French cellist Jean Gijen Keiras / Day will perform at the closing concerts of the Sinfonietta Riga Season

The special guest of this event will be the world -famous French cellist Jean -Gijen Keiras (Jean-Guhen Queyras). The orchestra and the Latvian audience will feature two different cell concerts created by the well -known soloist – the second cellon of Vienna’s classicism great Joseph Haydn and the 20th century. Hungarian avant -garde visionary Georgi Ligetti’s only work -dedicated concert genre.

Describing the choice of the closing concert of the season, the orchestra’s leader Normunds Schne sums up: « It’s great to be on stage with soloists with whom the understanding is instantaneous, without long lectures and the verbalism. Such contact, somehow inexplicably, but has really developed with our guest Jean -Guy Keiras.

The fertile cooperation between the orchestra and the French cellist has now been measured for several years. Witnesses are not only listeners in Latvia, but also in Germany. In the spring of 2019 Sinfonietta Riga And Jean-Guy Keiras climbed the Keiras in front of the audience to the Kologne Philharmonic Stage of the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia. It should be noted that after this successful creative episode, the idea was born in the next program to include the Hungarian composer Gergis Ligetti Cellet Concert.

The creative heritage of the Vienna classic Joseph Haydn, called the Father of the Symphony Sinfonietta Riga The cornerstones of the repertoire and can be sure – also recognition signs. His musical contribution, created for those times in the long life, includes the number of litigation symphony (whole 104!), Concert gymnastics, divertism, uertires, cantata, sacred and opera genre works, string quartets and pianoonates. At the end of its 19th season, the orchestra, together with its stage partner, preferred the Haydn’s second cellon, which premiered in London’s Hannover Square Hall in 1784. Seven years later, during the first visit of Haydn to London’s visit, the author was handed over to the author’s 95 Symphony in the same house.

Geographically and, probably, Mentally Haidnam is related (in his constant pull on experimentalism and new means of musical expression) was Hungarian Ligeti, who lived two centuries later. He called his childhood and youth day home in Romania’s Transylvanian region and Budapest, the Hungarian capital, but later his home is the whole world – Vienna, Cologne, Stockholm, Stanford in California and Hamburg in Germany. The composer of communist ideology in the cuffs of 1956 decides to flee to the west, and this is where he becomes one of the most important in the 20th century. avant -garde figures. The Cellet Concert written in Ligeti in 1966 experiences its premiere on the demarcation line of both worlds, namely West Berlin. In turn Sinfonietta Riga The Romanian concert included in the closing concert program takes us back to the composer’s childhood trails, revealing the archaic rituals and traditions of Transylvania.

Current, multifaceted and unshakable focus on the music itself is characterized by the artistic activity of Jean -Gijen Keiras. The internal motivation of the composer, interpret and audience must be consistent with each other in order to be able to create a unique musical experience. Keiras has mastered the special, only characteristic of the musical interpretation of his own, to Pierre Boulez. This philosophy, alongside the perfect technique and clear, is also a binding tone, also forms Jean Guyen Keiras’s approach to every musical image and concert program.

Equally important in the arsenal of Keiras’s creative expression is both ancient and contemporary music. The French cellist regularly cooperates with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and the Berlin Academy of Earth Music. At the same time, Keiras is a premiere of many compositions made today. His opuses have been entrusted to him by composers such as Ivan Fedele, Gilbert Amy, Bruno Mantovani, Michel Jarel, Johannes-Mary Stud, Thomas Larcher and Tristan Miray. Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the legendary Hungarian composer Peter Eve, Keiras premiered the author’s cellon.
Jean Gijen Keiras has performed with world -famous orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, London Symphony Orchestra, Leipzigas Gewandhaus Orchestra and Zurich Tonhalls Orchestra, in collaboration with directors such as Ivan Fisher, Philip Herevgie, Yannik, Ne-Segen, Francois Ksavier Rot, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Seru Roger Norington. As a resident artist, Keiras has collaborated with Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Building Festival and Strasbourg Philharmonic.

An essential facet of Jean Guy Keiras’s musical activity is chamber music. He is one of Arcanto Quartet The founders, together with violinist Isabella Faust and pianist Alexander Melnikov, are staging the program for the piano trio.

Jean Gijen Keiras is a professor at Freiburg Music University and is an artistic director at the festival Rencontres Musicales de Haute-Provence Fortkier.

Keiras plays a stradivari instrument built in the year of 1707 Kaiser, which the artist has handed over to Quebec -based patron funds Canimex Inc.

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