Liepāja Symphony Orchestra

["Liepāja Symphony Orchestra is the oldest orchestra in the Baltic States. It was started in 1881, when the first Philharmonic in the Baltics was established. After the World War II orchestra re-commenced its work in 1947, under the wing of the Music School of Liepāja, led by the director of the music school for many years – Valdis Vikmanis. A new chapter in the history of orchestra started at the very end of 1986, when orchestra was granted the status of a professional symphony orchestra, and became the second professional symphony orchestra in Latvia. For many years its artistic director was Imants Resnis, for several seasons it was Atvars Lakstīgala who worked with the orchestra, but since 2017 the artistic director and chief conductor of the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra is Gintaras Rinkevicius.\nSince 2015 home of the orchestra is the new concert hall of Liepāja - the \"Great Amber\". In March 2016, the 24th Liepaja International Stars Festival took place in the Great Amber Concert Hall. The festival opened on March 5, 2016 under the direction of conductor Matthias Manasi with the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra and the piano duo Amal.\n\nFrom Wikipedia (","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liepāja...",") under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (","http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...",")"]