The Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra and it’s leader, international violin star Gidon Kremer invites to the 17th rendition of Kremerata Baltica festival at the Dzintari Concert Hall in Jūrmala. Both performances scheduled for 12th and 13th of September are dedicated to the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven and will feature a row on international soloists - Georgijs Osokins (piano), Hugo Ticciati (violin), Luciana Mancini (mezzo soprano) and Giedre Dirvanauskaite (cello).
The September 12th event will be a special chamber music performance conducted by maestro Kremer and joined by this season’s artist in residence, pianist Georgijs Osokins as well as the principal cellist of the orchestra Giedre Dirvanauskaite. Together with orchestra’s string quintet they will perform a program by Schumann, Mendelssohn and Beethoven.
In the closing concert alongside maestro Gidon Kremer and Georgijs Osokins, special guests will be welcomed – violinist Hugo Ticciati, who has repeatedly performed compositions by Latvian composers, as well as mezzo-soprano Luciana Mancini. The Chilean-Swedish singer specializes in early music and has frequently performed with such early music ensembles as the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and L’Arpeggiata. The evening’s programme will open with two world premieres – the world-renowned Lithuanian pianist and contemporary music enthusiast Andrius Žlabis has created a new piece for Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica titled Kaleidoscope of the lost time, but Arturs Maskats, who enjoys a bit of the nostalgic ache, has composed music for poems by Emily Dickinson in the Concerto Summer Dreams for voice, violin and chamber orchestra. The 17th Kremerata Baltica festival will end with a performance of this year's celebrant – Beethoven and his piano concerto No. 4 described after its premiere as “the most amazing, artistic, unusual and complicated concerto composed by Beethoven”.
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