Margarita performs Dvorak Cello Concerto with Ulsan Philharmonic with conductor Chung Min

Margarita conducts Jeonju Symphony Orchestra

Venue: Samsung Arts Center

Programme:

Beethoven Die Weihe des Hauses op.124

Stravinsky Firebird 1919

Paganini Guitar Quartet No. 15 arranged for Viola

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Dvorak Symphony No.9 ''From The New World'

Margarita Balanas performs piano trios together with William Youn (piano) and Mone Hattori (violin)

Margarita Balanas performs piano trios together with William Youn (piano) and Mone Hattori (violin)

Seoul, Choi Ina Books

Doors open – 7:00pm
Performance begins – 8:00pm
Latecomers will not be admitted

TICKETS AND INFO:

https://ladbrokehall.com/live-programme/live-music/anonomi-classical-orchestra-performs-new-world-symphony/

“The latest voice in the dialogue about what the future of classical music might look like” – The Arts Desk

ANONIMI Chamber Orchestra launches its exciting new residency series at Ladbroke Hall. The season opens with Dvořák’s New World Symphony in Iain Farrington’s chamber arrangement for just 17 players, bringing this iconic work into sharp, intimate focus. Founded in 2023 by Margarita Balanas, Decca Classics artist and award-winning cellist–conductor, ANONIMI brings together exceptional young musicians from the UK, known for vivid, high-energy performances that reimagine the classical concert experience. From 2026, Ladbroke Hall becomes ANONIMI’s creative home – a space for bold arrangements, composer-led explorations and unforgettable evenings where beloved masterpieces meet fresh perspectives.

ANONIMI is grateful for the support of Fidelio Charitable Trust.

Latvian conductor and cellist Margarita Balanas has performed at leading venues worldwide, including Carnegie Hall, Berliner Philharmonie, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, Sydney Opera House, Foundation Louis Vuitton and L’Auditori Barcelona.

Margarita is the founder and conductor of the ANONIMI Orchestra and Charity. She held the Assistant Conductor position to Paavo Järvi at the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich in season 23/24 and 24/25. This season includes conducting debuts with Das Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen and Argovia Philharmonic.

Margarita is a Decca Classics recording artist and is a recipient of the Latvian Grand Music Award and has performed as soloist with the Munich Philharmonic, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and at festivals such as Dresdner Musikfestspiele, International Cello Festival Shanghai, Moritzburg Festival, and Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier.

“It’s more mysterious than ever today what it takes to be a conductor, but you can tell straight away whether someone has that certain something. Margarita Balanas has it.” -Maestro Järvi

📅 Date: 19 February 2026
🕰️ Time: doors open 7pm
📍 Location: The Mildmay Club (N16 9PR)

Kristine and Margarita Balanas bring duets for violin and cello by Maurice Ravel, Peteris Vasks, and more to iconic working people’s club The Mildmay Club.

Timings

7pm: doors open

7.30pm: recommended latest arrival

8pm: The Balanas Sisters' set starts

9.30pm: estimated finish time

More info + tickets: https://www.throughthenoise.co.uk/noisenight232

Zwei in Lettland geborene Schwestern wollen sich in Herzen des Publikums spielen: die Geigerin Kristine Balanas und die Cellistin Margarita Balanas. Die beiden Musikerinnen gehören zu den vielseitigsten und aufregendsten Künstlerinnen ihrer Generation. Mit ihrer virtuosen Pracht haben sie die Zuhörenden in den bedeutendsten Konzertsälen der Welt in ungläubiges Staunen versetzt und mitgerissen. In der Berliner Philharmonie haben sie mit dem Doppelkonzert von Brahms das Publikum begeistert.

Und jetzt werden sie ihre Kunst in der Kirche Seon vorstellen. Kristine Balanas tritt mit den bekanntesten Sinfonieorchestern in ganz Europa und Asien auf und spielt mit ihrer unglaublichen Virtuosität und Musikalität die grossen Violinkonzerte von Beethoven, Bartok, Tschaikowsky, Barber. Margarita Balanas ist nicht nur versierte Kammermusikerin und Solistin, sondern auch Dirigentin. Zwei Saisons lang war sie beim Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich Assistentin des Chefdirigenten Paavo Järvi, der über sie das sagte: «Es ist ja heute mysteriöser denn je, was es braucht für diesen Beruf, aber man merkt sofort, ob jemand das gewisse Etwas hat. Margarita Balanas hat es.»

In Seon spielen die Schwestern unter anderem Werke des in Riga lebenden, 1946 geborenen Peteris Vasks, von Antonio Vivaldi und Zoltan Kodaly. Der Abend verspricht eine Fülle lebendig vorgetragener, abwechslungsreicher Musik!

More info and tickets:

https://seetalclassics.ch/konzert/balanas-balanas/

Margarita conducts Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen at Tonhalle St.Gallen

Margarita conducts Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen at Tonhalle St.Gallen

Margarita conducts ANONIMI at Ladbroke Hall on the 12th of November

Repertoire: 
Gustav Mahler 4th Symphony in G Major (Arr. Iain Farrington)

Performers:
Samuel Mariño, Soprano
ANONIMI Chamber Orchestra 
Margarita Balanas, Conductor 

https://ladbrokehall.com/live-programme/live-music/anonimi-plays-mahler-4/

Balanas Sisters perform at Festival Internacional de Música de Paços de Brandão

Classics Festival of La Villa Charlotte - Grand Concert III - Finale

Sergeï Prokofiev (Overture on Jewish Themes op. 34 - Sextet for clarinet in B flat, piano and string quartet), Belá Bartók (Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano), Sergeï Rachmaninov (Trio Elegiac n. 1 in G Minor, violin, cello and piano), Georges Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue, version for piano 4 hands).

By: Sérgio Pires (clarinet), Fanny Clamagirand (violin), Mira Foron (violin), Miguel Da Silva (viola), Margarita Balanas (cello), Jean-Paul Gasparian (piano), Matan Porat (piano).

Antonin Dvorak, Quintet for piano and strings n. 2 in A Major op. 81.

By: Fanny Clamagirand (violin), Mira Foron (violin), Miguel Da Silva (viola), Margarita Balanas (cello), Matan Porat (piano).

Max Bruch (Eight pieces op. 83 for clarinet, cello and piano).
By: Sérgio Pires (clarinet), Margarita Balanas (cello), Matan Porat (piano).

Johann Farjot - Creation for violin and clarinet (commissioned by the Festival).
By: Fanny Clamagirand (violin), Sérgio Pires (clarinet).

Johannes Brahms (Quintet for clarinet and strings in B Minor, Op. 115).
By: Sérgio Pires (clarinet), Fanny Clamagirand (violin), Mira Foron (violin), Miguel Da Silva (viola), Margarita Balanas (cello).

Johan Sebastian Bach, First suite for solo cello: Prelude, Sarabande, Courante.

György Ligeti, Sonata for solo cello : 2nd movement "Capriccio".

Krzysztof Pernderecki, Capriccio, for solo violin.

Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata for solo violin BWV 1001 Adagio & Fugue.

Eugène Ysaÿe, Sonata no. 3 op. 27 for solo violin "Ballade".

By: Mira Foron (violin), Margarita Balanas (cello)

Margarita conducts Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

Kunterwunderbunt – Abschlusskonzert «Fest der Farben»
Musik von Rodolphe Schacher

Margarita conducts Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

Kunterwunderbunt – Abschlusskonzert «Fest der Farben»
Musik von Rodolphe Schacher

Experience an unforgettable evening as the Fidelio Orchestra, led by conductor Margarita Balanas, presents Shostakovich’s searing portrait of Stalin, and barrister-pianist Paul Wee takes the stage to perform Rachmaninov’s legendary Third Concerto.

ANONIMI Chamber Orchestra 
Margarita Balanas, conductor 
Martin James Bartlett, piano 
Jasmin Iris Ghera, trumpet

Programme

Sibelius Andante Festivo 
Stravinsky Concerto in D Major, K075
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.1 op.35 

Book your ticket via:

https://ladbrokehall.com/live-programme/classical-2/anonimi-chamber-orchestra/

The dynamo Latvian violin and cello sister duo are bringing a thrilling program of Baroque masters (Vivaldi’s Four Seasons), French impressionists and contemporary minimalists to Canberra as they make their much anticipated Australian debut.

https://snowconcerthall.com/the-balanas-sisters/

Hailing from Latvia, Kristīne and Margarita Balanas have carved out a reputation as two of the most exciting artists of their generation. Combined and individually they have taken Europe by storm, with their biographies already boasting performances with countless first rate orchestras, and appearances in many of Europe’s greatest halls. 

Bringing a thrilling program of Baroque masters, French Impressionists and contemporary minimalists, they make their much anticipated Australian debut performing Vivaldi Four Seasons (arr.), Vasks and Ravel, as well Norwegian composer Halvorsen’s mesmerisingly virtuosic take on Handel’s Passacaglia.

Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks’s Castillo Interior was composed in remembrance of the mystic St Teresa of Avila, a mythologised 16th-century nun who documented her own ecstatic mystical experiences in her autobiography, The Life of Teresa of Jesus, as well as her books, The Interior Castle and The Way of Perfection. A meditative piece commemorating a rare 16th-century woman, published and therefore remembered by history.

Vasks’ deeply reflective and spiritual work is paired with Ravel’s rich, impressionistic violin and cello sonata, written by the French composer between 1920 and 1922 in memory of another French great, Claude Debussy.

Light and storm from the Balanas Sisters’ ingenious arrangements of Vivaldi’s beloved The Four Seasons, as well as the Balanas’ thrilling take on the Halvorsen-arranged Handel Passacaglia rounds this program out into what promises to be a real highlight of Snow Concert Hall’s 2025 season.

An Australian and Utzon debut from Latvian-born siblings Kristīne and Margarita Balanas, celebrated for their virtuosity and versatility, playing Vasks, Vivaldi, Ravel, Handel/Halvorsen, Cawrse and Hindson.https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/utzon-music/balanas-sisters

Music played between siblings has its own deep magic

In this afternoon of musical kinship, The Balanas Sisters centre a work from a giant of Latvian composition Pēteris Vasks, whose austerely beautiful Castillo Interior — inspired by 16th century mystic Teresa of Avila —finds common aesthetic ground with Maurice Ravel’s yearning sonata, written in memoriam of Claude Debussy. Beginning their recital with a Handel Passacaglia originally composed for solo harpsichord, arranged in the 19th century by Norwegian Johan Halvorsen, they return later to their own arrangement of excerpts from another baroque favourite: light and storm from Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, played with sisterly mischief.  And in honour of their Australian debut, the Balanas Sisters have chosen Matthew Hindson’s Always on Time, and Anne Cawrse’s aptly named Sanctuary. We’re rapt to welcome Kristīne and Margarita, who are justly lauded as two of the most exciting artists of their generation — both as soloists, and when playing together in this symbiotic duo.

Balanas Sisters Recital

An unmissable Valentine’s Day performance filled with ‘eye-popping virtuosity’ (The Times UK).

Having carved out a reputation as two of the most exciting artists of their generation, Latvian sisters Kristine and Margarita Balanas make their Melbourne Recital Centre debut.

From Australian composer Anne Cawrse’s atmospheric and sublime Sanctuary, right through to Norwegian composer Halvorsen’s mesmerisingly virtuosic take on Handel’s Passacaglia, this thrilling program features Baroque masters paired with contemporary minimalists.

Composed in remembrance of the mystic St Teresa of Avila, a mythologised 16th-century nun who documented her own ecstatic mystical experiences in her autobiography, Pēteris Vasks’ meditative work Castillo Interior takes audiences to a deeply reflective and spiritual place before Ravel’s rich, impressionistic Sonata for Violin and Cello rounds out this hour-long performance of musical light and shade.

https://www.melbournerecital.com.au/events/2025/the-balanas-sisters/

Balanas Sisters Recital

An unmissable Valentine’s Day performance filled with ‘eye-popping virtuosity’ (The Times UK).

Having carved out a reputation as two of the most exciting artists of their generation, Latvian sisters Kristine and Margarita Balanas make their Melbourne Recital Centre debut.

From Australian composer Anne Cawrse’s atmospheric and sublime Sanctuary, right through to Norwegian composer Halvorsen’s mesmerisingly virtuosic take on Handel’s Passacaglia, this thrilling program features Baroque masters paired with contemporary minimalists.

Composed in remembrance of the mystic St Teresa of Avila, a mythologised 16th-century nun who documented her own ecstatic mystical experiences in her autobiography, Pēteris Vasks’ meditative work Castillo Interior takes audiences to a deeply reflective and spiritual place before Ravel’s rich, impressionistic Sonata for Violin and Cello rounds out this hour-long performance of musical light and shade.

https://www.melbournerecital.com.au/events/2025/the-balanas-sisters/

Balanas Sisters Recital

Information about the performance: https://www.baroquehall.com/recitals

Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1274434

Balanas Sisters Recital

Information about the performance: https://www.baroquehall.com/recitals

Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1274434

Natürlich darf auch in dieser Saison die beliebte „Cello Night“ nicht fehlen. Acht erstklassige Cellistinnen aus der Schweiz, Deutschland und Lettland werden Sie unter anderem mit Piazzollas spektakulären „Las cuatro estaciones porteñas“ ins Neue Jahr begleiten. Mit Margarita Balanas als Solistin in Schumanns berühmten Cellokonzert präsentieren wir Ihnen eine sehr spannende und hochbegabte Musikerin.

Programm
ROBERT SCHUMANN: Cellokonzert, op. 129 a-Moll
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA: Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas

Mitwirkende
Margarita Balanas, Violoncello
Anna Tyka Nyffenegger, Violoncello
Milena Marena, Violoncello
Thomas Grossenbacher, Violoncello
Paul Handschke, Violoncello
Anton Spronk, Violoncello
Sandro Meszaros, Violoncello
Benjamin Nyffenegger, Violoncello

More information: https://seetalclassics.ch/konzert/05-cello-night/

Margarita Balanas and Daumants Liepiņš perform a recital at OLA Foundation in Rīga, Latvia

Programme includes music by Franck, Debussy and Beethoven

https://olafoundation.lv/blogs/notikumi/divu-zvaigznu-duets-daumants-liepins-un-margarita-balanas-pirmo-reizi-uz-vienas-skatuves

Fidelio Orchestra: Fragments of a Vanished World

Saturday 28 September 2024 • 7pm

Camille Saint-Säens Cello Concerto No 1
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Overture-fantasy from ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Gustav Mahler ‘Langsam-Ruhevoll-Empfunden’ from Symphony No 3

Margarita Balanas  cello
Raffaello Morales  conductor
Fidelio Orchestra

https://www.lso.co.uk/whats-on/fidelio-orchestra-fragments-of-a-vanished-world/

Margarita Balanas conducts Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich in a programme featuring music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir.