Concert of Antonio Meneghetti at the National Opera House in Riga

CONCERT BY MAESTRO ANTONIO MENEGHETTI

Riga – Maestro Antonio Meneghetti performed in Riga for the first time, with a concert for piano and synthesizers held at the prestigious venue of the National Opera House, a treasure of Latvian architecture inaugurated in 1863. The Maestro’s previous performance was held exactly four months ago, on 8 December 2006, in the Sala Petrassi at Rome’s Parco della Musica, the largest auditorium in Europe and recently declared the most important auditorium in the world. The Rome concert was held under the patronage of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, one of the world’s oldest musical institutions (founded in 1585), which thus recognizes the Maestro’s musical and artistic validity on an international level. On the stage of the Main Hall of the Latvian National Opera House, Maestro Meneghetti performed on piano and electronic keyboards, interpreting his profound knowledge of classical music in modern tonalities. Meneghetti has received the Italian government’s Prize for Culture three times and is a member of the academic senate of the International Academy of Modern Art. His artistic approach stems from the consummation of the teachings of the most highly regarded academies. As Meneghetti himself affirms, “In music one must decide whether to live in spaces of advancement, without destroying what came before, or create a new universe.” Indeed, his music, which has made him a famous concert artist who is in demand around the world, rigorously takes all musical backgrounds into account, from percussion techniques to the spirituality of Gregorian music and from the metaphysics of Indian music to polyphonic choral music, without overlooking classical orchestration and its composition and decomposition. Based on these conditions, Meneghetti has developed his own musical art that respects classical academic precepts yet is also connected to seeming improvisation. The latter is a divergence that, according to the artist, is the quintessential “instrument” with which one can go beyond the “two horizons” that Bach considered insurmountable and with which musical pathos can be grasped, moment by moment. According to Meneghetti, “With the movement in the ‘third horizon’ music is not invented but rediscovered with the person who is capable of listening to it. Music is the action of the soul; it is an order of life that lyrically courts our sentiments.” Meneghetti’s concert attracted music lovers from around the world – Italy, Brazil, Russia, Germany, England and the Baltic countries – as well as ministers, politicians and important social figures in Latvia. For all enthusiasts who are constantly in search of innovative musical experiences, this concert in Riga was unquestionably a unique experience not to be missed in order to gain first-hand knowledge of the music of this eclectic artist.

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