Night of Kulakov – already this Friday in Livani – Music in Latvia – Music – Culture +

This year, the "Kulakov Night" will celebrate four important anniversaries: the 60th anniversary of Ieva Akurateres and Jura Kulakova, the 50th anniversary of the group "Menuets" and the twentieth anniversary of "Three Latvian tenors". The concerts will be followed by bands such as "Menuetz", "Rusty Wheel", "Power", "La Dura", "Laima Muzykanti", "Riga Fashion", Justin Kulakov (violin) and "Three Tenori" (Nauris Puntulis , Guntars Ruņģis and Miervaldis Jenčs)), Andrejs Gaiduks, Sovvīniks, Rihards Saule & Co, Igors Silins and, of course, the group "Perkons" in its entirety.

Asked about his feelings at the birthday, Juris Kulakov, with his own sense of humor, refused: Every day, when do you wake up and lead your life! Life is long, life is short, the flow of time is endless, and the past and the future are only likely. When atoms work together, they stand at one point in the right position, thunder "Thunder" and shake the foundations of Latvian pop-rock. Like Eduard Veidenbaum, who suffered from censorship and is the most forbidden poet of his time, "Thunder" is also the most banned Latvian rock band, but now – the most honorable. Veidenbaum tried to anchor everything in the case, right up to the heart, and I had not started hanging out. A "Thunderbolt" disc with unpublished songs has been searched and will be released, there will be concerts, will be "Kulakov's Night". Jeb, quoting a small piece of "Thunder": "You teach me to do it again, I just want to continue!"

Juris Kulakov studying at the School of Music of the & # 39; 39, music school for children, learns the game of accordion. the first owners of synthesizers in Latvia. During the school years, he played in both fanfare and party ensembles. In 1979, Juris graduated from the J. Medins Music School in Riga, but a year earlier, in 1978, joined the group "Menuets", played key instruments until the group ceased operations in 1983, and also performed Kulakov's compositions. In 1980, Juris Kulakov, with part of the "Menueta", created the band "Thunder" and is the author of almost all of his piece music, keyboard instrument and group leader. Graduated from the Faculty of Culture and Art of the State Conservatory of Latvia in 1984 and graduated from the composition of Professor Pēteris Plakids, he studied jazz piano of Raimonds Pauls

J. Kulakov composes the songs of the actor Edgars Liepiņš for concert programs. "In 2001, he received the" Night of the Game "award from the music of Antoine de Saint-Ekziper for the production of the Little Princess at the Liepaja Theater in 2001), together in 1984 Imants Kalniņš and Juris Sāreans wrote the presbytery "Like the sea, like the earth, like the sky"

90. Juris Kulakov concentrated on the composition of vocal and instrumental compositions of great form: the cantata "Red Train" commemorating the victims of the Communist genocide and cabbage "Letters on the sidewalk" devoted to the events of 1991 with the text of the poet Normunds Beks.The cycle of Jura singing "Seven Hundred Songs to the Words of Eduard Veidenbaum" (1987). Ieva Akurater, the single opera "Heavenly Need" (1996), the cantata "Matthew Pbadion" (1999) and the cycle "The Eater Odier" with Poems by Jānis Ziemeļnieka (2007)