Riga Great Guild Hall
The remarkable choice and order of concert repertoire of Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra is usually the work of its Artistic Director - Gidon Kremer. The first half of the Autumn Chamber Music Festival will honor Johann Sebastian Bach on his 325^th birthday. With great interest we look forward to the performance of the young pianist Andrejs Osokins whose appearances have mainly featured romantic and contemporary repertoire. This time his baroque side will be evident in the performance of Bach's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in F minor BWV 1056. The leader of the orchestra will turn into soloist in performance of Giya Kancheli's opus Bridges to Bach and will congratulate the famous Georgian composer on his 75^th birthday. The first half will of the concert will end with Capriccio after Bach, composed by Yevgeny Sharlat, who studied at Moscow State Conservatoire and since 1994 lives in USA and teaches composition at Texas University in Austin.

Spīķeri Concert Hall

Xylem Trio has earned audience's appreciation by their tastefully attractive, simple, cordial and at the same time splendidly virtuosic musicianship. Brothers Petrauski and Rihards Zaļupe have developed a perfect ensemble and an excellent sense of each other. 

Spīķeri Concert Hall

Liene Circene is amongst the most notable individuals in the Latvian world of pianism - programmes tailored by Liene are attractively conceptualistic, she knows how to decipher the content of music and how to relate its meaning to the audience in a passionate form. Liene is a prizewinner of several international competitions. Her recital geography includes European countries, Canada, USA, Russia and Ukraine. Liene is also eagerly expected in Island. She was the recipient of the Latvian Great Music Award 1994 for the best debut of the year. Her hobby is her work - both on stage and with her students. Liene teaches at Sigulda Music School. In 2009 she attended courses in Karl Orff basic musicianship and dance teaching at MozarteumInternationalSummerAcademy in Salzburg.

Spīķeri Concert Hall

Flute, harp and viola is a somewhat mysterious and unorthodox combination of instruments that some academic composers of the 20^th century have found attractive enough to compose for - the softest of the wind instruments, the most colorful of the plucked instruments and the darkest of the strings.

Spīķeri Concert Hall

The musical path of Latvian young percussionist Guntars Freibergs has been very successful, beginning with an invitation to study with the legendary Mark Pekarsky and leading to many international victories. Although Guntars has already performed in Riga on several occasions (at St.Peter's church, Great Guild Hall, Small Guild Hall, Riga Latvian Society House, Ave Sol concert hall, etc.), this concert is his first full-scale recital in the capital city of Latvia. Guntars has prepared a programme that will fully reveal the multitude of his percussion performance skills to the audience.

Spīķeri Concert Hall

Laura, Silva, Tiila and Ulla - these signatures decorate the webpage of Tempera string quartet, urging not to miss their upcoming concerts. Residents and guests of Riga will not have to travel far to enjoy their performance as they will give their first concert in Latvia on the 30 ^th of September at Spīķeri Concert Hall.

Small Guild Hall

Giya Kancheli has great many followers in the circle of admirers of the so-called new simplicity. Sudden changes in dynamics, longingly beautiful melodic lines and strive for resigned epiphanies are characteristic to Kancheli's music. "Music, like life itself, is inconceivable without romanticism. Romanticism is a high dream of the past, present, and future - a force of invincible beauty which towers above, and conquers, the forces of ignorance, bigotry, violence, and evil," says the composer.

Riga Great Guild Hall

This year the Autumn Chamber Music Festival will conclude with symphonic grandeur and the Latvian premiere of the new opus by Pēteris Vasks - we will have an opportunity to enjoy his Flute Concerto, recently performed in Germany and USA. Pēteris Vasks composed and dedicated the piece to Michael Faust, the German flutist that could be familiar to the audience from his master-classes at Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music and his previous performance with Sinfonietta Rīga. For considerable time Faust wanted to premiere a piece by Pēteris Vasks and his dream came true - on January 23, 2009 at Cologne Philharmonic Hall together with Cologne West German Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Semyon Bychkov he was the first to perform the solo part of Vasks's latest concerto (2007-2008). In foreign publications we read that the principal themes of the piece are characteristic to Vasks: ethnic motives and nature. The melodic first and third movements frame the second one - a vigorous and virtuosic burlesque.