Baha kamermūzikas festivāla koncerts - Madara Liepiņa (vijole) un Daumants Liepiņš (klavieres)

Daumants Liepins (Daumants Liepiņš)

Daumants Liepiņš is one of the piano world’s most tantalizing new talents and recently topped Pianist magazine’s list of ‘Pianists to Look Out For in 2020’. In 2019, he was awarded the Vendome Prize at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. Daumants will soon appear at the Riga Jurmala Music Festival, the most prestigious classical music festival in the Baltic States, and in recital at the Gasteig in Munich, the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona and the Enescu Festival in Bucharest. He looks forward to concerto appearances in Madrid, Bilbao, Granada and Tenerife.

Daumants has already performed as a soloist with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, the Romanian National Symphony Orchestra, the Georgian National Symphony Orchestra and the Kaunas Symphony Orchestra. He is contracted to record for the Naxos and Steinway labels, tour with orchestras from the Iberian Peninsula and open the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra’s forthcoming season.

In 2017, Daumants won the Young Artist of the Year prize at the Lielā Mūzikas Balva (the Latvian National Grand Music Award), the most prestigious awards ceremony for classical musicians in Latvia. He is firmly established as a core artist in his home country, a territory known for exporting musicians of world-class quality from Andris Nelsons to Baibe Skride. He has been a prizewinner at numerous instrumental competitions, including the Maria Canals Piano Competition (First Prize), the Nordic Piano Competition, the George Enescu International Piano Competition, the James Mottram International Piano Competition and the Tbilisi International Piano Competition (Special Prize for Artistry). He signed to Nordic Artists Management in 2019.

Madara Liepina (Madara Liepiņa)

Madara Liepiņa born in Riga, Latvia from a family of musicians, started playing the
violin at the age of six. From 2012 to 2018 she studied at the Latvian Academy of Music and getting the Masters grade. Since 2017 he is perfecting in Italy with M ° Roberto Muttoni which she assists regular in masterclass project “Maxim Jacobsen”.
As a soloist and with various chamber ensembles he has won numerous competitions, in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Armenia and Italy. The most important results include 1st prize at the Brother and Sister International Competition in St. Petersburg, Russia (2003), 1st prize at the National Violin Competition in Riga (2004 and 2008), 1st prize (2007) the International Competition for young musicians in Sigulda, Latvia, 3rd prize at the International Competition - Festival for chamber music of T. A. Gaidamovich in Magnitogorsk, Russia, 1st
prize (2014), 1st prize (2015), 1st prize (2016) of Competition Best chamber musicians of the Conservatory in Riga, 1st prize (2018) Young artists of Verona, and has recorded live concerts for Radio Classica.
She has participated in masterclasses with Petru Munteanu, Anton Baranov,
Ludmila Yesenina, Magnus Ericsson, Peter Herrestahl, Vadim Gluzman and Kyoko Takezawa. From the 2016 to 2017 the Ingesunds Musikhogskolan of Arvika (Sweden) entrusted her playing a violin by Gaetano Pollastri (1936), currently she is playing a violin by Giovanni Lazzaro.

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