Aigars Reinis

AIGARS REINIS is the organist and music director at Riga Cathedral. He is also a professional singer in early music ensembles and choirs. He has been described by musicologist and critic Orests Silabriedis as “one of Latvia’s most artistically interesting organists”. Reinis has been a singer and soloist with the Latvian Radio Choir as well as a member of the Schola Cantorum Riga and Ars Antiqua Riga vocal ensembles. He has also conducted the Bank of Latvia Choir. Reinis has taken part in the international organ competitions in Lahti (Finland) and Erfurt (Germany). For more than a decade, he served as the organist at St. Anne’s Church in Jelgava, and from 2013 to 2019 he was the principal organist at the St. Gertrude Old Church in Riga. Reinis has collaborated with such professional ensembles as Sinfonia Concertante, the State Academic Choir “Latvija” and the Ave Sol chamber choir; conductors Māris Sirmais, Sigvards Kļava and Guntis Kuzma; soloists Ēriks Kiršfelds, Marta Spārniņa, Elīna Endzele, Aigars Raumanis, Rogério Gonçalves and others. Reinis studied organ performance under Prof. Tālivaldis Deksnis at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, earning a master’s degree in 2001. He has further studied under Ludger Lohmann, Hans-Ola Ericsson and Hans Hellsten and has participated in the International Organ Academy in Uppland and elsewhere. Reinis has performed throughout Europe and in the United States, Canada and Japan. He received the Latvian Grand Music Award in 2019 for outstanding work in an ensemble and in 2021 for outstanding performance throughout the year.

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