ARTS & EVENTS GUIDE

LATVIA

THURSDAY, JULY 14 - JURMALA FESTIVAL

Aleksandrs Antonenko. Solo Concert
18:00 @ The Small Hall, Dzintari Concert Hall, Jurmala
Incandescent, vital, and tonally warm is the voice of tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko which has flared up in many places around the world. Since 2004, he has become the most internationally recognised Latvian tenor and has had successful debuts in Dusseldorf, Berlin and Graz Operas, Semperoper Dresden, Oslo and Stockholm Royal Opera Theatres, Geneva, Paris, Rome and Munich Opera Houses, Vienna State Opera, Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, and Metropolitan Opera House in New York, where Antonenko will sing Otello in the new season opener this September. He has received the Latvian Grand Music Award, the prestigious Jussi Bjorling award voted by Royal Swedish Opera artists, and in 2014, he was awarded the Excellence Award, bestowed by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia for excellent achievements in culture on international scale. Daniels Pavluts, piano. Programme: Richard Strauss

FRIDAY, JULY 15 - JURMALA FESTIVAL

Broadway night
20:00 @ The Great Hall, Dzintari Concert Hall, Jurmala
Damian Humbley, Adrian der Gregorian, Deborah Myers, Jurmala Festival Orchestra, Conductor Robert Purvis
Programme: Arias and duets from Leonard Bernstein’s musicals - Wonderful Town; West Side Story; Richard Rodger’s musicals - The King And I; Oklahoma!; Carousel; Frederick Loewe’s - Camelot; Gigi; Andrew Lloyd Webber’s - Jesus Christ Superstar.

SATURDAY, JULY 16 - JURMALA FESTIVAL

Closing night. Viva Italia
20:00 @ The Great Hall, Dzintari Concert Hall, Jurmala
Aleksandrs Antonenko, tenor, Egils Silins, bass baritone, Alisa Zinovjeva, soprano, Marlena Keine, soprano
Jurmala Festival Orchestra, Conductor Vello Pahn
Programme: Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Gaetano Donizetti opera arias and overtures

ESTONIA

THURSDAY, JULY 14
Viktoria Mullova and the Estonian Festival Orchestra
20:00 @ Parnu Concert Hall
Erkki-Sven Tuur - Incantation of Tempest, Jean Sibelius - Violin concerto, op. 47, Carl Nielsen - Symphony no. 2

FRIDAY, JULY 15

Festival Gala Concert

19:00 @ Parnu Concert Hall
M. Adachi (viola, Japan/France), G. Anichenko (cello, Belarus/Spain), E. Bindere (violin, Latvia), D. Biron (cello, France), J. Bloxham (cello, UK), J. Bouskova (harp, Czech Republic) F. Donderer (violin, Germany), A. Frank-Gemmill (horn, UK), M. Hunt (clarinet, UK), M. Jarvi (cello), M. Jarvi (piano), M. Jarvi (violin), J. Koch (oboe, Germany), M. Kuuskmann (bassoon), D. Lavrova (violin, Russia/UK), V. Lucas (flute, France), M. Mocanita (viola, Germany), M. Poll (violin), S. Rahman (piano, UK), T. Ruubel (violin), T. Vavilov (clarinet), J. Ounapuu-Mocanita (violin), P. Xu (viola, China/Germany), 12-viola ensemble

Programme: Lalo - Piano Quintet in A-flat major, Barber - Summer Music, Op. 31, Rachmaninov - Trio Elegiaque No.1 in G minor, Bartok - Contrasts, Saint-Saens - Fantaisie for Violin and Harp, Op.124, Bartok - Romanian Folk Dances, Brahms - String Sextet No. 2

SATURDAY, JULY 16
Jarvi Academy Youth Symphony Orchestra
19:00 @ Parnu Concert Hall
Sten Heinoja (piano), Neeme and Kristjan Jarvi and the participants
of the Jarvi Academy
Veljo Tormis - 2nd Overture, Sergei Rachmaninov - Piano concert no. 2
Sergei Prokofiev - Symphony no. 4

SUNDAY, JULY 17
Final Concert of Parnu Music Festival
 20:00 @ Parnu Concert Hall

Estonian Festival Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi, Matthias Goerne (baritone)

Modest Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain, Gustav Mahler - Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony no. 6

Ensemble Rondellus
18:00 @ Tallinn, Kadriorg Palace
    
Concert series - Ringing masterpieces of Kadriorg
Allegory of Marriage - Copy by an unknown artist, after Titian

Ensemble Rondellus, Maria Staak (vocal, hurdy-gurdy), Johanna Maria Jaama (fiddle), Johannes Christopher Staak (vocal), Robert Staak (lute, percussions)

Programme: Italian music of the Titian era, Tromboncino, Cara, lute songs

In collaboration with the Art Museum of Estonia

LITHUANIA

SATURDAY, JULY 16

SUMMER RHAPSODY

A piano recital
21:00 @ St. Catherine’s Church (30 Vilniaus St., Vilnius)
Performers: AKVILE SILEIKAITE (piano, Switzerland), DOMINYKAS GIRCIUS (piano)
Programme: L. van Beethoven, J. Brahms, M. Ravel, C. Saint-Saens

SUNDAY, JULY 17
VISIONS FROM BRAZIL
19:00 @ Vilnius University Botanical Gardens (43 Kairenu St., Vilnius)
A delicious cocktail of Latin American music

MONDAY, JULY 18

SACRED MUSIC HOURS
SEATTLE GIRLS’ CHOIR (US)
19:00 @ St. Casimir’s Church (34 Didzioji St., Vilnius)
Programme: W. Dawson, J. Berkey, G. Verdi, A. Copland, V. Miskinis, etc.
Artistic director and conductor JACOB WINKLER (US)

AWAITED MEETINGS

World premiere from France
19:00 @ St. Catherine’s Church (30 Vilniaus St., Vilnius)
Soloists: DOMINIQUE DE WILLIENCOURT (cello, France), MICHEL MICHALAKAKOS (viola, France), Vilnius City Municipality ST. CHRISTOPHER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, Conductor DONATAS KATKUS
Programme: D. de Williencourt, D. Popper and etc.

TUESDAY, JULY 19

SACRED MUSIC HOURS

19:00 @ St. Casimir’s Church (34 Didzioji St., Vilnius)
A recital by the winner of the International M. K. Ciurlionis Organists’ Competition for
2015, MONA ROZDESTVENSKYTE (organ, Lithuania/Germany)

Programme: J. S. Bach, F. Liszt, M. Reger, J. Rheinberger, R. Schumann

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20

CONFESSIONS OF LOVE FOR THE FLAMENCO
Flamenco sounds on the piano
19:00 @ St. Catherine’s Church (30 Vilniaus St., Vilnius)
ABDON ALCARAZ (piano, Spain). Concert organised in cooperation with the EMBASSY OF THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN
Programme: Original compositions by A. Alcaraz and improvisations

THURSDAY, JULY 21

THE ROAD TO NAPLES
A colourful palette of Neapolitan songs
19:00 @ St. Catherine’s Church (30 Vilniaus St., Vilnius)
Performers: LIESELOT DE WILDE (soprano, Belgium), PETER VERHELST (guitar, Belgium), CHRIS RUEBENS (guitar), TADAS DESUKAS (violin, mandolin)
Programme: Old Neapolitan songs

SATURDAY, JULY 23
TRUE ROMANTICS
A piano recital
21:00 @ St. Catherine’s Church (30 Vilniaus St., Vilnius)
Concert organised in cooperation with the MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH CHARITY AND SUPPORT FOUNDATION, SIMONA ZAJANCAUSKAITE (piano)
Programme: F. Schubert, P. Hindemith, A. Scriabin, F. Liszt

TUESDAY, JULY 26

SACRED MUSIC HOURS

19:00 @ St. Casimir’s Church (34 Didzioji St., Vilnius)
ALEXANDER GORIN (organ, Israel), Programme: J. S. Bach, F. Mendelssohn

WEDNESDAY, JULY 27

BACH IN ME
19:00 @ St. Catherine’s Church (30 Vilniaus St., Vilnius)
LUCA CIARLA (violin, effect pedals, Italy)
Violin improvisations and Baroque masterpieces
Concert organised in co-operation with the ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE IN VILNIUS
Programme: J. S. Bach. L. Ciarla, H. Villa-Lobos, A. Piazzolla