Kaspars Putniņš

Conductor Kaspars Putniņš has been one of the most visible figures in the resurgence of choral music in the Baltic countries. He has been the permanent conductor of the Latvian Radio Choir since 1994; his recording debut came in 2002 with that group on a recording of Peteris Vasks' Māte Saule. In 2014, he added the artistic directorship and the chief conductor post of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir to those responsibilities. He has also worked with western European youth choirs, leading performances and giving master classes to young conductors. Putniņš has performed choral music from periods dating back to the Renaissance, but he has specialized in the commissioning and realization of new choral music, especially from Baltic and Nordic composers. In 2022, Putniņš released a pair of recordings; one featured Rachmaninov's Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, and the other was Ülo Krigul: Liquid Turns.