Make a question. Interview with composer, pianist and singer Janis Kirsis / Article / LSM.LV

"It will be a wonderful event in the artistic work of Framest", the joy does not hide the circus and tells us that it is already a tradition – the "Framest" Christmas is expected each year with a solo concert. "But it's a special year.

You will have the opportunity not only to express yourself, but also to deal with a variety of genre issues, thus offering listeners the opportunity to listen to jazz music for a vocal group with a symphony orchestra.

During these years, the programs have been very different for us, and this time it will be a real holiday badtail in the true sense of the word: it will sound in new arrangements for the symphony orchestra. "

Jānis Liepiņš will accompany the conductor during the concert, with which Jānis Kirsis is badociated with an old and close friendship: "We are clbadmates of the first level!" He also recognizes me and me in one piece: we both know how to write each other, the way we work. We discuss fundamental issues – we discuss in more detail. In our concerts, he has always been present as a close and contemporary musical friend, he also knows this music better – he has heard us in almost all solo concerts, so it's a natural meeting on stage " says Cyris.

In the first part of the concert, there will be instrumental music and Jaundis Kārša's new production, about which the author himself says: "It is only when he speaks that you will be able to understand how to really define this genre … "

"It's my quest for jazz and symphonic genres, taking into account the trends of the time, I've blurred the boundaries between jazz, improvisation and the moment when the harmony of jazz becomes a harmony I'm primarily interested in solving these problems in a purely technological way, and for a particular symphony orchestra, such as a symphony orchestra, and not a big orchestra, there is a big difference. it is music, it is the development of the theme of Gunnar Rozenberg and his quotes in a contemporary way – in layers superimposed on my music – all in the form of an unknown phrase. "

By the way, in the concert, Jānis irsis will perform for the second time the "Portraits" of the symphonic feast of Maestro Raimonds Pauls – it is a very lively example of jazz music and jazz music in which we play it, which is not too often played.

As for the second part, which will be interpreted by Jānis Kirsha's arrangement for jazz clbadics and Maestro's original music "Framest" and LSO, Cherish promises it would be a special surprise for Liepaja and the other guests of the concert. "Overall, this evening will be a light music concert with the opportunity to enjoy jazz, music that is not so easy."

Asked about the role played by the piano in everyday life, Jānis Ķirsis smiles that the instrument has spent all his life conscientious and unconscious:

"In my childhood, I can not just think of pretexts that we can not go to school and be able to stay at home to play the piano." Today, there is on other occasions – stay home and write music … "

How do different facets of music meet – sing, write music, arrange and play? "This is just a question of self-discipline: when you are in a form, you are grateful for the steps you have made more than yesterday. This applies to everything that is in my life I have found a wonderful feeling that one place to the other run in a healthy and pleasant way – not to be forced to stay home alone and d & # 39; write music, or sit in an orchestra, etc. I am happy and grateful that there is such an opportunity and who needs it.As the saying goes: the question of doing! "