- Date
- Sunday 6 December 2026
- Time
- 18:00 · doors open at 17:30
- Venue
- Grand Ballroom, Grand Hotel Kempinski Riga
Aspazijas bulvāris 22, Rīga - Seating
- Unnumbered
- Tickets
- 45 EUR via TixFox · 47 EUR via Biļešu Serviss, including its booking fee
- Organiser
- Beitan Music Foundation
The evening
Max Beitan marks his 40th birthday on stage, with friends and colleagues around him. Across the evening the cello is the voice that connects Baroque music, virtuoso classics, operatic bel canto, Argentine tango and jazz improvisation.
The concert takes place in the Grand Ballroom of the Grand Hotel Kempinski Riga and is presented by Beitan Music Foundation.
Programme highlights
- Antonio VivaldiConcerto for Two Cellos, with string ensemble; with Nikolajs Šugajevs
- Isaac AlbénizAsturias (Leyenda), arranged for cello
- Dmitri ShostakovichWaltz No. 2
- Ennio MorriconeGabriel’s Oboe from The Mission
- Georges Bizet & Jules MassenetOpera themes, including Carmen
- Astor PiazzollaLibertango and Argentine tango
- Juan Tizol & Duke EllingtonCaravan; jazz dialogues for cello, saxophone and piano
These are the highlights of the programme, not the final running order. Individual works, arrangements and performers may still be refined.
On stage
- Max Beitancello
- Nikolajs Šugajevscello
- Artūrs Sebrissaxophone
- Artjoms Sarvijazz piano
- Konstantīns Paturskisviolin
- Diāna Bisterevocals
- Natālija Prihodčenkopiano
- String ensemble
Seating is unnumbered; doors open at 17:30. Each box office sets its own price.
A birthday gift with purpose
If you would like to mark Max’s 40th birthday, please leave the flowers and gifts aside. The gift that would mean the most is support for Beitan Music Foundation and its long-term work with the cello and instrumental projects. Any amount is welcome. Please use only the Foundation details below.
- Beneficiary
- Beitan Music Foundation
- Bank
- AS Signet Bank
- IBAN
- LV92 LLBB 0003 2070 0003 9
- SWIFT / BIC
- LLBBLV2X
- Currency
- EUR
- Payment reference
- Atbalsts Fondam — 40
- Registration no.
- 40008293231 · biedrība (association), Latvia
- Registered address
- Krišjāņa Barona iela 32, Rīga, LV-1011, Latvia
Questions about a contribution: [email protected] · beitanmusicfoundation.org
Enquiries: [email protected]