Instruments Organ, piano Genres Classical music Role Organist | Name Aivars Kalejs Website aivarskalejs.webs.com Record label Melodiya | |
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Born April 22, 1951 (age 73)
Riga, Latvia ( 1951-04-22 ) Occupation(s) Organist, composer, pianist, improviser, musicologist Labels Barenreiter, Edition Peters, Formblitz, Eres Edition, Musica Baltica, Melodiya, Riga Recording Company, Latvian Radio, Ritonis Albums Maskats: Chamber Music, Vasks: Mate Saule / 3 Poems by Czeslaw Milosz Similar People Inese Galante, Peteris Vasks, Imants Kokars, Andres Uibo, Janis Sprogis | ||
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Aivars Kalējs (April 22, 1951, Riga, Latvian SSR) is a Latvian composer, organist and pianist.
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- Poulenc concerto for organ strings and timpani aivars kalejs opl pierre cao live
- Career
- Works
- References
Career
He is a concert organist at the Dome Cathedral in Riga and chief organist for the New St. Gertrudes Lutheran Church. He has performed solo recitals and toured with various ensembles throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, included participating in dozens of international organ festivals in the US, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Denmark, and Estonia. Plays in prestigious venues (Notre Dame de Paris), performs classical repertoire, own compositions and improvisations. Performing concerts as a soloist and a great ensemble partner, he successfully gained an international recognition. Up to 2004, he has recorded six solo CDs and participated in 34 CD recordings, including as chief organist for the Riga Dome Boys' Choir.
Aivars Kalējs has worked with such conductors as Andris Nelsons, Māris Sirmais, Andres Mustonen, Pierre Cao, Sigvards Kļava, Normunds Šnē, Imants Kokars and Andris Veismanis. For many years he has playing duos with soprano opera singer Inessa Galante and legendary French horn player Arvīds Klišāns.
His stage partners are such musicians as violinist Gidon Kremer, violist Maxim Novikov, cellist Alexander Kniazev, bass-baritone Egils Siliņš, soprano Inga Kalna, flutist Dita Krenberga, oboe player Uldis Urbāns, contralto Lina Mkrtchyan, such collectives as Kremerata Baltica, State Choir Latvija, Latvian Radio Choir, Chamber Choir AVE SOL and many national symphony orchestras.
Aivars Kalējs has written about 100 opuses of symphonic, organ, piano, chamber and choir music. His pieces such as Toccata on the Chorale "Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr", "Songs of Innocence" and Lux aeterna'' have been played in concerts around the world and have won several composition awards (e.g., symphonic work "Musica Dolente" - dedicated to the victims of the tragic events of September 11, 2001). His works are included in many CD's of the great musicians and collectives (e.g., Iveta Apkalna, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra)
He studied under Ādolfs Skulte, Nikolajs Vanadziņš and Lūcija Garūta.
Works
List of compositions by Aivars Kalējs
Selected works by Aivars Kalējs: