On May 10 at 19:00, Ola Foundation cultural space will host Trio Fabel - a trio of stars of Latvian music - Anna Gāgane (clarinet), Kristaps Bergs (cello), and Linda Leine (piano), who will perform the concert ONE EVENING. TWO ERAS. The concert and academic lives of these internationally acclaimed young musicians unfold intensely across various European countries, making it especially delightful that they have found time to reunite in their homeland and delight audiences with a special concert in the Ola Foundation music salon.
The concert program will span two different eras: Romanticism will be represented by Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, and Swiss composer Paul Juon, while the evening's special event will be the world premiere of composer Oskars Herliņš's new work Three sci-fi stories, written especially for Trio Fabel and revealing the soundscape of our contemporary era to the audience.
The evening will feature Ludwig van Beethoven's Trio for clarinet, cello, and piano, a work from the composer's youth that is considered a galant piece, whose finale contains a cheerful melody that could often be heard being sung in the streets at night at that time. This is the origin of the work's unofficial title, Gassenhauer Trio, or street song. Johannes Brahms's Romantic masterpiece will, in his characteristic manner, sweep the audience into a turbulent whirlpool of emotions. Swiss composer Paul Juon's Miniatures will lead listeners into poignantly elegiac moods, offer them the chance to feel a passionate dance and plunge into a whirlwind of humor, before finally allowing them to sink into a gentle haze of dreams.
The evening's special event will be the premiere of composer Oskars Herliņš's new work, written especially for Trio Fabel. The cycle Three sci-fi stories consists of three contrasting movements: News For Nobody, The Abyss of The Dark Planes, and Toroid of Light.
Trio Fabel has performed in concert halls in Latvia, Germany, and Italy, as well as at the prestigious Usedomer Festival in Germany.
The concert will be in two parts.
Guests are warmly invited to arrive from 18:15 for a glass of welcome wine and a tour of the current exhibitions.
BIO
Clarinetist Anna Gāgane received the Great Music Prize in the Young Musician category, studied at the Lübeck Academy of Music, and completed two master's degrees at the Basel Academy of Music. Anna has achieved success in numerous international competitions, becoming a two-time laureate and recipient of a special prize at the Andrejs Jurjāns International Woodwind Competition. She received a Swiss government excellence scholarship and regularly performs in Latvia, Germany, Switzerland, and elsewhere.
Pianist Linda Leine continued her education in Hamburg, Lübeck, and Rostock after studying in Latvia, and has lived and performed in Germany since 2010. With her debut album "Schubert-Stravinsky-Vasks", recorded as a piano duo with Darja Maršiņina, she was nominated for the prestigious Opus Klassik Award in Germany in two categories in 2019. The duo has performed in concert halls in Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, and the United States, and was also invited to the Schubertiade in Austria to participate in masterclasses led by piano virtuoso András Schiff. Performing with singer Pia Davila, she won 3rd place at the international competition Francis Schubert and Contemporary Music in Graz, Austria, in 2015, and 1st place at the Forbidden Music competition in Schwerin, Germany, in 2016. In 2022, she recorded Georgs Pelēcis's double album “Georgs Pelēcis. Seasons”, released by the record label Skani.
Kristaps Bergs was admitted to the prestigious University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2006. He has performed in many of the world's most prestigious concert halls - Carnegie Hall in New York, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Vienna's Musikverein, Vienna's Konzerthaus, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, the Royal Albert Hall in London, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. He has collaborated with such outstanding artists as Andris Nelsons, Heinrich Schiff, Ida Haendel, Reinhard Latzko, Natalia Prišipenko, Pēteris Vasks, Giovanni Sollima, Helmut Lachenmann, and others. Since September 2016, Kristaps has served as principal cellist of the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra. Kristaps Bergs was nominated for the Great Music Prize for an outstanding interpretation of Witold Lutosławski's Cello Concerto, performed with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and conductor Kristīne Poska.
