“At the concert, musicians of different generations will meet on the same stage, musical luminaries born in Latvia – both rapidly growing young talents, the most visible artists of Latvian concert life, and Latvian musicians with international fame, whose performances in their homeland are always a welcome event,” said Vilipson.
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Tenor Mihails Chulpajevs, cellist Margarita Balanas, pianist Georgijs Osokins, soprano Ilze Grevele-Skaraine and other young artists performed at the concert. The orchestra at the Jūrmala festival was conducted by Ainārs Rubiķis, chief conductor of the Berlin Comic Opera.
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The concert featured both a diverse program of instrumental and vocal music with classical music works, as well as 20th and 21st century pieces composed by foreign and Latvian composers.
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In the performance of pianist Osokina, it was possible to listen to the slow part of Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto, while the leading tenor of the Latvian National Opera, Čulpajevs, “will embody the world of feelings of the young poet Werther” from the opera “Werther” by Jules Masné, said the representative of the Dzintari concert hall. The finalist of the international Hans Gabor Belvedere young opera soloist competition, Grevele – Skaraine, sang the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Cellist Margarita Balanas, laureate of this year’s Grand Music Prize, performs in the world’s most famous concert halls – Albert Hall in London, Westminster Palace, Berlin Philharmonic, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles and elsewhere.
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“Margarita’s cello playing is characterized by deeply felt expressiveness and singing, which we will hear in the opuses of Gabriel Fauré and Camille Sensans, interwoven with genius melodism,” said Willipson.
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The young pianist Evelina Jēkabsone has graduated from the Emīlas Dārziņas Music High School this year, and has already given concerts in the Presidential Palace and the “Artissimo” concert hall. Sonja Misiņa is one of the “wonderful talents of the Emīlas Dārziņas Music High School – a percussion virtuoso and a ballerina”, said the representative of the concert hall.
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The concert also featured Lolita Ritman’s “Overture to the Light”, Benjamin Britten’s masterpiece from the opera “Peter Grimes” – the symphonic suite “Four Sea Interludes”. Concertino Bianco by Georg Pelechs, “permeated with liveliness and bright joy,” as Willipson put it, and works by other composers were also heard.
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