Artists:
ganavya, vocals
Latvian Radio Choir
Conductor Sigvards Kļava
ganavya
Hailed as “among modern music’s most compelling vocalists” (Wall Street Journal) “extraordinary” (DownBeat) and “most enchanting” (NPR), ganavya is a transdisciplinary scholar, vocalist, word-craftswoman, jalatarangam artist, and double-bassist.
ganavya regularly performs in the most prestigious concert halls in the USA, Great Britain, France and other countries.
Recent credits include: solo vocalist and lead researcher with Esperanza Spalding on the 2022 “Best Jazz Vocal” Grammy award winning album “Songwrights Apothecary Lab” (2021), writer/singer of first Tamil lyrics to win a Latin Grammy award (2020), album and touring solo vocalist on the Quincy Jones’ produced Tocororo which hit #1 in jazz charts.
Her fellowships for music composition include Camargo Foundation, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, where she became the youngest composer to have received the honor in 2021. In 2022, she was a Scholar-In-Residence at Cynthia Mitchell Center for the Arts in the University of Houston.
One of her most recent albums is “Daughter of a Temple”, co-produced by Esperanza Spalding and “the body of reality” ft. ganavya (composition, singer) and Leo Genovese (piano) produced by Peter Sellars and Rajna Swaminathan.
She has degrees in music from Berklee College of Music (contemporary performance), University of California, Los Angeles (ethnomusicology) and Harvard University (Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry).
Latvian Radio Choir
“This chorus’s expertise in music pushes voices to extremes, from ethereal high tones to uncannily sustained bass drones.” (New York Times)
The Latvian Radio Choir is a unique, award-winning collective of professional singers that offers an extraordinarily wide repertoire to its audience, allowing the exploration of early music, and excitedly diving into contemporary composers’ musical calembours.
The Latvian Radio Choir participated in the recording of the album of Arvo Pärt’s “Adam’s Lament” that received the prestigious Grammy music award. In the autumn of 2023, the LRC won the prestigious British Gramophone Choral Award for their recording “John Cage. Choral Works”.
The choir is a repeating winner of the highest national award for achievements in professional music in Latvia – the Grand Music Award, as well as the winner of the Republic of Latvia Cabinet of Ministers Award.
