AUTUMN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL. CHAMBER MUSIC DAY IN SPĪĶERI
Participants
In honour of the International Music Day
12pm The Home Tales of the Music Gnome hosted by Karina Bērziņa
The Music Gnome and his friends, frogs and larks live in the music sheets and they are eager to tell what a fun it is to play music together - a simple and exciting tale about chamber music for children
2pm The Three Graces - nominated for the Grand Music Award of Latvia 2010 for the Best Ensemble Performance Guna Āboltiņa on violoncello, Elīna Endzele on percussion, Agnese Egliņa on the piano
A new work by Jēkabs Nīmanis and music by Ástor Piazzolla, Kristaps Pētersons, Osvaldo Golijov, Nadia Boulanger will be performed.
4pm Schubertiade - pianists Aldis Liepiņš and Agnese Egliņa, singers Gunta Davidčuka, Jānis Kurševs, and Krišjānis Norvelis
Songs, ländlers and waltzes by Franz Schubert, as well as stories about the composer by Aldis Liepiņš
6pm Lisztomania - pianist Reinis Zariņš will perform piano compositions by Franz Liszt and will tell stories about the composer
8pm Flaming Hot Rhythms - Sinfonietta Rīga String Quartet and Ivo Krūskops, percussion
Ástor Piazzolla's tango, Nikolai Kapustin's string quartet, La Cumparsita, habaneras, Mexican melodies - the red hot chili and rum of the world of music.
10pm Jazz Before Mid-night - saxophonist Nick Gotham and Riga Libre