The SINFONIETTA RĪGA State Chamber Orchestra will share the stage with MARIO BRUNELLO, an Italian cello player with an extensive international career, and the brilliant Latvian musician, long-standing solo cellist for the Kremerata Baltica Orchestra ĒRIKS KIRŠFELDS. Brunello has worked with some of the world’s major orchestras, appearing with the likes of Gidon Kremer, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Yuri Bashmet, Maurizio Pollini and Andrea Lucchesini. At the Cello Cēsis Festival, Brunelli will perform the Schubert‒ Cassadó Arpeggione Sonata in A minor. Ēriks Kiršfelds is the concertmaster of the cello group for the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra and regularly appear as a member of the Sinfonietta Amsterdam Orchestra. An outstanding chamber musician, Kiršfelds won the 2009 Grand Music Award, the highest musical award in Latvia, for outstanding work in ensemble. This programme will see the musician perform the ‘Sun Music’ concerto for cello and orchestra by the Latvian composer Anitra Tumševica. Conductor Artūrs Gailis.