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TURNING THE TIME. ENSEMBLE FOR NEW MUSIC TALLINN

12. APRIL 15.00



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Baltic Music Days 2026

What do we do with our time – how do we turn it, and toward what? Turning the Time begins with a simple gesture: adjusting a clock. Here, however, this gesture carries a broader meaning – to recalibrate one’s inner clock, to reorganise attention, and to make a conscious choice about direction. It also means changing the customary starting time of a concert. In this programme, the festival motto "We Live in Different Times" sounds not only as an observation, but as a call to action: different times begin the moment we shift our tempo and our values.

This is a concert that travels through time, but not in a scientific or science-fiction sense. Here, time changes as experience: it can stretch, contract, repeat itself, return to a single point, or suddenly switch to another temporal layer. It is precisely within these displacements that a question of choice becomes audible – do we follow an external rhythm, or do we consciously turn the clock hand in another direction?

At the centre of the programme are two new works, both receiving their world premieres. Anna Veismane’s "Poēma. Piens." draws inspiration from a poem by Imants Ziedonis and deliberately turns time back to 1977 – almost the year of the composer’s birth. It is a return to a different Latvian rhythm, a different sense of calm, and a different language, now heard through the lens of present-day experience.

The new work by Evija Skuķe is constructed in a fractal form: material repeats as time is continuously rotated and reorganised, like a pattern that shifts scale. For the listener, this creates a tangible sensation – familiar temporal orientation begins to slip away, and the mind is invited to abandon automatic following in favour of conscious presence.

The programme also includes works not previously heard in Latvia: music by Estonian composer Age Veeroos, who turns time enigmatically toward the hour of dreams, and by Norwegian composer Jan Martin Smørdal, whose memory-oriented music is inspired by patterns of collective human behaviour.

The programme is performed by the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn, whose precision and flexibility allow these ideas to be heard not as declarations, but as lived experience. Turning Time creates a situation in which each listener is invited to ask: what do I choose to turn forward today – and what do I deliberately turn in another direction?

Participants:Ensemble for New Music Tallinn

Program:

Anna VEISMANE “Poēma. Piens” – world premiere

Evija SKUĶE – new work – world premiere
Age VĒROSA (Age Veeroos) “Outlines of the Night” – Latvian premiere
Jans Mārtins SMORDĀLS (Jan Martin Smørdal)

etc.


Anna Veismane aicina uz koncertu “Pagriežot laiku” ar Ensemble for New Music Tallinn

Location:

Chamber hall

Event duration:

15.00-16.30 / 1h 30 min

Tickets:

Tickets: starting from € 15.00 (Ticket prices may change closer to the event)
Suggested age of attendees: 7+
Unnumbered tickets only for visitors in wheelchairs.

Organized by:

Great Amber in cooperation with the Latvian Composers’ Union

Supported by:

Liepāja City Council and State Culture Capital Foundation

Discounts:

Students, teachers, seniors – 25%
Persons with group I and II disabilities and their companions – 50%
For holders of the Honorary Family Card (“3+ Ģimenes karte”) or LT (“Šeimos kortelė”) or EST (“Perekaart”) – 25%

NB.  Upon attending a concert, the attendee must show personal identification.

Group tickets:
10–30 persons – 20%
30 and more persons – 25%

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