Over the weekend, the festival “Peter Vasks Music April” will continue in the Concert Hall “Cēsis”, which will also present beautiful compositions of Ukrainian academic music and touch on undoubted classical values.
This Friday, April 22, pianist Reinis Zariņš will perform new works by Latvian composers, and the chamber orchestra Kiev soloists will perform music by Ukrainian composers.
Reinis Zariņš’s solo concert “Spring Pulse” will take place in cooperation with the Latvian Composers’ Union festival “Latvian New Music Days”.
It will feature music created by three like-minded composers – Pēteris Vasks, Arturs Maskats and Andrejs Selickis. The program includes both premieres of new works and opuses written by the same authors. In the second part of the concert, the chamber orchestra “Kiev Soloists” will take the stage. At the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the musicians were on tour and, unable to return home, continued to give concerts in Europe, introducing listeners to the music of Ukrainian composers. The program will feature Valentin Silvestrov, Maxim Berezovsky, Oleksandr Shimko and the Ukrainian Folk Song Orchestra.
The closing concert of the festival on Saturday, April 23, performed by Trīna Rūbela, the first violin of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, will feature Peter Wax’s “Distant Light”, Erki Sven Tire’s one of the latest opuses “Phantasma” and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fourth. The concert will also be heard live on the waves of Latvijas Radio 3 Klasika.
Before both concerts, those interested are invited to the pre-concert talks, in which composers Pēteris Vasks and Arturs Maskats and musicians will share their thoughts on the upcoming compositions, meeting moments in music and life. Participation in the negotiations is free of charge.
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