This year, the cycle Summer Night Chamber Music will take place on 6, 7 and 8 September, in the luxuriant gladioli blooming season, while the responsibility for the programme this time has been entrusted to the Sinfonietta Rīga artistic collaborator, world-renowned clarinettist, composer and conductor Jörg Widmann. As always, Sinfonietta Rīga welcomes its listeners to a feast of chamber music in the home of the Zuzeum Art Centre.

In the 6 September programme "MOZART'S CLARINET QUINTET AND WIDMANN'S CIRCUS DANCES", alongside the masterpiece of the Vienna classic (with Jörg Widmann himself as soloist), listeners will also get to know the multifaceted chamber works of Widmann, who is in high demand in the most significant concert halls across the world, as composer.

Meanwhile the evening of 7 September is devoted to the programme assembled by the Sinfonietta Rīga String Quartet under the title "ATMOSPHERES OF RIGA. LATVIAN MUSIC PREMIERES", shedding light on four contemporary composers from Riga who have polished their mastery in different countries of the world – Anna Fišere, Kārlis Rērihs, Ernests Vilsons and Krists Auznieks – their opuses weaving together acoustic performance with the possibilities presented by electronics.

If the thematic accent in the cycle's opening evening of concerts is placed on a creative dialogue with the genius of Mozart, the concluding programme on 8 September, "INSPIRED BY SCHUBERT", will present Widmann's colour- and transcendental reflection-filled Octet side by side with the monumental octet of the Austrian lyricist Schubert. Also not to be missed is the opportunity to meet Widmann in person before the concert. His passion, impressive erudition and charisma will be an opportunity to step into the artist's laboratory of sonic images and ideas.
 

The concert will be introduced by music journalist Liene Jakovļeva.