July 28, 2020, 6:00
Dzintari beach
Sunrise Concert
Performers: Iveta Apkalna, organ
This year’s Jūrmala Festival will kick off with an unusual event: On 28 July at 6.00 a.m., all visitors are invited to watch the sunrise on Dzintari Beach, listening to an organ playing and the sounds of the sea, while enjoying a cup of hot tea or coffee. The world-renowned Latvian organist and honorary artist of Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie Iveta Apkalna will perform a special concert on the beach.
Event is free of charge.
Performers
Iveta Apkalna
OrganLatvian organist Iveta Apkalna is considered one of the leading instrumentalists in the world. Since 2017 she has served as the titular organist of the Klais organ at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany. For the January 2017 opening of the hall she took part in the two world premieres of the evening: Wolfgang Rihm’s Triptychon und Spruch in memoriam Hans Henny Jahnn with Thomas Hengelbrock and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Jörg Widmann’s ARCHE with Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg. In September 2018 Berlin Classics released the album “Light & Dark”, the first solo album recorded on the Klais organ at the Elbphilharmonie.
