The Riga Festival will feature a concert show for the Night Letters to Dancer / Day

Just days before the summer solstice, the Latvian Radio Choir and conductor Kaspars Putniņš invites listeners to an unusual and multidimensional art event – a concert performance that combines choir music, jazz improvisation and movement. Matisse Chudar, a special composer and jazz guitarist, has created a new work that will feature two outstanding personalities from European stages alongside the choir: Arve Henriksen, one of the most sought after and original European trumpetists in Europe, and Anders Jormin is a multi -award -winning composer. Today’s jazz stars like Jan Garbarek, Bobo Stenson and others.

At the concert center – one of the most prominent Latvian ballet artists Elza Leimane. She is the core of this mysterious message, a dancer sent to whom « night letters » through the sound and is responsible for the movement.

The performance will take place in the circus arena, with viewers sitting around the stage center. This 360 ° format opens up a special sense of intimacy for musicians, light and movement, allowing you to sink into the spatial sound experience.

Arve Henriksens (Arve Henriksen) Represents a distinctly unique sound – his trumpet voice as if he speaks and is often compared to the human voice. Henriksen is a frequent guest at the most prestigious European festivals and concert halls. His album Cartography (ECM) has become the benchmark for its time in atmospheric music.

Anders Jormin (Anders Jormin) For decades have been one of the leading double -Europeans in Scandinavia and Northern Europe, who has collaborated with jazz icons such as Charles Lloyd, Tomasz Stańko and others. He is also a professor and lecturer of music, who is respected in both academic and jazz circles around the world.

Matisse Chudar is widely known as one of the brightest jazz guitarists in today’s Latvia, also appreciated worldwide. In the composition, his musical language combines the freedom of jazz, the richness of the classics and the richness of the ambient moods. In this concert performance, he opens the door to the world with both his game and the new work composition, where choir music meets the skill of free improvisation, allowing art to happen here and now – interacting with the moment and creativity.

Ivars Arutjunjan is one of the most prominent new generation of jazz musicians in Latvia who has also recognized in Europe and is a true jazz drum master. Also received The Great Kristaps 2023 In the category Composer For music for the movie Shameless. In 2019, along with Matisse Chudar, he received the record music prize Gold microphone For the trio Auziņš – Chudar – Arutyunyan album Baltic.

Elza Leimane is one of the most outstanding Latvian ballet artists, highly appreciated in international competitions and in the Latvian cultural space. She has repeatedly received the Latvian Ministry of Culture Award as well as Gaming night In prize categories An annual ballet artist in the role of first plan and Annual Achievement in Ballet Art. Leimane is also a double dance prize winner category Ballet choreographer. In 2018, Elza Leimane was awarded the highest award of the Latvian state – the Order of the Three Stars for the merits of culture and the contribution to the promotion of the name of Latvia in the world.

Between 2000 and 2008, she has made significant success in international competitions – gained The best new dancers The title of Rudolf Nuriyev’s Ballet Competition in Budapest, 1st place in the Vienna Ballet Competition, has become the finalist of the Eurovision Young Dance Competition, has received a silver medal at the International South African Ballet Competition and has become a diploma of the International New York Ballet Competition. The artist has portrayed Tittuplomas as the Latvian National Opera and Ballet productions, and has also performed on prestigious European and world stages, including dancing Gisell in London, was a guest artist in the opera house of Cape Town, Johannesburg and Cairo.

The Latvian Radio Choir is one of the most sought after professional choirs in the world, which is followed by spending such as the BBC, to its readers, and recommends its readers The New York Times, The Advertiser And many others. The choir is a demanded guest every year in the most prestigious world music festivals and concert halls, and its action affects the direction of world choir music. Latvian Radio Choir has won prestigious awards such as Grammy, gramophone, icma (International Classical Music Prize), as well as Latvian Great Music Awards, Latvian Music Record Awards and Multiple Winner of the Latvian Coramic Prize.

Together, these artists promise to create a literally unique and unique event in which the voices of the Latvian Radio Choir, the world -class musicians’ improvisation and the airy dance of Elza Leimane will merge into a united art adventure – just at the time of profane and mystical fusion, nature approaches its summer climax.

Riga Festival There is still a chance to hear a grand closing concert Shipsea. In a symphonic light June 19 this year at the Dzintari Concert Hall. The concert will feature the original music of Shipsea or singer, music and text author, producer Jan Schipkevitz, the most popular compositions from Shipsea’s album Illuminates me and Great expectations, as well as the compositions of other authors in Shipsea’s sound that will be performed with this concert with the chamber orchestra Sinfonietta Riga Under the leadership of Normunds Schne, instrumental groups and special guest artists Aminatas and Kristin Paci.

Tickets can be purchased Ticket paradise at the box office and on the Internet.

More – on the festival’s website www.rigasfestivals.lv