On Wednesday, May 19, at 7 pm in the choir of the National Library of Latvia, violinist Magdalena Geka and pianist Iveta Cālīte will perform online in the concert program “Gorgeous Sounds”. The concert will be available online on the Latvian National Library’s Facebook and Youtube channels. The concert is supported by the State Culture Capital Foundation and the Riga City Council.
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Through this concert program, violinist Magdalena Geka and pianist Iveta Cālīte intend to present works by two outstanding representatives of Romanticism – Klara Schuman and Amanda Maiere, as well as less frequently played compositions for violin and piano by contemporary Latvian composers Ruta Paidere and Maija Einfelde.
If Clare Schumann (Clara Schumann, 1819-1896) are known to fans of classical music as the wife of Robert Schuman, less well known is the fact that she was a great composer. Swedish composers and violinists Amanda Maiere (Amanda Röntgen-Maier, 1853-1894) the excellent sonata for violin and piano has gained more and more popularity all over the world in recent years, but in Latvia it has probably never sounded. The concert will also feature a composition by the Latvian composer Ruta Paidere (1977) living in Hamburg. Crossroads ”, as well as the 3rd sonata of Maija Einfelde (1939), which has been played very rarely since its premiere in 1995.
The violinist Magdalena Geka, who has twice been nominated for the Grand Music Prize, and the outstanding pianist and chamber musician Iveta Cālīte have been performing regularly together since 2009. The most significant projects of recent years are the Latvian music concert “Peter Vasks invites. Autumn. Sigulda ”online from Sigulda concert hall“ Baltais flīģelis ”, which was praised by both critic Armands Znotins and Latvian Radio 3“ Klasika ”program“ Post Factum ”, and which was watched by about 2000 unique viewers. Also very important for the duo is the recording of Maija Einfelde’s sonatas at the end of 2020 for the publishing house “Skani” in cooperation with the Liepāja concert hall “Lielais Dzintars”.
Playing Latvian music has been and will continue to be at the center of the duo’s artistic activity, in the future it is planned to pay more attention to 20th century compositions for violin and piano, French music (both musicians studied in Paris at the same time), and conceptually and artistically relevant projects.
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