The Riga Jurmala Music Festival, an international classical music festival whose opening concerts are set to take place on the weekend of July 16 to 18, has announced that music students from all three Baltic states will have the opportunity to attend in-person masterclasses with guest artists performing at the festival this summer. The first masterclasses will take place already on July 17 at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music with the distinguished Hungarian pianist Sir András Schiff. Three young pianists will take part in the masterclasses: Kasparas Mikužis (Lithuania), Pāvels Laganovskis (Latvia) and Tähe-Lee Liiv (Estonia).
The international online Digital Transformation in Culture conference took place today, July 6th, with the participation of a range of culture professionals from world-renowned organisations and projects.
To symbolically launch the international Riga Jurmala classical music festival, the first Riga Jurmala Musical Soirées were held on July 2nd and 3rd in the square opposite the Latvian National Opera.
On 2 July 2021, the Riga Jurmala Music Festival has announced that musicians from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Concertgebouworkest, the Oslo Philharomonic Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra will come together to honour the great Latvian conductor Mariss Jansons. Under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner, the Mariss Jansons Festival Orchestra will debut at this year’s Riga Jurmala Music Festival’s opening weekend (16 – 18 July) in lieu of the previously announced Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, which withdrew due to COVID-19-related circumstances. The Festival has further announced modified admission procedures for the first weekend, resulting in markedly increased capacities.
To launch the international “Riga Jurmala” classical music festival, the first two Musical Soirées of this summer will take place on the 2nd and 3rd of July in the square opposite the Latvian National Opera. In partnership with Radio 3 “Klasika”, visitors of those and other upcoming events that will take place in various Riga’s parks and on the beach in Jurmala, will be able to listen to recordings by various world-famous orchestras and artists from this year’s festival concert programme.
One of the most anticipated summer destinations for classical music lovers, the Riga Jurmala Music Festival, returns in less than a month with the first weekend set to take place between July 16th and 18th in the Baltic beachside resort Jurmala.
One of the world’s leading classical music festivals, the Riga Jurmala Music Festival, today announced an online conference on Digital Transformation in Culture to take place on July 6th from 08.00 - 12.30. The conference will explore the timely subject of digital transformation in the cultural sphere. Leading professionals from world-renowned cultural organisations, festivals, orchestras among others will share their experiences on how using digital tools are transforming their modus operandi and rethinking content creation in performing and visual arts.
Concerts for the second week of the Riga Jurmala Music Festival planned to take place at the Latvian National Opera in Riga will instead take place at the Dzintari Concert Hall in Jurmala, report the festival’s organisers. On August 6th and 7th, we will see the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yuri Temirkanov on the semi-open-air stage at this historic venue in the Baltic beachside resort. The change in venue is primarily motivated by a concern for the health and safety of the artists, audience and team, as well as ensuring the best chances that the concerts can take place with the least restrictions possible.
Balticovo has become one of the Riga Jurmala Festival’s partners for the 2021 season, giving significant support to the operations of the festival and helping to put on a world-class artistic programme.
The online Riga Jurmala Academy masterclasses scheduled for June will be lead by world-famous soprano Olga Peretyatko and Royal Concertgebouworkest bassoonist Simon Van Holen. At the request of the artist, the masterclass with Yefim Bronfman scheduled for today has been postponed indefinitely.
