Latvian Composers’ Union festival “Latvian New Music Days 2025” will take place in Riga and Ropazi from May 7 to May 11
Featuring numerous premieres and musical surprises, the beginning of May will mark the annual festival “Latvian New Music Days” organized by the Latvian Composers’ Union.
Art can be a mirror that reveals the face of time, but it can also
be a force that changes reality. What is a composer - an observer or a
visionary? A bearer of a message or a change agent himself?
This
year, the Latvian New Music Days 2025 are dedicated to artists as
visionaries - those who have used sound to seek answers to fundamental
questions about society, culture and the inner human world. Five
concerts - four important figures who dared to transform reality in
their own time.Their ideas are echoed today in new works in which Latvian composers, in dialogue with the past, create music for the future. Is it possible to listen to an idea? What do thoughts that have changed the world sound like?
The festival highlights the legacy of 20th century Latvian intellectuals - thinkers who dedicated their lives to questions about the meaning of art and its relationship to society. They were composers, poets, philosophers, educators, reformers - personalities who were voices of the age, but also voices against the age.
From poetry to synthesizers, from choir to surround sound, each concert is a unique musical space that allows these thoughts to come alive in the contemporary soundscape. In the final concert, where sound itself becomes the thinker, the question comes to a crossroads: if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?
Latvian New Music Days 2025 - where visions of the past meet the sound of the future!
CONCERTS:
May 7th at 7 p.m. at the Riga Latvian Society House – Trio Tresensus & Erica Synths
May 8th at 7 p.m. at the Grand Hall of the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music – Piano Quartet QUADRA
May 9th at 7 p.m. at the Great Hall of the University of Latvia – Latvian Radio Choir
May 10th at 7 p.m. at the Ziedona Hall of the National Library of Latvia – Sinfonietta Rīga
May 11th at 1 p.m. at the Sound Manor 360 in Ropazi – Surround Sound Concert
Concert tickets available at “Biļešu Paradīze” ticket offices and www.bilesuparadize.lv
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festival is supported by the State Culture Capital Foundation, Riga City Council and Latvijas Radio 3 “Klasika”