At the weekend, Cesis will host the festival Peter Wax Music April / Day

On Sunday, the solo concert of the opera singer Maija Kovalevsky will shine the pearls of Latvian vocal classics and Peter Vasks, including only a few times played by a chambercant made in 1987 Latvia. Exhibition of Latvian painter Biruta Delle is expected before the concert Gift Opening and conversation with Peter Wax and art collector Helmut Strauh.

Although the Gidon Kremer and Peter Wax united by ancient creative ties, at the festival Peter Wax Music April The world -old violinist will visit for the first time. The creative paths of both masters have crossed more than once – Kremer premiered the two best known composer concerts – violin concert Distant light and meditation for the violin and string tool orchestra Lonely angel.

At the opening concert of the festival on Saturday, April 12, at 19.00, Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica The music of both Peter Wax and other composer’s companions will be played, especially focusing on Arvo Perth Talent, who celebrates his 90th anniversary this year.

The two greats of the Baltic States – Peter Wax and Arvo Perth, are like -minded music, and their creative work brotherly coexist. The music of these composers has become a brand of Latvian and Estonian recognition, including the cornerstone of the Gidon Kremer and his orchestra’s repertoire.

At the concert in Cesis we will hear Peter’s wax Viatore – Dedication to Arvo Perth, and a third of the second cell concert Presence, Arvo Perth Brothers and a dedication to Benjamin Briten, Guy Kanchel Silent Prayer And Johann Sebastian Bach’s concert for two violins.

Sunday, April 13, at 17.00 Latvian Opera Soloist Maija Kovaļevska will give a concert at the Chamber Music Program of the Festival, featuring Peter Wax Chamber Cam Latvia, which premiered as far back as 1987 at the festival Warsaw spring, His song cycle Love songs And folk song decorations. Alongside – pearls of Latvian vocal music as Joseph Vītola At your high white window and Closes the eyes, John Medina There is one evening And Lucy Garut Moon boat.

Pianist Agnese Egliņa, flutist Dita Krenberg, cellist Kristers Schimanis and percussionist Guntars Freibergs will take part in the concert.

Before this concert at At 3:30 pm there is another special event – the recent exhibition of works of Latvian artist Biruta Delles (1944-2025) Gift Opening. Biruta Delle is a painter whose testimony of life for more than sixty years is a selfless return on painting. She has always been able to keep her individual unique handwriting, paint with a heart, not rational mind.

Concert Hall Cesis visitors will be given a unique opportunity to get to know a selection of brilliant paintings from different stages of the artist’s creative life, works that are not widely known and have found a respectful home in the Helmut Strauh private collection.

Interested parties are invited to the opening of the exhibition and the life evaluation conversation, the ability to see the true values ​​with collector Helmut Strauh and composer Peter Wax. The conversation will be moderated by the curator of the exhibition Inese Baranovska. Participation in the event free of charge.

Tickets for the festival Peter Wax Music April Concert Halls on April 12 and 13 Cesis at the box office, Ticket paradise at the point of sale and on the Internet www.bilesuparadize.lv.