Lnso

The Latvian National Symphony Orchestra (LNSO) is a team of highly professional musicians with strong traditions, generous sound and devoted performance. The LNSO mainly focuses on 19th- and 20th-century orchestral masterpieces, classical and contemporary works by Latvian composers and occasionally concert performances of operas or musicals. The or... chestra pays great attention to educational children and youth programmes. For several years, it has successfully performed a series of chamber music programmes, and since 1926 it celebrates the end of the summer with the LNSO Summer Festival. The LNSO is a five-time recipient of the Latvian Grand Music Award. Since November 2013, the music director of the LNSO is Andris Poga. Among the orchestra's former music directors are Vassily Sinaisky, Olari Elts and Karel Mark Chichon. Guest conductors have included world-renowned Latvians Arvds Jansons, Mariss Jansons and Andris Nelsons as well as Kurt Masur, Kirill Kondrashin, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Neeme Jrvi, Paavo Jrvi, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Vladimir Fedoseyev, a.o. In recent years, the LNSO has given performances also at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, and the Thétre des Champs-Elysées in Paris among other places. In 2017, the LNSO with Andris Poga had two tours in France. In winter the LNSO performed at the Grand Thétre de Provence in Aix-en-Provence and Arsenal in Metz as well as in prestigious festival La Folle Journée in Nantes. In August the LNSO and Andris Poga received standing ovations at the Festival International de Piano de La Roque d'Anthéron. In October 2018 the LNSO and Andris Poga collaborated with Nicholas Angelich at the Philharmonie de Paris.Read More