"Music Conversations"

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).

Sunday, June 13 at 2pm. Viatore by Pēteris Vasks, Adoration by Florence Beatrice Price and Ave Maria by Maija Einfelde

Sunday, July 4 at 2pm. Suite No I for Organ by Florence Beatrice Price

Sunday, July 18 at 2pm. The Birth of the Saviour, Meditations 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 by Olivier Messiaen

Sunday, August 8 at 2pm. Metamorphosis by Philipp Glass

Sunday, August 22 at 2pm. The Birth of the Saviour, Meditations 6, 7, 8 and 9 by Olivier Messiaen

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:

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