This year, we are delighted to bring you the holiday spirit once again — join us for the concert DEDICATION TO LOVE (VELTĪJUMS MĪLESTĪBAI) at Riga Luther Church in Torņakalns. Led by conductor Valdis Tomsons, the concert will showcase a diverse selection of evocative Christmas music by Latvian and international composers. The choir’s sound will…
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In November, representatives of the cultural sector will unite to draw the attention of the public and decision-makers to the inadequate funding of the cultural sector and the growing crisis in the remuneration of cultural workers. Although culture is an essential societal value, public funding for museums, libraries and performing arts organisations decreases year on…
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The State Choir Latvija and its artistic director Māris Sirmais invite audiences to the 29th International Sacred Music Festival, taking place from August 14th till September 10th at Riga St. Peter’s Church, Riga Cathedral, and Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus in Viļaka. The festival’s four concert programmes will present outstanding examples of sacred choral a…
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On Wednesday, January 14, the winter voting for Latvian Public Media’s annual culture award “Kilograms of Culture 2025” began. Voting will be open until January 25 at 11:59 PM on the public media portal LSM.lv. The winter voting includes several events in which the State Choir “Latvija” plays a significant role. In the category MUSIC…
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At a press conference on Wednesday, January 14, the jury of the Great Music Award announced the nominees for the 2025 Great Music Award as well as the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Awards. The 2025 Great Music Award for Lifetime Achievement will be presented to organist Larisa Bulava and composer and musicologist Georgs Pelēcis.…
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Beloniel: Aeronauts Latvian National Symphony Orchestra State Choir LATVIJA Insomnio Ensemble (Netherlands) Jan Hage (organ, Netherlands) Conductor Rene Gulikers (Netherlands) Composer – Bertold Beloniel (1943-2017, USA) CD1 Sinfonia Cosmologica Organ Sonata A Giardano Bruno Sonata (I, II, III) CD2 Infinity – Edge. transcendental Requiem (Part One, Part Two) Published: 12.12.2023. Publisher: encora Pirkt
EJ NU EJ is a story about a city boy who experiences a wide range of emotions — while riding a tram or visiting his grandmother’s seaside country home, thinking about his father’s sleep or an old fence gnawed by the tooth of time. Reflections and feelings that appear suddenly, a readiness for exciting adventures…
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CREDO State Choir LATVIJA Conductor Māris SIRMAIS List of works: Richard Strauss 1.Deutsche Motette Op 62 Sven-David Sandström Four songs of love 2. Let him kiss me 3. Until the daybreak 4. Awake, O north wind 5. His left hand Olivier Messiaen, arr. Clytus Gottwald 6. Louange à l’éternité de Jésus Ambrož Čopi 7. He…
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On January 10th in press conference the jury of The Grand Music Award announced nominees for this year. In the category CONCERT OF THE YEAR, the performance of Hector Berlioz’s Requiem on August 26 in Riga Cathedral was nominated. The monumental masterpiece was performed by State Choir LATVIJA, Orchestra RĪGA, Latvian National Symphony orchestra, tenor…
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State Choir LATVIJA has returned to Philharmonic Hall Szczecin in Poland where we where honored to perform Beethoven’s 9th Symfony at the Opening Concert of the concert hall in 2014. On October 1, 2021, celebrating the International Music day, together with Szczecin Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and soloists – soprano Iwona Sobotka (Poland), mezzo-soprano Agnieszka Rehlis (Poland),…
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AETERNUM: Latvian composers for the Centenary of Latvia Performers: State Choir “Latvija”Māris Sirmais – conductor Compositions: Ēriks Ešenvalds “Rasa (The Dew) Irīna Mihailovska “Uguns rituāls” (Fire Ritual) Valts Pūce “Dziesmu svētkos” (At the Song Festival) Andris Dzenītis “No debesīm” (From the Sky) Pēteris Vasks “Mūsu kalni” (Our Mountains) Rihards Zaļupe “Sauciens vējā” (A Call in…
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For only two weeks, from April 2 to 16, a recording of “Adam’s Lament” by the legendary Estonian composer Arvo Pärt is available on Sinfonietta Riga web page. The Concert in which State Choir LATVIJA and Sinfonietta Riga under the baton of Māris Sirmais performed was recorded on The Good Friday, April 2, 2021, at…
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We are truly honored for the prestigious World Film Music XX MundoBSO Award in the nomination “Best Song” for film by Dzintars Dreibergs Blizzard of Souls, for the theme Prayer: “Dodi Mieru Mūsu Brāļiem”. We are grateful and satisfied that in such a wide competition the jury has recognized the choral a cappella music as…
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We are pleased to announce that in cooperation with the Center for Cultural Information Systems, the concert of the 23rd International Sacred Music Festival “World Premieres” can now be watched in video format: http://www.diva.lv/Contents/Item/Display/38633 In the concert, which took place on September 2, 2020, in Riga St. Peter’s Church, the world premieres of four composers…
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One year ago, the State Choir LATVIJA traveled to Bochum, Germany, where, within the framework of the Ruhrtriennale interdisciplinary arts festival, it participated in an ambitious production entitled “Evolution”. The production was based on Gyorgy Ligeti’s Requiem. In addition to the State Choir LATVIJA, participants included the Bochum Symphony Orchestra conducted by Steven Sloan, soprano…
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