News About us Calendar Composers Performers
Musicologists Institutions Catalogues Projects Links







Choose a category
 
Monday, September 06, 2010
The Latvian National Opera to Open its Season on September 9

Latvian Institute 

The Latvian National Opera is opening the 2010/2011 season on September 9 with the annual award ceremony and concert presented by the company “Latvijas Gāze”, the opera’s main patron.
The opera’s programme for October will feature celebrations of the 120...
www link
Autumn Chamber Music Festival: September 13 – October 2

Latvian Institute 

This year the Autumn Chamber Music Festival will take place in Rīga, Cēsis, Auce and Rēzekne and its patron is world famous Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks. The motto of the festival is “tete-a-tete” which underlines the idea of creating the festival as a ...
Friday, August 06, 2010
The 13th International Sacred Music Festival this August and September

culture.lv 

From August 19 to September 4, the 13th International Sacred Music Festival will take place in Latvia, including seven special concerts by the “Latvia” National Academic Choir, conducted by Māris Sirmais.

The festival opening will take place on August...
Monday, June 07, 2010
Kristaps Pētersons Wins UNESCO International Rostrum for Composers Competition, Young Composers Category

 


Latvian composer Kristaps Pētersons won the under-30s category award with his composition “Twilight Chants” (“Mijkrēšļa dziedājumi”) at the International Rostrum for Composers Competition, organized by UNESCO, that took pl...
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Andris Poga wins the Yevgeny Svetlanov International Conductors Competition in Montpellier, France

culture.lv 

Andris Poga, artistic director of the RIGA Professional Symphonic Band, has been awarded first prize at the Yevgeniy Svetlanov International Conductors Competition in Montpelier, France. Christof Allstedt of Germany came in second, while Daniel Cohen of ...
www link
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Umeå and Rīga Will be European Capitals of Culture in 2014

Latvian Institute 


On May 10, the EU Council of Ministers in accordance with the international selection panel’s recommendation decided Umeå in Sweden and Rīga in Latvia will be Europe’s Capitals of Culture 2014. With that sounded the formal starting sho...
www link
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Latvian Radio Choir - once again on the Finnish ONDINE label

LMIC 

A new recording of the Latvian Radio Choir has been released by the Finnish ONDINE label - Sergei Rachmaninov's setting of the Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom - Eastern Christianity's common Eucharistic service liturgy – which is regarded as on...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Latvian musicians to grace the Met next season

 


Four Latvian singers and one conductor have the honor of performing in the renowned Metropolitan Opera House in New York during the 2010/2011 season, the Latvian National Opera reports. October 23, tenor Aleksandrs Antoņenko is set to sing Dmitry in Pet...
Friday, February 27, 2004
Choral collection "Ave Maria" by Rihards Dubra

Church Music Quarterly, October 1995 

These pieces, four of which employ Marian texts and the others similarly well - known words, have a great deal to offer. Although the general idiom is diatonic, contemporary techniques in choral writing are used freely, and for the discerning choir direct...

 

 


      


http://www.nkmva.gov.lv/ 

 


Mūs atbalsta: