CML presents the Latvian composer Jānis Petraškevičs in a lecture on his recent works and contemporary Baltic music. Jānis Petraškevičs is a professor at Jazeps Vitols Academy of Riga.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 15:00 | Music Department, Foyer

Jānis Petraškevičs (1978) studied composition with Pēteris Plakidis in Rīga, Sven-David Sandström in Stockholm, and Ole Lützow-Holm in Gothenburg. In 2014 he defended his doctoral thesis in musicology at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. Among his honors are First Prize in the competition of the Association of Baltic Academies of Music in Hamburg (2003, for et la nuit illumina la nuit, Op. 2), the Carl Larsson Scholarship (2006, for a residency in Fontainebleau), the Fellowship of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbertide (2013–14), and the Latvian Grand Music Award for New composition of the year (2014, for Darkroom – Ein Fantasiestück für Ensemble). He has received commissions from the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Nieuw Ensemble, Ensemble Modern, Wigmore Hall, and SWR; in October of 2018 his “Dead Wind” was premiered at the Donaueschinger Musiktage by SWR Synfonieorchester.