Andrejs Osokins is an internationally acclaimed Latvian pianist, laureate of the most important international piano competitions and the Latvian Grand Music Award, who has performed in legendary European concert halls both in solo recitals and with orchestras under outstanding conductors. Andrejs Osokins’s concerts are filled with emotion, love, and beautiful piano music; they impress with the musician’s confident sense of different musical styles, charisma, and virtuosity, as well as with wonderful interpretations of works and stories about music. The pianist regularly gives masterclasses in Latvia and abroad, is a lecturer at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, where he also heads the Piano Department, and is the founder and artistic director of the Osokins Freedom Festival. In 2024, he established the Osokins Foundation, with whose team he actively carries out various support initiatives for Ukraine and events for emerging musicians in Latvia and Ukraine. For his concert work and the charitable campaigns he has carried out in support of Ukraine, he was awarded the Order of the Three Stars at the rank of Officer.
The concert features sacred music by Johann Sebastian Bach, works by the masters of German Romanticism Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms, as well as pieces by Jānis Mediņš and Emīls Dārziņš, creators of some of the most beautiful Latvian melodies. The concert program will be performed on David Klavins’s unique Una Corda piano, which will give well-known works an intimate and completely new depth of sound.
Musicians:
Andrejs Osokins, Una Corda piano
