My Journey
THE INNOCENCE OF LIFE - CANBERRA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
A big thank you to Megan Pampling and the Canberra Symphony Orchestra for the opportunity to write a song for my beautiful twin nieces, titled The Innocence of Life.
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THE SPACE BETWEEN STARS - FROM STARS TO SYDNEY HARBOUR
My orchestral piece The Space Between Stars featured as the sonic backdrop of a Sydney Opera House livestream in June 2020 that showed the hauntingly still and empty Sydney Harbour as a result of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions.
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FALLING EMBERS - MOVING RECORDING BY CLAIRE EDWARDES
A big thank you to Claire Edwardes for this moving performance of Falling Embers, recorded at Pheonix Central Park in Sydney, Australia in early 2020.
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4 YEARS WITH THE TASMANIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
The end of 2019 marked the conclusion of a wonderful 4-year collaboration with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, first as an opportunity through the Sydney Conservatorium of Music’s inaugural ‘Composing Women’ program, then as a participant of the TSO Australian Composers’ School.
In this time I composed four works for Symphony Orchestra titled Flight, The Space Between Stars, Melting Glaciers and Lamentation.
I also composed my first ever concertino Glass Ocean which was written for Cor Anglais and Symphony Orchestra, performed by Dinah Woods. Click here to explore the process.
World Latvian Cultural Conference in Latvia (2019)
In September 2019 I was invited to attend the World Federation of Free Latvians ‘World Latvian Cultural Conference’ in Riga, Latvia, as a panelist alongside composers Eriks Esenvalds, Dace Aperane and Juris Kenins.
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MASS CHOIR IN TORONTO - VECMAMINA SVESUMA
In 2018 I was invited to expand my choral work Vecmamina Svesuma (Grandmother in a Foreign Land) to include a large chamber orchestra. This version of the work was commissioned by and performed at the XV Canadian Latvian Song and Dance Festival in Toronto at Maple Leaf Gardens on the 6th July 2019 with the force of a 1,000 person choir.
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