Youth Choir Kamer...

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Youth Choir "Kamēr..." (Riga, Latvia) A youthful passion combined with highly refined vocal skills and sensuous musicality — these are the qualities that best define the youth choir Kamēr..., founded in 1990 by conductor Māris Sirmais (1969), who still leads the choir today. Jānis Liepiņš (1988) has served as the choir’s second conductor since 2006, and Aina Bajāre and Ansis Sauka have worked as the choir’s vocal coaches for many years. Since foundation, the choir has won dozens of diplomas, cups, and trophies in various choral competitions, and each award has brought the choir one step higher and closer to the musical ideals that they are striving to reach. These include a prize at the Marktoberdorf chamber choir competition in Germany in 1999, the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing in Gorizia, Italy, in 2004, as well as three championship prizes and gold medals at the World Choir Olympics in Xianmen, China, in 2006. In addition, Kamēr... has twice received the highest honour in Latvian music — the Latvian Great Music Award, in 2000 and 2005. The choir has also won the choir battles, or national choir competition, at the Latvian Song and Dance Festival a total of three times, in 1998, 2003, and 2008. In recent years Kamēr... has worked with programs specially commissioned for the choir. In this way, the choir has developed a unique repertoire as well as enhanced the world’s body of a capella choral music with new works by remarkable composers. The choir’s biggest proj

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