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Kuldīga 2005

December 18, 2022 at 4:28 pm
The 3rd International Festival – Competition of Chamber Ensembles for Young Performers “We play music with friends” took place on May 28th and 29th 2005 in the pearl of Kurzeme, the beautiful town of Kuldīga. It was a great event in the life of our music schools. The organizators were Jazeps Medins Music School of Riga and Ernests Vigners Music School of Kuldiga. The financial support was given by National Culture Capital Foundation, Council of Ministers and the City Council of Kuldīga.

Last year the Festival – Competition gathered 220 children from 26 music schools ( 76 ensembles ) and 86 teachers. We were also happy to meet and listen our friends in music from Vilnius, St.Peterburg, Kauna and Velikije Luki.
Each year the Festival – Competition’s circle of friends become more and more closer. We get a new experience, that gives us a chance to make the next enterprise more interesting amd more successful. Or thanks are due to our colleagues in Latvia and other countries for new ideas and valuable suggestions. The most exciting moments of the last year’s festival you could watch in a two hour long video film.

Short history

The history of the International Festival – Competition of Chamber Ensembles for Young Performers “We play music with friends” began in 2003. The authors of the idea were teachers of Jazeps Medins Music School of Riga. We see that a new mowement in musical education has been started in the whole world. Children like to play music in chamber ensembles. 

The enthusiastic teachers had an intention to organize an international meeting in Latvia either. In co-operation with colleagues from Latvian and foreign music schools we have created the children’s together-playing festival. Since then it has become a nice tradition. Every festival takes place at the end of the school-year and we are impatiently waiting for the next.

Atbalsta fonds “Muzicējam kopā ar draugiem”
Fonda Valdes priekšsēdētāja Gunta Melbārde,  +371 22390939, e-pasts weplay@inbox.lv  

Jāzepa Mediņa Rīgas 1. mūzikas skola
Kronvalda bulvāris 8, Rīga, LV-1010, tel. +371 67474535, e-pasts jmr1ms@riga.lv; http://jmr1ms.lv/

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