Choir

Choir management

Kaspars Ādamsons

Conductor, artistic director

Art. D. Kaspars Ādamsons is the artistic director of the Latvian Academy of Culture (LKA) mixed choir “Sōla,” conductor of the Latvian National Opera and Ballet, and a docent in the JVLMA Choral Conducting Department. He is also a chief conductor at the Latvian Song and Dance Festival and the Latvian School Youth Song and Dance Festival.

Kaspars collaborates with Latvia’s leading professional orchestras and prepares concert programs with orchestras and choirs throughout Europe. He leads conducting masterclasses and serves as a jury member in national and international conducting competitions.

He holds a professional doctorate in arts (a joint program of Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, the Latvian Academy of Culture, and the Art Academy of Latvia), a master’s degree in music – orchestral conducting (from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre), and a master’s degree in music – choral conducting (from the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music). Alongside his active studies, Kaspars has furthered his expertise under early music specialist Prof. Erik van Nevel at the Leuven Conservatory in Belgium (Lemmensinstituut Leuven) and honed his orchestral conducting skills at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm (Kungliga Musikhögskolan) under the world-renowned conductor Daniel Harding.

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Jēkabs Bernāts

Conductor

Jēkabs Bernāts (born in 2001) is a singer in Latvian Radio choir and a conductor in choir “Sōla” since 2025. He has studied in Pāvuls Jurjāns music school and State Gymnasium Āgenskalns.

For five years he has been the project manager of Riga Chamberchoir “Ave Sol”, but right now is focused on acquiring his Master’s degree in composition, studying in Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. In 2024 Bernāts has received his first Choral music award in the category “New composition of the year”.

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Roberta Kumsāre

Conductor

Roberta Kumsāre (b. 2004) began her music education in 2011 at the Riga Cathedral Choir
School. In 2024, she graduated from the Department of Choral Conducting under the
guidance of Jurģis Cābulis. During her studies, Roberta performed extensively both in Latvia
and abroad as a member of the Riga Cathedral Girls’ Choir Tiara and the Riga Cathedral
Choir School Mixed Choir. Since 2024, she has been studying Choral Conducting at the
Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music in the class of Associate Professor Andris
Veismanis.

Since 2022, Roberta has served as conductor of the Cēsis Mixed Choir Beverīna, and since
2025 – as the artistic director of the Cēsis Mixed Choir Vidzeme. As a conductor, she has
achieved recognition in several competitions, including the Jonas Aleksa Young Choral
Conductors Competition (2022), the 4th Imants Kokars International Choral Conductors
Competition (2022), where she won third prize, and the Latvian National Conducting
Competition (2023), where she received first prize. In 2023, Roberta made her debut at the
XXVII Latvian Song and Dance Festival, conducting the Latvian Conductors’ Men’s Choir.
A laureate of several academic singing competitions, Roberta has also earned high
distinctions as a flautist in international competitions in Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Sweden,
and Italy. As a soloist, she has appeared in productions at the Latvian National Opera and in
various concert performances.

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Jānis Strazdiņš

Vocal coach

Jānis Strazdiņš (born in 1984) has, throughout his musical career as a singer and soloist, performed with the Riga Cathedral Boys Choir, the vocal group “Cosmos”, the Latvian Radio Choir, and other choirs and vocal ensembles in Latvia, as well as with the Swedish a cappella group “The Real Group”.

As a soloist, he has collaborated with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, the Latvian Radio Big Band, “Sinfonietta Rīga”, and other Latvian musicians. Currently, Jānis is a member of the a cappella group “Latvian Voices” and also performs with the musical collective “Džezbaroks” (“Jazzbaroque”).

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