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Latvian composer (1863-1948)
- piano, organ
- symphony
- Russian Empire, Latvia
- pianist, conductor, composer, university teacher, music critic
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2021-11-16 17:05:26
Counter-tenor Hugh Cutting wins the 2021 Kathleen Ferrier Awards
2021 Kathleen Ferrier Awards winners: Helen Charlston, Hugh Cutting, Laura Perešivana - (Photo Emma Brown Photography At a ceremony on Sunday night (14 November) the counter-tenor Hugh Cutting was announced as winner of the 66th Kathleen Ferrier Awards, the first counter-tenor to do so. The semi-finals and finals of this year's awards took place at Henry Wood Hall in front of a jury that included baritone Sir Thomas Allen, mezzo-soprano Alice Coote, soprano Valerie Masterson, tenor Ian Partridge and pianist James Baillieu. Hugh Cutting is a member of the Royal College of Music International Opera Studio, we heard him last year in Purcell with the English Concert [see my review], and he has been recording Purcell's odes with the King's Consort [see my review]. He was accompanied by George Ireland, and sang an aria from Handel's Agrippina, d'Indy Magrigal, two of Dvorak's Biblical Songs, an extract from George Benjamin's […]
2021-11-16 11:07:24
Counter-tenor Hugh Cutting wins the 2021 Kathleen Ferrier Awards
2021 Kathleen Ferrier Awards winners: Helen Charlston, Hugh Cutting, Laura Perešivana - (Photo Emma Brown Photography At a ceremony on Sunday night (14 November) the counter-tenor Hugh Cutting was announced as winner of the 66th Kathleen Ferrier Awards, the first counter-tenor to do so. The semi-finals and finals of this year's awards took place at Henry Wood Hall in front of a jury that included baritone Sir Thomas Allen, mezzo-soprano Alice Coote, soprano Valerie Masterson, tenor Ian Partridge and pianist James Baillieu. Hugh Cutting is a member of the Royal College of Music International Opera Studio, we heard him last year in Purcell with the English Concert [see my review], and he has been recording Purcell's odes with the King's Consort [see my review]. He was accompanied by George Ireland, and sang an aria from Handel's Agrippina, d'Indy Magrigal, two of Dvorak's Biblical Songs, an extract from George Benjamin's […]
2021-04-17 09:09:40
When 2020 forced the cancellation of the first Riga Jurmala Academy in Latvia, it moved its programme of masterclasses on-line: I find out more from director Toms Ostrovskis
Toms Ostrovskis and student during Riga Jurmala Academy masterclass with Leif Ove Andsnes (Photo Reinis Oliņš) When the pandemic cancelled the 2020 edition of the Riga Jurmala Music Festival in Latvia, it would have seemed to be the end of its sister event, the Riga-Jurmala Academy, academy's director Toms Ostrovskis and his team had other ideas. The Riga Jurmala Academy is a programme of masterclasses organised under the auspices of the Riga Jurmala Music Festival in collaboration with the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, in Riga, Latvia. The festival made its auspicious debut in 2019, bringing leading symphony orchestras and conductors to Riga and Jurmala and presenting a programme of symphonic concerts, chamber music and solo recitals. Its 2020 programme included the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra with their new artistic director Lahav Shani, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Manfred Honeck, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic […]
2017-07-21 04:05:27
Wednesday, July 26, is the birthday of Jazeps Vitols: composer, critic, educator, the father of Latvian classical music — and an example of how political histories retroactively affect fame. Vitols was born in 1863, when Latvia, on the banks of the ...
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