Baltic countries
THE ORGANIZERS OF THE FESTIVAL:
Jüri-Ruut KANGUR
Vice-President Eurochestries International & Director of the Baltic States Festival
Liina NIGU
General manager of the festival
Normunds DREGIS
President of the Association of Latvian Orchestras, member of the Board of Directors of the European Federation of Orchestras (Latvia)
Arturas ALENSKAS
Director of the “Simfukai” Symphony Orchestra of the Vilnius B. Dvarionas Music School (Lithuania)
eofed.president@gmail.com • liina.nigu@gmail.com • 372 56698005
THE FESTIVALS
The Eurochestries Baltic Youth Symphony Orchestras Festival is an event intended for symphony orchestras and chamber music of young amateur musicians from the Baltic countries (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) as well as a guest orchestra from France. For 6 days we are waiting for the participation of 36 orchestras.
The main objective of the festival is to give young people aged 15 to 25 the opportunity to
perform at an international festival, listen to each other's performances, to meet and spend time with young people and amateur musicians from other countries but also to gain international experiences and cooperation opportunities in the future.
THE PARTICIPANTS / PERFORMERS
The Eurochestries Baltic States Festival and concerts will take place in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
Invited :
36 orchestras with almost 1500 participants, 4 orchestras from Lithuania, 1 from France, 1 international orchestra, 16 from Latvia and 14 from Estonia ⇩
- INTERNATIONAL ORCHESTRA:
- Baltic Youth Symphony Orchestra
- GUEST ORCHESTRA:
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine Youth Symphony Orchestra (France)
- Guest musician from the Kyiv Academy of Music (Ukraine).
- ESTONIAN ORCHESTRAS:
- Viimsi Music School String Orchestra
- Eller Sinfonietta of Tartu Heino Eller Music School
- Viljandi Youth Symphony Orchestra
- Harjumaa County String Orchestra
- Võru Music School Symphony Orchestra
- Livonian Youth Orchestra
- Nõmme Music School Symphony Orchestra
- Põltsamaa Music School Chamber Orchestra
- String Orchestra of the First Music School of Tartu
- String Orchestra of the Põlva Music School
- Tallinn Music School Symphony Orchestra
- Lasnamäe Music School Symphony Orchestra
- Rapla Music School Symphony Orchestra
- Tartu University Symphony Orchestra
- LITHUANIAN ORCHESTRAS:
- Youth Symphony Orchestra “Svajone” of the Alytus Music School
- Youth Symphony Orchestra "Simfukai" of the Balys Dvarionas Music School of Vilnius
- Symphony Orchestra of the Stasys Šimkus Conservatory in Klaipeda
- Youth Symphony Orchestra of Karoliniškes Music School of Vilnius
- LATVIAN ORCHESTRAS:
- Symphony Orchestra of National School of Arts Emīls Dārziņs Riga Music School
- Jazeps Medinš Riga First Music School Chamber Orchestra "Armonico"
- Jazeps Medinš Riga First Music School Symphony Orchestra
- Youth Symphony Orchestra "Draugi" of the Baldone Cultural Center and the Vecumnieki District School of Music and Art
- Jugla Music School Symphony Orchestra
- Kekava District Youth Symphony Orchestra
- Marupe School of Music and Art Symphony Orchestra
- Garkalne Primary School of Arts and General Education Chamber Orchestra
- Sēja School of Music and Art Chamber Orchestra
- Ziemelkurzeme Chamber Orchestra
- Ventspils Music High School String Orchestra
- Stanislavs Broks Daugavpils Music High School Chamber Orchestra
- Krimulda and Limbaži Youth Symphony Orchestra
- Janis Norvilis Madona Music School Chamber Orchestra
- Arvids Žilinskis Jēkabpils Music School Chamber Orchestra
- Pardaugava School of Music and Art Symphony Orchestra
CONCERT PROGRAMMING:
LITHUANIA:
- April 13 at 6:30 p.m. at the Alytus Cultural Center, opening concert
- April 14 at 4:00 p.m. in the concert hall of the Balys Dvarionas Music School of Vilnius
LATVIA:
- April 16 at 2:00 p.m. at Marupe School of Music and Art
- April 16 at 7:00 p.m. at the Riga Palace of Culture ZIEMEĻBLĀZMA, Great Hall
ESTONIA:
- April 17 at 12:30 p.m. in the Vanemuise concert hall in Tartu
- April 17 at 3:00 p.m. at the Heino Elleri Music School in Tartu, in the Tubin Hall
- April 17 at 5:00 p.m. at the Valga Cultural Center
- April 17 at 5:30 p.m. in the Vanemuise concert hall in Tartu, final concert and festival ceremony
- April 17 at 7:00 p.m. at the Võru cultural center “Kannel”.
- April 18 at 6:00 p.m. at St Paul's Church in Tartu
- April 18 at 6:00 p.m. at the Põlva Cultural Center
- April 18 at 6:00 p.m. at the Viljandi Folklore Center