Concerts of the South Kurzeme Festival "Rimbenieks"

The South Kurzeme Festival "Rimbenieks", which began in 2021, is an event that become a beautiful tradition and an expected summer cultural stop for the residents of the region and also for guests from near and far from other parts of Latvia.

From August 2 to 16, the musicians of the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra will once again go on a musical journey through the South Kurzeme region, discovering for themselves and others new and beautiful places where we can all meet in music. Concerts will take place in Grobiņa, Bārta, Ziemupe, Aizpute, Gavieze, Medze, Vaiņode and Kazdanga, and will offer a wide musical program - from baroque to contemporary compositions.

“August is "Rimbenieks" month for us. The month when we meet our listeners in the most beautiful churches, cultural centers, and parks of the South Kurzeme region, playing the music we love with the musicians we love. August is the month of love for us,” says Uldis Lipskis, the director of the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, who once conceived the idea of ​​the South Kurzeme festival “Rimbenieks”.

Unlike previous years, this time the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra concert conducted by Guntis Kuzma at the Kazdanga Culture House will no longer be the opening of the festival, but rather the closing. At the culmination of the festival, on August 16, listeners will have the opportunity to hear Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra, as well as one of the most beautiful pearls of Latvian symphonic music – Emīls Dārziņš's Melancholic Waltz.

At the opening of the festival “Rimbenieks”, on August 2nd at the Grobiņa Evangelical Lutheran Church, a meeting with the greatest composers of the Baroque era – Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, Arcangelo Corelli and George Frideric Telemann is expected. The works of the great composers will be interpreted by the ensemble “Sonore Antiqua”, already well-known to the audience, which will be joined by soprano Gunta Gelgote.

This year, the audience at the “Rimbenieks” festival will be delighted by ensembles already known from previous years – the Bertschy Quartet, the Liepāja Horn Quartet, – as well as specially invited friends and associates of the musicians of the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra. For example, soprano Katrīna Paula Felsberga, the string quartet “Nōna” and many other artists.

As usual, the festival atmosphere is created not only by the musicians and diverse programs, but also by the concert venues, which give each evening its own unique character.

All the festival concerts are FREE OF CHARGE!

The festival program can be viewed HERE.