On May 31, the concert hall "Latvija" will host the well-known French cellist Jean-Guillaume Queiras (Jean-Guihen Queyras) concert with the chamber orchestra “Sinfonietta Rīga” and conductor Normunds Šnē.
The extravagant cellist Jean-Guillaume Queiras' musical horizons are unusually broad for the modern world, both in terms of repertoire and stage presence. Queiras feels free in music of different eras and styles, willingly challenges those who adhere to rigid frameworks and at the same time enchants with his enthusiasm, having managed to play with the world's greatest orchestras and conductors.
Jean-Guyenne Queiras performs with such world-famous orchestras as the Philadelphia Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, London Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, and the Berlin Philharmonic. Gewandhaus orchestra and Zurich Tonhalle orchestra under the direction of conductors Philippe Herevege, Yannick Nézé-Séguin, François Xavier Roth, John Elliot Gardiner and Roger Norrington.
