The SIGNUM Saxophone Quartet from Germany and the rising Latvian cello star MARGARITA BALANAS present a programme that takes the listeners on an exciting musical trip, from Bach to Piazzolla. The 2016-2017 Season saw the cellist Margarita Balanas appear at her debut recital at the Royal Festival Hall, performances at Wigmore Hall and the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival in Los Angeles. Mentored by cellist Lynn Harrell, she has been selected as one of the six cellists to take part in an edition of Gautier Capuçon’s Classe d’Excellence de Violoncelle at the Louis Vuitton Foundation. The saxophone quartet are winners of the Rising Star Award of the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO). And so the Cēsis concert offers the listeners an opportunity to hear and see the stage shared by a group of internationally acclaimed young talents, their musical interaction characterised by energy and youthful zeal.