Christmas Concert Ave Maria. Olga Pjatigorska, Edita Alpe

Christmas Concert AVE MARIA

Performers: Olga Pjatigorska - soprano, Edita Alpe - organ

The concert will feature popular classical music and traditional Christmas melodies.

Program includes V.A. Mozart, F. Gruber, F. Schubert, A. Adam, P. Jones, P. Mascagni

Olga Pjatigorska (soprano) was born in Riga. She graduated from the Riga Jazeps Medins Music College (class of Margarita Gruzdeva). During her student years, concert programs with organ accompaniment were created and successfully performed in various churches. After graduating from the Riga Jazeps Medins Music College, she entered two higher education institutions at once - the Latvian Academy of Music and the Conservatory of Music “Santa Cecilia” in Rome. She graduated with distinction from the “Santa Cecilia” Conservatory (class of Maestro Camillo Sforza).

She has performed at the Rome Opera, the Auditorium in Rome, the Basilica of San Paolo, the old church “Santa Chiara” in Naples, the National Theatre of Algiers, in Berlin, as well as in Riga.

Olga is a laureate of an international festival (2007). She was a diploma recipient of the Latvian public annual award “Priznanije” (2011). She takes part in chamber music projects organized by SIA “Latvian Concerts”. Since 2007, she has given concerts at Riga Cathedral every year. In 2008, she recorded her first CD “Ave Maria” with J. Lisicina at Riga Cathedral. She has worked with many well-known soloists and instrumentalists, including Jevgenija Lisicina, Ilze Reine, Edita Alpe, Jolanta Barinska, Paula Šumane, Idulis Cintins, Olegs Zhukovs, Leonards Antonievics and many others.

Olga Pjatigorska is a solo singing teacher at Jūrmala Music Secondary School.

EDITA ALPE is a Latvian organist and concert project manager, as well as a teacher at Jūrmala Music Secondary School.

She graduated from the organ class of the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music (master's degree, class of Professor Larisa Bulava). She further studied at the Bruksorgel Summer Academy in Sweden and at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto, Canada.

Edita Alpe has performed at the most important venues for organ music concerts in Latvia, and has also given concerts abroad. She has collaborated with many well-known soloists and instrumentalists, for example, she has played in an organ duet with her husband Tālivaldis Deksnis, with singers Ilona Bagele, Inga Šļubovska - Kancevica, Egils Siliņš, Evita Zālīte, Monta Martinsona, Žoržs Siksna, Olga Pjatigorska, Solveiga Raja, violinists Raimonds Ozols, Jāzeps Jermolovs, Paula Šūmane, Indulis Cintiņš, flutists Dita Krenberga and Ilona Kudiņa, oboist Indri Egle and many others.

The projects she has led have repeatedly received the “Jūrmala Annual Award in Culture” in various categories (for outstanding realization of cultural projects in 2008 and 2014, as well as the audience sympathy award in 2017).