Music of "Star Wars", "Game of Thrones" and original arrangements of classics will be performed at the festival "Classics" in Novosibirsk Philharmonic
On 4th of December the most unusual project of the International music festival "Classics" will be held - Latvian group DAGAMBA will present the program "Vivaldi Rock", where the audience will hear the music from the iconic "Star Wars", "Game of Thrones" as well as original arrangements of classical compositions. Novosibirsk Philharmonic Ensemble "Markell’s Voices" will come to the stage together with the guests of the festival.
On 4th of December at Arnold Kats State Concert Hall in the framework of the festival "Classics" there will be held a concert "Vivaldi Rock", where Latvian band DAGAMBA will perform original arrangements of both classical compositions and well-known musical themes from the saga "Star Wars" and popular series "Game of Thrones".
The band DAGAMBA attained worldwide fame thank to their creative approach to the classical repertoire. The bamd, founded in 2011, now cracks records of the level of views in social networks and perform with stunning success at the biggest world festival Glastonbury (UK).
The Group specializes in the performance of music in crossover and fusion style, using an unconventional set of tools - the sound of cello and piano interwoven with oriental percussion. Classical compositions by Bach, Prokofiev, Mozart sound absolutely unusual, acquire modern style by weaving popular rock and pop compositions.
In 2014 the band set a record in social media - their performance of "Ode to Joy" by Beethoven was shared by more than 10 million users of social networking site Facebook. This composition will finish the program of the band’s concert in Novosibirsk.
Having performed in 2015 with great success at the biggest world festival Glastonbury, the band were invited to the next festival and received recognition from critics and music producers from England, Italy, Sweden and other countries.
In 2015 the collective presented their new album Recycled, where they tried to diametrically change the prevailing among the audience opinion of classical music, carrying out incredibly bold experiments with sound. Bold and exciting arrangements of compositions, which creation was inspired by classical music grandees, joined different times and styles of music - Bach was sent to Iran, Prokofiev met with a knight from the movie Knight Rider, and Mozart shares his experience with Radiohead.
International festival "Classics" will be held from 2nd to 8th of December and will bring together seven concerts of international, Russian and Novosibirsk performers in such genres as ballet, ancient and classical music. Among the stars of the festival there are Ilze Liepa, Alexander Rudin, organist Jevgenia Lisicina (Latvia), pianist Tanel Joamets (Estonia) and other stars. According to the organizers, the program includes compositions that represent classic examples of its genre. The slogan of the festival is "Art of the highest standard".
The partner of the festival is “Rosbank”.
Tickets for the festival cost from 300 to 1800 rubles and are available in the ticket office and at Philharmonic website for purchase online.
Official website of DAGAMBA band http://dagamba.eu/
Album Recycled on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/recycled/id1067673729
DAGAMBA band performs composition Star Wars vs Games of Throne https://youtu.be/bYNs1rYUU-A