Ave Sol Chamber Choir

Riga Chamber Choir AVE SOL was founded in 1969 by professor Imants Kokars as the choir, whose main task would be to encourage Latvian composers of writing contemporary choral music to extend the Latvian choir’s repertoire. As a result, Latvian choral music afforces with many musical works of high-quality, great number of them devoted particularly to Ave Sol. Under the guidance of Imants Kokars the artists of choir has been sold Latvian choral arts in countless concert tours and festivals throughout the world. Ave Sol has performed together with famous conductors (Saulius Sondeckis, Gintaras Rinkevicius, Oswald Salaberger, Dmitry Kitajenko, Vasily Sinaisky, Dmitry Lissa, etc.) and orchestras (the Leningrad Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of Lithuania National Philharmonic Orchestra, Toijama Academic Orchestra, Orchestra Kammer Sinfonie Bremen, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the London Royal Academy of Music, etc.) in the canorous concert halls and churches (Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, Lincoln Center Hall, New York, St Mark's Cathedral in Venice, Opera of Rouen, Singapore City Hall, the Cologne Cathedral, Bremen Cathedral, Notre Dame de Paris, the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Hall). Starting the year 2000 Uldis Kokars - Imants Kokars son becomes an artistic director and principal conductor of Riga Chamber Choir Ave Sol. The professional settings of the choir stands unchanged - an active concert life is still prosecuting in parallel with active work in studio to record most outstanding Latvian choral music in sound boards (18), audio cassettes and CDs (27 CD - both thematically and as a selections of most outstanding choral music by the Latvian composers) and DVDs. (latest - L. Garuta and A. Eglitis cantata God, Your Land is Burning!). Also, during the period from 1969 to 2003 Chamber Choir Ave Sol recorded 12 CDs of "Latvian Choral Music Anthology" to illustrate 12 volumes of “Latvian Choral Music” scores.