The festival is traditionally held in Liepaja's Holy Trinity Cathedral, where the world's largest, non-reconstructed mechanical pipe organ with 131 stops, 4 manuals and more than 7000 pipes is located.
Two of the seven concerts will be held in the town of Kuldiga, while the rest will take place in Liepāja.
The young and talented Japanese musician Mari Fukumoto will be playing the opening concert, featuring German baroque and romanticism in Liepāja's Holy Trinity Cathedral.
Charles Gounod's St. Cecilia Mass will be played on the afternoon of September 20 by Vidas Pinkevicius, while Janis Pelse will entertain younger audiences together with violinist Dzintars Beitans and the Liepaja Traveling Puppet Theater with a special performance for the festival by Peteris Plakidis (music) and Peteris Trups (libretto, directing).
While on September 23, Ilze Reine and Aigars Reinis will perform classic organ music from the world and Latvia, along with a piece from the up-and-coming composer Jekabs Jancevskis.
While the same concert, along with the children's concert will be held on September 24 in two churches of Kuldiga.
The festival will be closed with compositions from J. S. Bach and modern Latvian composers, as performed by Kristine Adamaite (organ), Artis Simanis (alto saxophone) and Jolanta Strikaite (soprano).
Tickets are available at www.bilesuparadize.lv - search for "ērģeles" and you should be able to find what interests you in the drop-down menu.
Here's a program of the festival in Latvian. You should be able to see the exact dates and times for each concert we've just described.
