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Live recording of Fantasia & Toccata | Latvia

Please listen to a live recording of my most recent piece performed in Riga by LNSO Double Bass Orchestra conducted by Jānis Stafeckis. Fantasia & Toccata was composed in 2020 amidst the worldwide Covid19 pandemic and under tremendously stressful conditions in my personal life. It has been a piece of luck that in that particular circumstance such an extraordinary and weird formation of an ensemble was given in my hands. No other medium could express better the turmoil I was going through the months this piece was composed. 

Please mind using a pair of speakers or headphones to listen to this music due to its low-frequency content.

Live recording (Radio 3) of the premiere at Great Guild Hall, Riga 08.10.2020
Performers: LNSO double bass orchestra (Oskars Bokanovs, Toms Timofejevs, Andris Veinbergs, Dāvis Vilks, Alise Broka, Kristaps Pētersons, Jurģis Klotiņš, Gustavs Vilsons, Viktors Stankēvičs, Raivo Ozols, Viktors Veļičko, Haralds Arnis, Undīne Berga, Mārcis Lipskis, Dzintars Sabļins, Raivis Misjuns)

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Clarinet Concerto premiere in Rīga by Guntis Kuzma | Latvia

Concerto for Clarinet, String Orchestra and Electronics is getting its premiere at Latvia on the 12th of March by Sinfonia Concertante and Guntis Kuzma who is going to be both the soloist and conductor! The piece was commissioned by JVLMA Mūsdienu Mūzikas Festivāls deciBels, a festival on Contemporary Music in Latvia.

Premiere of Sculpture by Chimera String Orchestra York | UK

Sculpture for String Orchestra scattered within the audience got its first performance on the 20th of June 2008. The Chimera Ensemble played the piece under the direction of Maria Leach at the concert hall Jack Lyons in the University of York, UK. The piece is dedicated to my daughter Sophie who was born just the day before the concert! A recording of the piece here