Gundega Smite Interview - Composer #vienabalsi

Support us on paypal.me/vienabalsiYouTube VersionThis content has been created with the help of the Culture Fonds of American Latvian Association.Gundega Šmite is an internationally acclaimed composer. She has collaborated with Latvian, Swedish, Berlin Radio choirs, BBC Singers, Stockholm saxophone quartet, Ensemble Lucilin (Belgium), BIT20 (Norway), Dissonart ensemble (Greece) among others. He music is regularly performed in Latvia and abroad, including festivals Klangspuren, London Ear, ISCM World Music Days. Gundega Šmite has been a lecturer at Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Music Academy from 2008. In 2013 she acquired doctoral degree (PhD) in Musicology for her thesis that concerns music and text relationship in the modern Latvian choral music. Šmite has been a chairwoman of the Latvian Composers’ Union (2009 -2012). As well, she has been an artistic director of New Music festival “Arena”.- editorial content, anchor, photo, recording, video editing Žils Deless-Vēliņš- production Māra Delesa-Vēliņa▶ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER ◀All content falls under fair use: any copying of copyrighted material is done for a limited, educational and “transformative” purpose, such as to comment upon, criticize, or parody a copyrighted work. Such uses can be done without permission from the copyright owner.