Kaspars Ādamsons

Kaspars Ādamsons is the artistic director of the “Sōla” mixed choir of the Latvian Academy of Culture as well as the Riga Music School symphony orchestra. He is also the principal conductor for the Limbaži choir region and teaches choral conducting at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music.

Having spent more than fifteen seasons with the “Sōla” choir, Ādamsons feels a strong, deep connection with this ensemble, and it holds a special place in his heart. In recent years, however, he has also particularly enjoyed increasing offers to collaborate with orchestras.

Ādamsons has led the Latvian Academy of Music symphony orchestra since 2018. He has also conducted the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonietta Riga and the Orchestra “Riga”. He has served as an assistant conductor for the Latvian National Opera and Ballet productions of Rienzi: Rise and Fall, Three Meetings and Manon Lescaut. In the 2015/2016 season, he conducted Ēriks Ešenvalds’ The Immured, Igor Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress and Jānis Lūsēns’ The Birds’ Opera.

Ādamsons was nominated for the 2014 Latvian Grand Music Award in the best new artist category and won the audience choice award. That year, he debuted on the podium at the Latvian New Music Days festival with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra (LNSO) in a programme featuring new works by composers Georgs Pelēcis, Indra Riše and Pēteris Butāns. Together with the LNSO he has also conducted music by Platons Buravickis and Pēteris Vasks.

In July 2010, at Riga’s open-air venue in Mežaparks, Ādamsons made his debut conducting the combined choir of the Latvian School Youth Song and Dance Festival. In 2013 and 2018 he conducted in the closing concerts of the nationwide Latvian Song and Dance Festival. He has won awards for best conductor at choir competitions in Latvia, Italy, Czech Republic, Poland, etc.

Ādamsons has conducted the Estonian Academy of Music student orchestra, the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, the Gävle Symphony Orchestra, the Umeå Symphony Orchestra, the Dalarna Chamber Orchestra, the Linköping and Gotland wind orchestras and the Royal College of Music in Stockholm symphony and chamber orchestras.

Ādamsons has a master’s degree in choral conducting from the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, where he studied under Andris Veismanis. He has also studied with early music specialist Erik Van Nevel at the Lemmensinstituut Leuven in Belgium. In 2011, Ādamsons graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with a master’s degree in orchestral conducting (Prof. Paul Mägi), and in the summer of 2012, he completed studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where he continued to develop his skills in orchestral conducting under Prof. Daniel Harding.

​LMIC 2020