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Concert programmes

Selected concerts, premieres, festivals and tours from the duo’s archive, 2003–2009. Dates are given as month.day.

Antra and Normunds Viksne rehearsing at the piano
From the duo’s archive

2009

03.04

Riga Latvian Society, Golden Hall

Tālivaldis Ķeniņš programme

2008

12.26 · 12.30

Sydney, Australia

Latvian Cultural Days

12.21

Mazsalaca

Festival European Christmas

10.01

Riga Latvian Society, Golden Hall

Selga Mence programme

09.19

Jelgava District Council Hall

Autumn Chamber Music Festival — programme “Reflections”

2007

01.09 · 02.16

Latvian Composers Union · J. Vītols Latvian Academy of Music

  • C. GriffinFrom the Faraway Nearby

02.13

Tartu University, Estonia

International festival FEsTaRi

Music by A. Vecumnieks and A. Durand

02.09

Riga Latvian Society, Golden Hall

No Medina lidz mediniem

Music by A. Semaško and T. Ķeniņš

02.10

Small Guild Hall, Riga

No Medina lidz mediniem

  • A. VecumnieksDaudz Happy — for chamber orchestra and piano four handsworld premiere

03.16

Riga United Methodist Church, Slokas 6

Music by F. Poulenc, A. Semaško and A. Vecumnieks

04.04

Riga Latvian Society, Golden Hall

Latvian Folk Songs Suite

04.11

Portraits Gallery

Music by D. Aperāne

05.03

J. Vītols Latvian Academy of Music

Concert programme “20 & 200”

Music by N. Carlston, W. A. Mozart, F. Schubert, J. Brahms, S. Rachmaninoff, C. Debussy and F. Poulenc

09.16

Riga · Valmiera

Concert programme “War and Peace”

Music by J. Ābols, C. Griffin and A. Pärt

2006

08.16 · 10.28

Latvian Composers Union · Riga Latvian Society, Great Hall

  • H. MednisThree Young Sisters (suite)

11.10–12

Mažeikiai · Klaipėda · Vilnius (Lithuania)

Grand Parade of Musicians

  • J. ĀbolsTwo movements from Crusade Music
  • R. JermaksLatvian Folk Songs
  • A. BenjaminFrom San Domingo
  • A. DvořákLegends

11.26 · 12.07

Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart · The Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, Poland

Concert programme “Black & White Baltic”

  • J. KarlsonsPrelude & Fugue in G
  • A. PärtHymn to a Great City
  • T. ĶeniņšSonata
  • A. VecumnieksQuasi chorali
  • A. HirvVikerkaar
  • V. BarkauskasWinter 1982
  • R. KalsonsMosaic

03.01

Latvian National Museum of Art

  • W. A. MozartSonata B Dur
  • R. SchumannBilder aus Osten
  • V. BarkauskasWinter 1982
  • VariousLatvian Folk Songs Suite — arranged by composers A. Kalniņš, H. Ore, R. Jermaks, R. Kalsons, A. Vecumnieks and L. Celma

2005

02.06

Riga St. Peter’s Church

  • A. VecumnieksDiatonic Sonata for piano three hands

05.15

Riga Latvian Society, Golden Hall

  • C. GriffinDo Not Go Gentle
  • F. SchubertFantasy f moll, D 940
  • A. BenjaminTwo Jamaican Street Songs · From San Domingo
  • S. MenceSongs for Two Pianos IIworld premiere

2004

September

Riga · Tukums · Roja · Gulbene

International festival “September Chamber Music Days”

  • A. DvořákLegends, Op. 59
  • A. KalniņšTen Latvian Folk Songs
  • A. CoplandRodeo
  • D. ShostakovichConcertino

2003.02.13 · 2004.01.06

Wagner Hall, Riga · Jūrmala

Portraits Gallery

  • Juris KarlsonsPrelude and Fugue in aworld premiere
    Prelude and Fugue in cis
    Country Suite

07.07–20

Riga · Ogre

10th International Music Camp and Masterclasses

  • C. GriffinDo Not Go Gentlefirst premiere in Latvia
  • D. P. PernaWhiskey Sour Waltzworld premiere
  • S. MenceBells Songworld premiere
  • D. AperāneAllegheny Air and Dance
  • I. MežaraupsDeux Postludes après Chopin

2003

09.23

Wagner Hall, Riga

International festival “September Chamber Music Days” — Premiere

Piano duo Antra & Normunds Viksne with Edgars Saksons, percussion

  • T. TakemitsuRain Tree
  • J. AdamsHallelujah Junction
  • D. AperāneFields
  • A. Engelmanis13 Intraversions
  • P. VasksMusic for Two Pianos
  • Ē. EšenvaldsSong of the Star

11.01–16

USA tour — New York · Boston · Chicago · Los Angeles · Washington DC

  • F. SchubertVariations B Dur · Allegro moderato and Andante
  • A. VecumnieksQuasi Chorali
  • R. JermaksIn Blue
  • S. BarberBallet Suite “Souvenirs”, Op. 28
  • P. VasksMusic for Two Pianos
  • J. AdamsHallelujah Junction

Invitations

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For concert bookings, festival programmes and collaborations — write to Antra and Normunds.