Latvia’s rising musical stars are set to illuminate the stage at Riga’s Blackhead House with two captivating concerts in March. The Davinspiro Camerata, founded in 2022 by Daniils Bulajevs, is comprised of talented young Latvian musicians known for their energetic performances and virtuosity.

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On March 21st, the ensemble will perform Philip Glass’s Second Violin Concerto, American Seasons. The four-part work for violin, strings, and synthesizer creates a unique dialogue with Antonio Vivaldi’s celebrated The Four Seasons, echoing the cyclical nature of the year through a minimalist lens.
Unlike Vivaldi, Glass refrains from naming the movements, leaving room for individual interpretation of each season’s sound. Similarly, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky noted that his Serenade for Strings in D major was inspired by “a striving for freedom of thought,” a sentiment that resonates with the spirit of the concert. The Camerata will perform Tchaikovsky’s Serenade following the Glass concerto.
A week later, on March 29th, the musicians return to the Blackhead House with a program featuring Richard Strauss’s Metamorphoses and Johannes Brahms’s First String Sextet. Bulajevs describes the experience of listening to Brahms’s Sextet as “like embracing warmth.” Brahms composed this radiant work in his youth, at the age of 26.
In contrast, Strauss created Metamorphoses during a darker period, grappling with despair and grief over the destruction of European opera houses and cultural landmarks during World War II. “Two thousand years of cultural development have gone to ruin,” the composer wrote in a letter. Metamorphoses is a single-movement piece imbued with tragedy, longing, and constant transformation, captivating listeners from beginning to end.
Tickets for both concerts are available through the Biļešu paradīzes ticket network.
