About
Anna is a Latvian composer working in the areas of chamber music, opera, music for choir and vocal ensembles, instrumental solo pieces, duos, electroacoustic music and sound installations. Fascinated by the most intricate properties of sound, she approaches it as a live organism that embodies a musical form in itself. Her work is often created in close collaboration with musicians, exploring the finest timbral, textural and technical possibilities of each instrument that eventually lead to meticulously designed sonoric architectures. Inspired by the mysteries of nature, she steps with it into a conversation through her music in which she strives to collide disciplined rationality and scientific research with feminine intuition and sensitive plasticity.
In 2019 her Tree Opera. Windthrow for eight voices, chamber ensemble and electronic track premiered in an old-growth forest in Hyrynsalmi, Finland. Drawing inspiration from the most recent scientific research in plants’ neuro-physiology and deep forest ecology, it explores forest as a natural stage to create a unique experience of our interconnectedness with nature at large and forest in particular. The chamber ensemble musicians, Swedish Paetzold contrabass recorder player Anna Petrini and singers from the Grammy Award winning Latvian Radio Choir performed on specially built platforms positioned in trees that has become a trademark of the show.
Works in progress
Opera Voynich Manuscript
Commissioned by The Latvian National Opera and Ballet
Premiering in Autumn 2028
Premiers and selected performances of original works
“Ouroboros” for violin, cello, and electronics. Premiere Contemporary music festival “Baltic Music Days 2026. We Live In Different Times”, Riga, Latvia, Spring 2026.
“Noesis” for synthesizer chamber orchestra. Commissioned by Erica Synths, Riga, Latvia, Autumn 2025.
‘‘Hagneia’’ for traditional and self-made percussion instruments. Commissioned by percussionists Guntars Freibergs and Juris Azers for the artist residency concert “Xenakis. Anna Fisere. Ritual I” , large-scale objects by set designer Mikelis Fisers. Cesis, Latvia, Autumn 2024.
“Voynich Codex” for string orchestra and mezzo-soprano. Premiere “Sinfonia Concertante”, mezzo-soprano Helena Sorokina, Riga, Latvia, Spring 2024.
“GAIA” (Earth) for 24 voices and double bass. Premiere Latvian Radio Choir, Rezekne Latvia, May 2024; Riga, June 2024.
“Mundus invisibilis” (The Invisible World) "Cleanroom" part II for string quartet and electronic track. Riga, Latvia, Copenhagen, Denmark,October 2022. Beijing, China, Spring 2023.
“Hesychia” (Stilness) for Paetzold contrabass recorder, chamber ensemble and electronic track. Akniste, Latvia, Summer 2022.
Opera "The Arctic Maiden" for 7 voices, two percussionists, antler harp and electronic track. Riga, Valmiera, Summer 2022.
“Just A Brief Moment” for mixed choir
Premiere Jazepa Vitola Latvian Academy of Music choir based on the poetry of Vizma Belsevica, Spring 2022
“Carmen Sibyllae” (Song of the Sibyl) for symphonic orchestra and large choir Riga, Latvia, September 2021.
“Mundus invisibilis” (The Invisible World) part I for string quartet and electronic track
Performance “Quartet 121”, New York City, NY, USA, Spring 2021
“Mundus invisibilis” (The Invisible World) part I for string quartet and electronic track
Premiere “Sinfonietta Riga String Quartet”, Riga, Latvia, March 2021
“Tree Opera. Windthrow” for eight voices, chamber ensemble and electronic track
Selected to represent Latvia at the “European Forum on Music 2020” (Climate Action: Music as a Driver for Change) with the full live recording from the premiere in Finland, Bonn, Germany, 2020
“Tree Opera. Windthrow” for eight voices, chamber ensemble and electronic track
Premiere Latvia Radio Choir, chamber ensemble and Anna Petrini (Paetzold contrabass recorder), conductor Arturs Gailis, forest stage and scenography by architect Austris Mailitis and artist Andris Eglītis, Hyrynsalmi, Finland, 2019
“The dense fog covered the earth” for mixed choir
Premiere State Choir Latvia, Latvian Radio Choir and Riga Chamber Choir AVE SOL at the grand finale concert “Latvian Composers for Centenary of Latvia — Latvia 100”, in the National Library of Latvia, Riga, Latvia, 2019
“Artifex Auditions II” for chamber ensemble
Selected by the International Society of Contemporary Music Latvian section to represent Latvia at the World Music Days in Tartu and Tallinn, Estonia, 2019
“Radices” (Roots) for eight voices and electronic track
Recording of Latvian Radio Choir submitted to represent Latvia in the new music competition “Rostrum” in Argentina, 2019
“Tree Opera.” Part 1 for three voices, three percussionists and electronic track
Performance as “Tree Opera. In the city” in a Riga city park as at the opening ceremony of the International Festival of Contemporary Theatre “Homo novus”, Riga, Latvia, September 2018
“Radices” (Roots) for eight voices and electronic track
Premiere Latvian Radio Choir, conductor Kaspars Putnins, at the Jazepa Vitola Latvian Academy of Music Contemporary Music Festival “deciBels”, Riga, Latvia, 2018
“Krummi svaf i kletagja” (The Raven slept on the Cliff) for mezzo soprano
Performance Ieva Parsa at the opening ceremony of the “Latvian Export and Innovation Award”, Riga, Latvia, December 2017
“Neurostenia” for viola and sustain pedal of piano
Performance viola Peteris Trasuns, Salzburg, Austria, November 2017
“Artifex Auditionis I” for chamber ensemble
Premiere at the opening ceremony of the “Skanu Mezs” festival for innovative music, concert hall “Muzikas nams Daile”, Riga, Latvia, October 2017
“Neurostenia” for viola and sustain pedal of piano
Performance viola Anna Lindenbaum of the New Art and Music Ensemble Salzburg “NAMES”, Salzburg, Austria, March 2017
“Duality” electroacoustic composition
Premiere at the Jazepa Vitola Latvian Academy of Music Contemporary Music Festival “deciBels”, Riga, Latvia, 2017
“Tree Opera.” Part 1 for three voices, three percussionists and electronic track
Premiere at the Alternative Chamber Music Festival “Sansusi”, Akniste, Latvia, 2016
“Am Moor” (At the Moor) for soprano, The B-Series self-made square and trumpet, Krummi svaf i kletagja (The Raven slept on the Cliff) for mezzo soprano, Amanita Muscaria (Fly agaric) for chamber ensemble, Neurostenia for viola and sustain pedal of piano
Concert at opening gala of the young artists exhibition “Spriedze” - jaunie Latvijas gleznieciba III" (Tension - the young ones in Latvian painting III), Latvian National Museum of Art exhibition hall “Arsenals”, Riga, Latvia, May 2016
Sound installations
For Katrina Neiburga's installation “The Memory Hut” and the film “The Great Expedition”, presented as part of the European Capital of Culture 2024, Austria, 2024.
For Danish artist Carl Emil Carlsen's virtual reality exhibition “Intangible”, premiered at RIXC Gallery (Riga, 2023) as part of the EMAP residency programme. The exhibition later toured several European venues (Paris, Copenhagen, Berlin, Athens, Thessaloniki) and received the CPH Inter Award 2024.
Performance of Movements I and II from the string quartet “Mundus invisibilis” for a 36-loudspeaker sound dome at the SWRL Spatial Sound and Science Festival “Complementary Contradictions”, Riga, November 2023.
For the sculpture “Semina futuri” (Seeds of Future) by Linda Boļšakova at the contemporary art festival Sculpture Quadrennial Riga 2020 “Wonders of Democracy”, Riga, Latvia, October 2020
SMART SOUNDING FOREST Electronic sound installation for the Latvian pavilion designed by architect Austris Mailītis at the World Expo 2020 Competition, Dubai, UAE, 2019
For audiovisual installation “Matter. Ritual” at “Zirgu pasts” the theatre house of the Latvian Academy of Culture during the annual modern culture forum “White Night”, Riga, Latvia, 2019
For installation “Intermediate. Vibration” at “Zirgu pasts” the theatre house of the Latvian Academy of Culture during the annual modern culture forum “White Night”, Riga, Latvia, 2018
For the solo exhibition “The Dark Night of The Soul” of the visual artist Ata Jakobsona, Riga, Latvia, 2017
Electronic sounds installation for 52 speakers in a botanical garden for “European Capitals of Culture”, Aarhus, Denmark, 2017
Overview of all original work
Ouroboros (2026) for violin, cello, and electronics.
Noesis (2025) for synthesizer chamber orchestra.
Hagneia (2024) for traditional and self-made percussion instruments.
Voynich Codex (2024) for string orchestra and mezzo-soprano.
GAIA (2024) for 24 voices and double bass.
Carmen Sibyllae (2023) recreated fragments for two sopranos, two tenors, and harp.
Mundus invisibilis (The Invisible world) part II Cleanroom (2023) for string quartet and electronic track.
“Hesychia” Paetzold (2022) for contrabass recorder, chamber ensemble and electronic track.
Opera "Frigid" (2022) for 7 voices, two percussionists, antler harp and electronic track.
Carmen Sibyllae (2021) for symphonic orchestra and large choir.
Just A Brief Moment (2020) for mixed choir.
Mundus invisibilis(The Invisible World) part I (2020) for string quartet and electronic track.
Tree Opera. Windthrow (2019) for eight voices, chamber ensemble and electronic track.
Radices (Roots) (2019) for eight voices and electronic track.
The dense fog covered the earth (2018) for mixed choir.
Artifex Auditions II (2017) for chamber ensemble.
Krummi svaf i kletagja (The Raven slept on the Cliff) (2017) for mezzo soprano.
Neurostenia (2017) for viola and sustain pedal of piano.
Duality (2017) electroacoustic composition.
Tree Opera. Part 1 (2016) for three voices, three percussionists and electronic track Artifex Auditionis I (2016) for chamber ensemble.
Am Moor (At the Moor) (2015) for soprano.
The B-Series (2015) for selfmade square and trumpet.