"Music Conversations"

317 East 8th Street,Davis CA 95616

15 May, 2022

Description

Music Conversations with Lauma Akmene. Hosted by Davis Lutheran Church. Performances on the Organ and Piano by Lauma Akmene Davis Lutheran Church invites to “Music Conversations” music series performed by Lauma Akmene (organ and piano). "Music Conversations" concert series March 6 at 3pm, Celebrating International Women's Day. Program: Florence Beatrice Price, Jeanne Demessieux, Clara Schumann. Lauma Akmene (organ) April 3 at 3pm, Organ concert. Program: Johann Sebastian Bach, Aivars Kalējs, Pēteris Vasks. Lauma Akmene (organ). May 15 at 3 pm, Soprano Jennifer Sherrill and Lauma Akmene, piano. Your freewill offering is gladly accepted. Lauma studied organ with Hans-Ola Ericsson at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University in Montreal and theology and church music at the Luther Academy in Riga. Lauma also studied organ and piano at the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Lauma has attended masterclasses in performance, improvisation and choral conducting with well-known teachers in Europe and Canada (e.g. Olivier Latry, Jürgen Essl and James O'Donnell). Lauma has participated in numerous concert series and festivals in Europe and Canada: including “XV Latvian Festival of Song and Dance in Canada” in Toronto. Lauma has commissioned and premiered compositions by the Latvian composers Vineta Līce and Oskars Herliņš. Lauma has been working in church for 10 years. To watch Lauma Akmene perform selections from La Nativité du Seigneur (The Birth of the Saviour) by Olivier Messiaen, go to Davis Lutheran's YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/UXrrt6ecBpw