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The choir begins a new season every
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has achieved its sound by cultivating its own signature performance style. Both full emotional surrender, a characteristic of amateur singers, as well as the strictest criteria for vocal quality, are of equal importance for the choir. This is expressed in the ellipsis encoded in the choir's name,
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The choir has two vocal coaches: Ansis Sauka un
Jolanta Strikaite-Lapiņa. Ansis Sauka works mostly with the male voices, and Jolanta Strikaite-Lapiņa with the female voices. Jolanta became a vocal coach in 2016, after the retirement of Aina Bajāre, who had been working with the choir since its
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Many of the choir's singers are highly skilled and experienced, a significant share of them also music students. This generally high level of vocal and musical skill helps maintain internal competition among the voice groups, which in turn ensures a high musical quality overall. Despite the
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perfectionism and attention to detail that sometimes goes even beyond professional standards, the choir is essentially amateur, its singers having other full-time occupations. Thus, musical education or previous choir experience is not a prerequisite for singing in
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The aforementioned core values of the choir - emotional surrender and vocal quality - are both tested before every major concert programme, in individual singing examinations called
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Almost all of the choir's original music as well as various choral classics in the choir's repertoire have been recorded in a series of highly praised CDs. The latest of these are
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The choir has also actively worked toward the goal of synthesizing genres and means of expression. Examples of this effort have included scenic and choreographed performances of
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in 2004, 2013 and 2019, the choir performs in various events both in Latvia and worldwide, and collaborates with renowned musicians and orchestras.
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310:(2014), in which several celebrated composers wrote choral miniatures on love, the moon, or arrangements of Latvian folk songs, respectively.
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The second conductor of "Kamēr..." is
Patriks Kārlis Stepe. Former second conductors are Ainārs Rubiķis, Mārtiņš Ozoliņš and Inita Kamarūte.
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Since its inception in 1990, "Kamēr..." has won numerous multiple national and international choir competitions, prizes and awards:
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The choir's managing director is
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