Ekskursiju kuģītis "Hercogs Jēkabs"
Viens no populārākajiem pilsētas tūrisma un atpūtas objektiem ir Ventspils brīvostas ekskursiju kuģītis "Hercogs Jēkabs". No maija līdz oktobrim tas 5–7 reizes dienā atiet no piestātnes Tirgus un Ostas ielu krustojumā. 45 minūšu vai 1 h 05 minūšu brauciena laikā Jums ir iespēja aplūkot Ventas upes grīvu, vecpilsētu un Ventspils brīvostas industriālo teritoriju un jūras vārtus. Uz kuģīša ir 150 vietu.
Kuģīša kursēšanas grafiks augustā
Darba dienās: 10.00, 12.00*, 14.00, 16.00*, 18.00, 19.00
Sestdienās, svētdienās un svētku dienās: 10.00, 11.30*, 13.00, 14.30, 16.00*, 17.30, 19.00
Conductors
Music and Artistic Director
TARMO PELTOKOSKI
At the beginning of the 2022/2023 concert season, then 22-year-old Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski became the Music and Artistic Director of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra (LNSO).
Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski will become the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra’s Music Director beginning in the 2026/27 season, after serving as Music Director Designate in 2025/26. He was awarded the title “Principal Guest Conductor” of The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in January 2022, the first conductor to hold this position in the orchestra’s 42-year history. In May 2022, Peltokoski was named Music and Artistic Director of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra. He started his term in the 22/23 season. He was subsequently named Principal Guest Conductor of the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest. In August 2022 at the age of 22, he completed his first Wagner Ring cycle at the Eurajoki Bel Canto Festival. In December 2022, Peltokoski was announced as Music Director of the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. In recent seasons he made debuts with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Göteborgs Symfoniker as well as SWR Symphonieorchester at Pfingstfestspiele Baden-Baden and with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
Conductor Emeritus
VASSILY SINAISKY
Vassily Sinaisky is renowned across Europe as a conductor of operas and symphony music concerts. He has performed in top opera houses and concert halls and is an esteemed and sought-after conducting teacher. He is one of the best Chief Conductors in the history of the LNSO, a remarkable conductor of works by Latvian composers. Sinaisky is best known for his command of the Russian, German, and English symphony music repertoire.
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Principal Guest Conductor
KRISTIINA POSKA
Kristiina Poska is an award-winning conductor. This season saw Kristiina debut with English National Opera in a production of Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow, Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with Fondazione del Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, a programme of Penderecki, Haydn and Brahms with Komische Oper Berlin and will see her perform at the Festival Berlioz with Orchestre national de Lyon in August.
Upcoming highlights include Theatre Basel’s New Year Concert with Sinfonieorchester Basel and productions of La Bohème and Peter Grimes, a production of Carmen with Staatsoper Stuttgart, the opening concert of the Mozart Week 2020 in Salzburg with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Die Entführung aus dem Serail with Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden and her inaugural concert as Chief Conductor with Flanders Symphony Orchestra in October.
Artistic Advisor
ANDRIS POGA
Andris POGA is the Chief Conductor of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra since 2021/22 season. He was the Music Director of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra (LNSO) from 2013 till 2021 and will continue to collaborate with the LNSO as its Artistic Advisor.
Highlights of recent years have included concerts with the leading orchestras of Germany, France, Italy, Japan and Scandinavia. After the first successful collaborations he has been invited back to the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester Hamburg, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, SWR Symphony Stuttgart, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and many others. He has also conducted the Wiener Symphoniker, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestre National de France, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony.
Conductor
JĀNIS STAFECKIS
Jānis Stafeckis is the conductor of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra since the 2022/2023 season.
He is the founder and artistic director of the Rēzekne Chamber Orchestra (2012), which brings together students and teachers of the Latgale region. As a guest conductor, he has collaborated with the chamber orchestra Sinfonietta Rīga, the Latvian Radio Choir, and the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra.
The conductor has shared the stage with famous musicians such as Maestro Raimonds Pauls, organist Iveta Apkalna, violinists Kristīne Balanas, Daniil Bulayev, and Olivia Steindler, cellist Gunta Ābele, saxophonist Arvydas Kazlauskas, the Riga Saxophone Quartet, sopranos Inese Galante and Sonora Vaice, bass
Krišjānis Norvelis, and others.
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2024/2025 GUEST CONDUCTORS
CONDUCTOR EMERITUS
CONDUCTOR
GUNTIS KUZMA
