First Baltic jazz festival “Skiun jazz”

From August 28 to August 31, the first Baltic jazz festival “Skiun jazz” will be held at THE Rēzekne District, which aims to promote interest in jazz music, encourage the co-operation of emerging and existing jazz musicians, as well as masters, Jem sessions and concerts, with the participation of jazz musicians from all Baltic States, living jazz musicians in Latgale, the special Lūznavas estate complex environment.
The idea of a jazz festival AT Lūznavas in Manor began with a feeling of change – in September 2018, a jazz music division was formed in the High School of Rēzekne of Rēzekne, which was managed by jazz musician, composer Tom Lipsky. He also had the idea of creating a jazz festival at Luznava when he started his work in Latgale, taking the artistic leadership of the future festival. In the summer of 2018, AT THE END OF the Lūznavas “Kulturys škiuni”, there was a jazz festival concert “jazz” in two concert programmes. Presensation, highlighting the time and place of the festival. Unfortunately, in the autumn, Tom went prematurely, but by honouring his work and sending the festival to Tom Lipsk's memory, the first Baltic jazz festival “Skiun jazz”, which is “continuation!”, will be held at Lūznavas Manor from August 28 to August 31. The follow-up to the ideas of Tom, the continuation of jazz music, continued to transfer the knowledge of the experienced jazz musicians to the young. The festival's ideas and the beginning of the festival are determined by the artistic leader of the festival, the well-known trombonist Lauris Ainvs.
One of the festival's goals is to promote the growth and education of the emerging jazz musicians, so the festival will begin with the jazz masters, which have been invited by 24 emerging musicians in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Professional experience in musicians will be obtained in Vita Rusaitytes (LT) vocal class, Skirmanta Sasnauska (LT) in the class of thrombone and other puffed instruments, Indriatic Veitner (LV) in the saxophone class, Siim Aimla (EE) in saxophone class, Mikkel Padar (EE) in contrabasa class, Arkadia Gotesman (LT) in sitaminstrument class and Madara Kalniņa (LV) in the class of keyboard instruments.
Jazz music events in Luznava will be invited to survive. The festival will be started by the collaboration of jazz musicians in masterpieces, the results of which can be enjoyed every evening at Jem sessions, and a number of public festival concerts will be held on 30 and 31 August, with all the leaders of the jazz masterboard playing in the final concert with Rezekne bigger.
Programme of public events of the festival “Škiun jazz”:
August 28 and August 29
20.00 Student and masterclass students Jem session, entrance free
The festival teachers and masters students attend Jem sessions every evening. “Shadow jazz” masters are given by Vita Rausaityte (LT, vokal), Skirbels Saskatska (LT, blowing instruments), Indriatic Weightner (LV, blowing instruments), Madars Kalniņš (LV, keyboard instruments), Siim Aimla (EE, blowing instruments), Ara Yaralyan (EE, contrabass), Arkady Gotesman (LT, sitamines), but more than 20 young and already experienced musicians from all Baltic States participate.
30 August
18.00 Etno + jazz. JVLMA etnojazza project, entrance fee 3.00 €
The project “Etno + jazz” originally appeared as a co-operation project of two Jasepa willow music academics — jazz and ethnousicology — a student collaboration project for the Academy festival “decibels”. Its goal is to create a concert program that combines jazz and People's music elements. For the fifth consecutive year, this project is one of the most anticipated and most successful events in THE JVLMA school year, and has also become one of the main events of the annual festival “decibels”. The project is organized BY JVLMA asoc. prof. Indriatic Weitner and lecturer Zane Smite. Each year, the project is also given a “theme” – a direction to help students in the creative process. This year, this topic was “archive.” Students had to study and use the archive of two archives, the Latvian folklore repository, and the garamantas.lv records archive audio .lndb.lv. of the Latvian National Library. The project resulted in three different and very interesting concert programmes, where each of them had used and arangled music and songs from both archives. With excitement, the project came out in Riga's art room this year, but it will be possible to live with Lūznavas in the manor.
19.00 Siim Aimla Quartet (Estonia), entry fee 4.00 €
Saxonist Siim Aimla is one of the leading people of the new generation in Estonian jazz music. As a great saxophone player, an artist and a teacher of THE Otsa music school, he still finds energy to participate in many challenging projects in Quartet. Siim Aimla Quartet is a musician: Siim Aimla, Joel Remmel (piano), Ara Yaralyan (bass), Eno Kollon. In the Quartet concert program Lūznavas, a jazz classic will sound in the festival “Skiun jazz”.
20.00 Student and masterclass students Jem session, entrance free
The festival teachers and masters students attend Jem sessions every evening. “Shadow jazz” masters are given by Vita Rausaityte (LT, vokal), Skirbels Saskatska (LT, blowing instruments), Indriatic Weightner (LV, blowing instruments), Madars Kalniņš (LV, keyboard instruments), Siim Aimla (EE, blowing instruments), Ara Yaralyan (EE, contrabass), Arkady Gotesman (LT, sitamines), but more than 20 young and already experienced musicians from all Baltic States participate.
31 August
31.08. 14.00 Festival masterpieces concert, entrance fee 3.00 €
Festival's masterpieces concert. “Shadow jazz” masters are given by Vita Rausaityte (LT, vokal), Skirbels Saskatska (LT, blowing instruments), Indriatic Weightner (LV, blowing instruments), Madars Kalniņš (LV, keyboard instruments), Siim Aimla (EE, blowing instruments), Ara Yaralyan (EE, contrabass), Arkady Gotesman (LT, sitamines), but more than 20 young and already experienced musicians from all Baltic States participate.
31.08. 18.00 dicsiland “dream team”, entrance fee 4.00 €
In 2013, the “dream team 1935” was created by a typical 1930 s jazz ensemble – a dictated composition where the leading Latvian jazz musicians were invited. A new, wonderful and original jazz collective, the great performance of which could be heard in the film, emerged from the first sound. The well-started work is now continuing with a number of concert programmes. Dictated “dream team” has appeared in the best Latvian jazz festivals, regularly concerting both public and corporate events, as well as Riga and Latvian jazz clubs. The concert programme “trip to Diksi-lendu”, which will sound IN Lūznavas manor, is dedicated to traditional jazz style - dicsilenda stylistics, but creative and innovative use of the possibilities of this traditional jazz. The programme contains both the classic of dicsilenda genre and the innovative and well-known arangeous-known modern foreign and Latvian pop music hiti. The group consists of well-known Latvian jazz music professionals “with seniority” and experience in many configurations and a wide variety of projects – the leader of the dictator is the clarnist and the saxonist Indriatic Veitner, the collective musicist pianist, composer and artist Madars Kalniņš, one of the best Latvian jazz trompetists Normunds piesis, as well as the contrabasist Andris Grunte, drummer Krišjannis Bremshis and the banjo player Bruno Priekulis.
31.08. 19.00 music project “Sambossa” (Lithuania), entrance fee 4.00 €
“Sambossa” is one of the most successful jazz music projects in Lithuania. The project was created in 2006 by Skirmantas Sasnauska and Vita Rusaityte, and the project continues its activities by constantly updating the programme. The “sambossa” repertoire includes Antonio Carlos Jobima's sound and other Latin American melodies as well as original compositions. The sect stands out with a transparent and acoustic sound. Jazz music project composition: Skrimantas Sasnauska (thrombone, voice), Vita Rusaityte (voice), Vytautas Mikeliunas (vijole), Arturas Chalikova (guitar, voice), Eugenijus Kanevicius (basguitar), Arkadia Gotesman (drums).
31.08. 20.00 Festival final concert “continuation”. Rezekne bigbends, soldiers, entrance fee 4.00 €
Rēzekne bigbends is an orchestra of the professional orchestra “Rēzekne” (founded in 1991). Bigband artistic manager – trombonist, jazz musician Lauris Ahervs. The collective home and the most regular concert venue is Latgale Embassy GORE. Rezekne bigbends offers concert programmes with Latvian and foreign composers and jazz music compositions, attracting a variety of popular soldiers in Latvia (recent years of collaboration with singer Christine Prawls, Diana pier, Andris Egli, Andris Daņilenko and others). In the final concert of the festival “Shkiun jazz”, a special program will be performed with the participation of soldiers Vita Rusaitytes, Indriku Veitner, Skirmanta Sasnauska, Arkadia Gotesman, Siim Aimla, Mikkel Padar and Madara Kalniņa.
The festival's concert entrance tickets are bought in “ticket paradise” in cash registers throughout Latvia and the Internet, as well AS on site Lūznavas in Manor. Special Quote - Festival tickets: Festival two-day (30-31.08) entrance ticket 15.00 €, Festival First Day (30.08) entrance ticket 6.00 €, and festival second day (31.08) entrance ticket 10.00 €. All festival evenings from Wednesday to Saturday AT Lūznavas in Manor will run at a minute restaurant “birds pop up”.
The festival “Shkiun jazz” is organized BY THE Lūznavas manor team and the festival's artistic leader Lauris Ahervs, the festival's conduct is supported by Rēzekne municipality and Latgale cultural programme with the State Culture Capital background, AS “Latvian State Forests” and the financial support of the Latgale Region Development Agency. More about the first Baltic jazz festival “Skiun jazz”: http://www.luznavasmuiza.lv/notikumi/skiuna-dzezs/.
More information:
Inga Girgule,
Head of the Luznava Manor Culture Project
29473700
inga.zirgule@rezeknesnovads.lv
http://luznavasmuiza.lv