31 Notable alumni of
Jazepa Vitola Latvian Academy of Music
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The Jazepa Vitola Latvian Academy of Music is 905th in the world, 319th in Europe, and 2nd in Latvia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 31 notable alumni from the Jazepa Vitola Latvian Academy of Music sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Elīna Garanča
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- opera singer
- Biography
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Elīna Garanča is a Latvian mezzo-soprano. She began to study singing in her hometown of Riga in 1996 and continued her studies in Vienna and in the United States. By 1999 she had won first place in the Mirjam Helin Singing Competition in Helsinki and had begun a career in Europe. Worldwide engagements followed her 2003 Salzburg Festival appearances.
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Raimonds Pauls
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- composer
- Biography
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Ojārs Raimonds Pauls is a Latvian composer and a pianist who is well known in Latvia, Russia, post-Soviet countries and worldwide. He was the Minister of Culture of Latvia from 1988 to 1993.
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Gidon Kremer
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- conductorviolinist
- Biography
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Gidon Kremer is a Latvian classical violinist, artistic director, and founder of Kremerata Baltica.
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Ivars Kalniņš
- Enrolled in the Jazepa Vitola Latvian Academy of Music
- Studied in 1974
- Occupations
- politicianactor
- Biography
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Ivars Edmunds Kalniņš is a Latvian film and television actor. He graduated in 1974 from the Jāzeps Vītols Theatre Department of the Latvian Conservatory. He had already started acting however in 1972 at the Artistic Academic Theatre of J. Rainis. Kalniņš has performed in both Latvian language and Russian language films and television shows.
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Pēteris Vasks
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- composer
- Biography
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Pēteris Vasks is a Latvian composer.
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Kristīne Opolais
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- opera singer
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Kristīne Opolais is a Latvian operatic soprano.
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Imants Kalniņš
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- songwritertranslatorcomposerpolitician
- Biography
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Imants Kalniņš is a Latvian composer, musician and politician. Having studied classical and choral music, he has written seven symphonies, several operas (including the first rock opera in the USSR, Ei, jūs tur! ), oratorios, cantatas, choir songs, a lot of movie and theater music. However, he is generally best known for his rock songs and is to be considered the first composer of intellectual rock music in Latvia. In 2021, Kalniņš received the Grand Music Award for lifetime achievement.
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Oleg Kagan
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- musicianviolinist
- Biography
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Oleg Moiseyevich Kagan was a Soviet violinist, known for his chamber collaborations with such musicians as pianist Sviatoslav Richter and cellist Natalia Gutman, his wife. He was also a significant proponent of modern music, in particular Berg's Violin Concerto. Several recently released concert recordings have added to his posthumous reputation.
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Iveta Apkalna
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- pianistorganist
- Biography
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Iveta Apkalna is a Latvian organist and pianist.
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Jānis Streičs
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- actorfilm directorscreenwriter
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Jānis Streičs is a Soviet/Latvian film director. Streičs' 1991 comedy film The Child of Man was runner-up for the Chicago International Children's Film Festival Rights of the Child Award in 1994. It had previously been Latvia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards, but did not make the shortlist.
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Inese Galante
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- opera singer
- Biography
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Inese Galante is a Latvian soprano opera singer. Galante is known for a great beauty of tone, nuanced pianissimos and sensitive command of dynamics and colour. Her performance of Vladimir Vavilov's Ave Maria (often attributed to Giulio Caccini), from her "Debut" album (1995) attracted worldwide interest in the piece.
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Andrejs Žagars
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- actoropera directorpolitician
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Andrejs Žagars was a Latvian actor, opera director, entrepreneur and politician. He was head of the Latvian National Opera from 1996 to 2013. His brother Juris Žagars also is an actor and since 2019 director of Riga Daile Theater.
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Daniels Pavļuts
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- politician
- Biography
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Daniels Pavļuts is a Latvian politician and the current Minister for Health of Latvia since January, 2021. He was formerly the Minister for Economics of Latvia, a position he served in from 2011 until 2014. In addition to his political and business career, he is a concert pianist.
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Mārtiņš Brauns
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- musiciancomposer
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Mārtiņš Brauns was a Latvian composer and musician.
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Lūcija Garūta
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- pianistmusicianpoetmusic teachercomposer
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Lūcija Garūta was a Latvian pianist, poet and composer. She is mostly known for composing the cantata Dievs, Tava zeme deg! in 1943.
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Gundars Āboliņš
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- actor
- Biography
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Gundars Āboliņš is a Latvian actor. He worked for the New Riga Theatre in Riga, having formerly worked for the Dailes Theatre. He was awarded the Spēlmaņu nakts gada aktieris award (best actor) in 2006.
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Gido Kokars
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- conductor
- Biography
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Gido Kokars was a Latvian conductor. He was the twin brother of Imants Kokars, also a conductor.
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Helga Dancberga
- Enrolled in the Jazepa Vitola Latvian Academy of Music
- Studied in 1984
- Occupations
- film actoractor
- Biography
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Helga Dancberga was a Soviet then Latvian actor. She was the director of the Department of Culture and Arts at the Latvian Conservatoire.
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Olga Jegunova
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- pianistmusician
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Olga Jegunova is a Latvian classical pianist, born in Šiauliai, Lithuania (then Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic), and now living in London.
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Uģis Prauliņš
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- pianistmusiciancomposer
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Uģis Prauliņš is a Latvian composer whose choral work Missa Rigensis (Riga Mass) was recorded by the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, the Riga Cathedral Boys Choir, Youth Choir BALSIS and has been performed in several locations around the world, amongst those Canada, France, England.
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Vilis Daudziņš
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- television actoractor
- Biography
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Vilis Daudziņš is a Latvian actor. In the theatre, he has appeared in several plays of Alvis Hermanis and Māra Ķimele, produced in New Riga Theatre. He has also taken part in several films.
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Jevgenija Lisicina
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- organist
- Biography
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Jevgenija Lisicina, also spelled Eugenia Lissitsyna or Jewgenia Lisitzina (Russian: Евгения Лисицына, born on November 11, 1942, in Stupino, Russia) is a Latvian organist of Russian descent.
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Sergejs Jēgers
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- opera singer
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Sergejs Jēgers is a Latvian countertenor.
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Nauris Puntulis
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- politiciansinger
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Nauris Puntulis is a Latvian politician. As of 8 July 2019, he serves as Minister of Culture in the Kariņš cabinet. He is affiliated with the National Alliance party. He was appointed for his second term as Culture Minister in 2022. Since 14 December 2022 he has served in the Kariņš 2nd cabinet.
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Kārlis Lācis
- Enrolled in the Jazepa Vitola Latvian Academy of Music
- Studied in 2005
- Occupations
- pianistcomposerrecord producer
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Kārlis Lācis is a Latvian contemporary composer. Along with the scores for theatre productions, movies, and musical arrangements, a large part of his work is dedicated to vocal and choral music, symphonic, and instrumental compositions, including "Te Deum" (2014) with the State Choir Latvija, and double concerto for flute, oboe and orchestra "42.195" (2014) with Liepaja symphony orchestra. "Rorate coeli" (2014) for soprano, saxophone and organ and the first symphony "Via Crucis" premiered on April 3, 2015 with Latvian National symphony orchestra. Kārlis was one of the jury members for 2014 World choir games while Latvian capital Riga was the European capital of culture. His creative contribution includes musicals staged in Liepāja theatre and Dailes theatre "Pūt vējiņi" (2011) and "Oņēgins" (2013), both rewarded with the highest annual theater award for the best music author.
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Pauls Putniņš
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- journalistplaywrightwriterpolitician
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Pauls Putniņš was a Latvian playwright, journalist and politician.
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Ints Dālderis
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- politicianmusician
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Ints Dālderis is a Latvian clarinetist and politician of initially the People's Party, then New Era Party, then Unity and finally Movement For!. He was Minister of Culture of Latvia from March 12, 2009 to November 3, 2010.
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Edgars Račevskis
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- conductor
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Edgars Račevskis was a Latvian conductor.
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Agris Daņiļevičs
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- dancer
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Agris Daņiļevičs is a Latvian choreographer and dance teacher.
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Jānis Liepiņš
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- conductor
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Jānis Liepiņš is a Latvian conductor. Since 2014 he has been the conductor at the Latvian National Opera and Ballet (LNO). For the LNO, he has conducted productions of Il trovatore (2014), Le Villi and Gianni Schicchi (2015), Eugene Onegin (2016), Romeo and Juliet (2014), Scheherazade And Her Tales (2016), and La Bayadère (2012), and was both the conductor and musical director for the ballet Raymonda (2015) and operetta Die Fledermaus (2015).
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Inese Laizāne
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- politicianactor
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Inese Laizāne is a Latvian actress and politician.
