Other events in Baltic States

Latvian conductor Mariss Jansons has been awarded one of music’s highest honors - the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal, informs LETA/classical-music.com.

"Mariss Jansons is one of the greatest musicians of our day. His conducting is a powerful combination of discipline and inspiration and his revelatory performances are innately truthful to the nuances of the score while filled with new discoveries and glimpses into the very heart of the music," the Royal Philharmonic Society said.

Jansons will be presented with the award on Friday at the Barbican Centre in London by the 2016 recipient, Mitsuko Uchida, following a concert by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Jansons is the 104th recipient since the medal was founded in 1870 in celebration of the centenary of Beethoven’s birth.