Dances for saxophone and accordion

The concert program “Dances for Saxophone and Accordion” is conceived as a vivid, temperamental, and stylistically diverse chamber music journey in which two especially expressive instruments meet: the saxophone and the accordion. Both instruments are closely linked to the musical language of the 20th and 21st centuries, urban culture, dance rhythms, echoes of folk music, and the blending of genres. At the heart of the program is dance as a universal musical and cultural phenomenon. Here it is not only a rhythmic impulse or a genre reference, but also a way of thinking, physical energy, movement, dialogue. The program takes the listener through different geographical and stylistic spaces: from the nuevo tango aesthetic of Astor Piazzolla to the Iberian dance scenes of Gorka Hermosa, from the intensity of Latin American rhythms to the Greek-inspired festive atmosphere of Pedro Iturralde, from the French and world music colors of Richard Galliano to the Brazilian freedom and playfulness of Hermeto Pascoal.

The concert program features outstanding musicians, accordionist Artūrs Noviks and saxophonist Aigars Raumanis.