The Liepāja concert hall Lielais dzintars and the Centre of Performing Arts Jūras vārti will jointly host the International Classical Music Festival SENSUS, which will gather together more than 80 musicians from the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from Amsterdam and other leading European and Latvian Symphony Orchestra musicians in Latvia for the first time.
Here is a sample from a previous year.
2013. gadā Vineta Sareika un Gunars Upatnieks gatavojas Dž. Botezīni "Gran duo concertante" atskaņošanai #ThrowbackThursday pic.twitter.com/z6MSjmDHcN
— Festivals SENSUS (@FestivalsSENSUS) May 25, 2017
Luiz Felipe Coelho, Marlene Ito, Joaquín Riquelme García, Sennu Laine, Gunārs Upatnieks, Anete Toča, Fabrice Millischer, Alexandre Baty, Egils Upatnieks, Guntis Kuzma, Gustavo Núñez, Agnese Egliņa and others are among the permormers. The festival will feature two symphonic music concerts, conducted by Karel Mark Chichon.
The festival program is planning to incorporate a number of chamber and symphonic music concerts, master classes for music students, as well as symphonic music concerts for children and parents with family-friendly ticket prices.
Works by Mozart, Schubert, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Poulenc are among those being performed.
More information can be found at the official festival website.
