Ratniece, Santa (1977)
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Santa Ratniece was born on March
22, 1977 in Jelgava. She studied piano at the Valmiera School of
Music. In 1996, she finished the Emīls Dārziņš College of Music
specializing in music theory and composition with composer Imants
Zemzaris. In 2000, she graduated the J. Vītols Latvian Academy of
Music, specializing in musicology, and in 2002, specializing in
composition with Romualds Kalsons. In the spring of 2002, as part
of the program Socrates Erasmus, she
studied in Enschede in the Netherlands with the English composer
David Rowland.
In 2002, she began master’s studies at the Estonian Academy
of Music and Theatre with Estonian composer Helena Tulve. In 2007
she received her Master’s Degree in arts, and the title of her
Master’s Degree thesis was Claude Vivier’s Shiraz
for Piano: Time and Pitch Structure.
In 2006, Santa Ratniece became a member of the Latvian
Composers’ Union.
Music by Santa Ratniece has been performed by the
Latvian Radio Choir, Altera
Veritas, Ensemble NOVE,
string quartet Diference, Sinfonietta
Rīga (Latvia), NYYD
Ensemble,
Ensemble Resonabilis, pianist Kadri-Ann
Sumera, trombonist Andres Kontus, singer Iris Oja (Estonia),
Deutsch-Skandinavische Jugend-Philharmonie,
Ensemble Reflexion
K (Germany), Arditti
Quartet, Charles Matthews
(England), Nederlands
Kamerkoor (The Netherlands),
Quatuor Molinari (Canada), Sydney
Symphony Fellows (Australia) and
others.
Santa Ratniece’s music has been performed at the
festivals Arēna, Skaņu mežs (Sound Forest), Latvian
New Music Days, Solaris, Introvert Music
festival (Latvia), Estonian Music
Days, Autumn Festival, Lepo Sumera
festival (Estonia), Présences 2006, Tenso
Days Paris 2007
(France), Klangspuren 2006
(Austria), The Baltic Sea
festival (Sweden), MusiMars (Canada), ISCM
World Music
Days 2008, GAIDA 2009
(Lithuania), Tenso Dagen
Amsterdam 2009 (The Netherlands), 2010
ISCM World New Music days
Sydney (Australia), La Biennale di
Venezia 2010 (Italy), Usedomer
Music festival 2010 (Germany) and in various
concerts in Russia, Switzerland, Argentine, Belgium, and
elsewhere.
