, they keep updating the New Vienna School and other musical currents and styles of the 20th century for their listeners, they look for bright phenomena in the world of contemporary music.” The orchestra has set one of its tasks to promote the development of the chamber symphony genre in Latvian music, twice a year ordering a new score of this genre from contemporary Latvian composers.
“Sinfonietta Rīga” regularly cooperates with guest conductors, creating content and ideologically different programs together with Pāvo and Nēmi Jervi, Heinz Holligeras, Jona Sturgårds, Christoph Poppen, Olari Elts, Juha Kangas and Tena Kaljusti.
Brilliant soloists performed with “Sinfonietta Rīga”: coloratura soprano Jūlija Ležneva, countertenor Beđuns Meta and soprano Inga Kalna, pianists Kristians Bezeidenhauts, Nelson Gerners, Behzods Abduraimovs and Yevgēnijs Sudbins, the best-known Latvian organist Iveta Apkalnas, violinists Izabella Fausta, Koļa Blahers, Alina Ibragimova , Vineta Sareika, Baiba Skride, Peka Kúsisto and Tomas Cetsmair, cellists Sola Gabet and Jean-Guillen Queiras, as well as Ukrainian violist Maxim Risanov. The orchestra has performed several times together with the outstanding clarinetist and composer Jergas Vidmans. Fruitful collaborations have also been formed with trombonist Christian Lindberg and percussionists Martin Grübinger, Evelyn Gleny and Peter Erskine, accordionist Ksenia Sidorova and Argentine bandoneonist Marcelo Nisinman, English horn soloist Dominic Wollenweber, oboist Alexey Ogrinchuk and early music connoisseurs Andrew Lawrence-King and Enrico Onofri. Important projects were created together with the Latvian Radio Choir and conductor Sigvardas Kļavas, as well as the national academic choir “Latvija” and conductor Māris Sirmo.
Along with concert life in Latvia and the Baltic countries, the chamber orchestra “Sinfonietta Rīga” has performed in the Royal “Concertgebouw” and the “Muziekgebouw” in Amsterdam, the Elba Philharmonic and the “Laeiszhalle” in Hamburg, the Cologne Philharmonic, the Hercules Hall in Munich, the “Alte Oper” in Frankfurt, the “De Doelen” in Rotterdam “, in concert halls in Eindhoven, Enschede and Groningen, as well as in New York’s Lincoln Center in the USA.
“Sinfonietta Rīga” regularly participates in festivals of various scales, both in Latvia and outside its borders. In 2016 and 2021, the orchestra under the leadership of maestro Pāvo Jervi opened the Pärnu Festival, and in 2023 the notable musical forum was opened together with the founder of the famous conductor dynasty – Nemi Jervi. Several times Riga musicians have visited the prominent Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm. Together with the Latvian Radio Choir “Sinfonietta Rīga” debuted at the Elba Philharmonic in February 2017, playing a retrospective of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s music at the introverted art festival “Lux Aeterna”; in June 2018, the two collectively performed the same program at the “Kissingen Summer” festival in the Bavarian resort town In Badkissingen, marking the centenary of the proclamation of the Republic of Latvia, “Sinfonietta Rīga” made its debut at the Cafe Budapest festival in October 2018, but together with accordionist Ksenija Sidorova, gave concerts in Malmo, Gothenburg and Årebro concert halls.
The orchestra’s performance in the cultural and musical life of its country has been evaluated five times with the country’s highest award in academic music – the Grand Music Award, the last time the important award was received for the performance of Gérard Grisé’s opus “Vortex Temporum” at the Latvian New Music Days in April 2021. The participation of the orchestra “Sinfonietta Rīga” in the arrangement of the album “Adam`s Lament” by Estonian composer Arvo Pert, released by ECM, was awarded with the prestigious recording award “Grammy”. The other recording albums were released by the orchestra’s regular cooperation partners – “Wergo”, “Ondine”, “Edition records”, “Challange Records”, “Signum Records” and the Latvian National Sound Recording Company “Skani”.
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2024-02-05 16:45:31
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