Event

Uģis Prauliņš Jubilee Concert

Uģis Prauliņš has his own language of music, and that is not true of everyone.  Uģis’ language powerfully reflects influences from folk music and rock music, offering an unusual meeting between paganism and Christianity and revealing the militancy of the Middle Ages, the lightness of the Baroque, and the delight that is part of Romanticism.  “Music and love explain everything.  We must always seek them out and polish them, because no truth is permanent.  The things that touch us remain with us, and that is exactly the kind of music that I try to compose,” says the composer, who has been nominated for a Grammy Award and will celebrate his 60th birthday on June 17.  The celebration of the Rīga Festival will feature a new opus by Prauliņš, Fantasy No 2 for Organ, which is dedicated to the sensitive organist Kristīne Adamaite, as well as the capacious Easter oratory Te Deum Laudamus.  As was the case with its premiere in 2011, Mārtiņš Klišāns will conduct the performance.  The performers will include the Rīga Dome Boys’ Choir and, this time, Sinfonietta Rīga, Inga Šļubovska-Kancēviča with her pure soprano, and Kalvis Kalniņš with his silky baritone.

Programme

Uģis Prauliņš (b 1957) Te Deum Laudamus
Fantasia No. 2 for Organ (premiere)

Participants

Inga Šlubovska Kancēviča, soprano
Kalvis Kalniņš, baritone
Kristīne Adamaite, organ
Rīga Cathedral Boys Choir
Sinfonietta Rīga orchestra
Conductor Mārtiņš Klišāns