\n●Duration is 95 mins with 20 mins intermission.
\n\n●Suitable for age 7+.
\n\n●Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
\n\n●The 1st level entrance of the venue (Playhouse/Concert Hall) is equipped with stairs.
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\n\nCesar FRANCK: Pièce héroïque in B-flat minor, M. 37
\nLouis VIERNE: Symphony No. 3 in F-sharp minor, Op. 28
\nCharles-Marie WIDOR: Symphony No. 5 in F minor, Op. 42/1
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Iveta APKALNA
\n\nLatvian organist Iveta Apkalna is considered one of the leading instrumentalists in the world. Since 2017 she has served as the titular organist of the Klais organ at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany. The January 2017 opening offerd two world premieres: Wolfgang Rihm’s Triptychon und Spruch in memoriam Hans Henny Jahnn with Thomas Hengelbrock and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Jörg Widmann’s ARCHE with Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg. Most recently, she has released her new CD “Light & Dark”, the first solo album recorded on the Klais organ at the Elbphilharmonie, produced by the label Berlin Classics.
\n\nIveta Apkalna has earned international recognition for honours and competitions. In March 2018 she received the “Latvian Grand Music Award”, the most prestigious award in music in Latvia, in the categories “Musician of the Year” and “Concert of the Year”. Furthermore, she was appointed cultural ambassador of Latvia by receiving the “Excellence Award in Culture 2015” from the Latvian Ministry of Culture. Iveta Apkalna became the first organist to receive the title of “Best Performing Artist” award at the 2005 ECHO Klassik.
\n\nShe is dedicated to contemporary music and performs works of Naji Hakim, Ēriks Ešenvalds, Arturs Maskats or Thierry Escaich. Together with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam she presented the world premiere of “Multiversum”, a commissioned composition of Péter Eötvös, on an extensive Europe tour in Autumn 2017. Together with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Péter Eötvös, she will perform this work again in February 2019 at the Southbank Centre in London. Further world premieres will follow in the near future with works by Pascal Dusapin, Philipp Glass and Pēteris Vasks.
\n\nBorn in Rēzekne, Latvia, Iveta has made it her mission to bring the splendour of organ music beyond church walls and into concert halls. She currently lives in Berlin and in Riga.
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