Choral Music Concert. Latvian Youth Choir Kamēr…
The principal conductor and artistic director of the Youth Choir Kamēr… is Jurģis Cābulis
While we are still young, anything is possible…
The choir was founded in 1990 by conductor Māris Sirmais, Since its foundation, the choir has won dozens of diplomas, awards, and trophies at a variety of choral competitions. These include a prize at the Marktoberdorf Chamber Choir Competition in Germany in 1999, three European Grands Prix for Choral Singing in Gorizia (2004) and Arezzo, Italy (2013, 2019), as well as three championship prizes and gold medals at the World Choir Olympics in Xiamen, China, in 2006. Kamēr… has also received many Latvian Great Music Awards and has won the national choir competition a total of six times. Over the last twenty-five years, Kamēr… has achieved its special sound by cultivating its own signature performance style. Both full emotional surrender, a characteristic of amateur singers, as well as the strictest criteria for vocal quality, are of equal importance for the choir. This is expressed in the ellipsis encoded in the choir’s name, Kamēr…, which means “while” in English.
