The Foundation has granted more than 140 free concert tickets to doctors, students and educators
The Andrejs Žagars Culture Support and Development Foundation was established to promote and develop high quality cultural projects with a particular focus on music and the arts. The foundation aims to attract funding from the State, philanthropists, and European funds. The purpose of the Foundation is to emerge cultural artefacts and become viable in the long-term.
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Musicians have participated in events organised by the Andrejs Žagars Foundation
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Large-scale music and arts events
Creation and development of both local and international cultural projects with a long-term focus.
Creation and long-term development of the international Riga Vocalists Competition.
Creation and development of educational programmes for musicians and artists – masterclasses, academy for young vocalists, conferences, seminars, creative laboratories, and camps with the aim of professional development of musicians, and their integration into the inter-ethnic context.
Creation of large-scale music events, including festivals in Riga as well as in the regions of Latvia.
Promotion of participation of Latvian musicians and artists in internationally renowned cultural projects in Europe and worldwide.
Creation of concerts, festivals and other events that promote public education in the cultural context
Promotion of the integration of different cultural sectors.
12 projects in 10 years
The Andrejs Žagars Culture Support and Development Foundation was founded in 2014 and started its activities with the touring performances of the second joint work of the renowned director, theatre and audio-visual artist Robert Wilson and Mikhail Baryshnikov – the mono-performance Letter to a Man – at the Latvian National Opera. This was followed by a concert featuring the internationally acclaimed singer Kristīne Opolais in Latvia. With the support of the Foundation, Latvia has hosted some of Europe’s greatest ballet dancers and choreographers as well as one of the world’s greatest music ensembles – the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under the direction of Andris Nelsons. The work of the Foundation is currently being continued by friends and associates of Andrejs.
Check out the music and cultural events in Latvia and abroad
Katru gadu Fonds ar lepnumu piedāvā augstas kvalitātes mūzikas notikumus, no kuriem katrs klausītājiem piedāvā unikālu un bagātinošu pieredzi. Īpaši nozīmīgs Fonda darbībā ir koncerts ir Andrejam Žagaram veltītais koncerts “Draugi -Andrejam Žagaram”. Šis īpašais notikums pulcē kopā cienījamus mūziķus no visas pasaules, radot aizraujošu un neaizmirstamu muzikālu pieredzi. Godinot Žagara mantojumu un ieguldījumu Latvijas kultūras bagātināšanā, koncerts kalpo kā apliecinājums viņa paliekošajai ietekmei uz Latvijas kultūras ainavu.
The team
Get to know the people who work every day to develop the Foundation
“The main tasks of the Andrejs Žagars Foundation are the same as those to which Andrejs dedicated his life. To introduce the Latvian public to the world’s great cultural treasures, paying special attention to the new, the open, the qualitative – without losing touch with classical values.To help Latvia’s young talents to forge their own mastery, knowing that excellent education and professionalism are the best investment in the future for all of us.”
Graduate of the Latvian State Conservatoire, four-time winner of the Great Music Award, multiple winner and nominee of the Latvian Theatre Award Spēlmaņu nakts (Players’ Night). His instrumental and vocal compositions have been performed in various countries around the world. Since 2013 he has been the Programme Director of the State-owned company Latvijas koncerti SIA.
“Andrejs had set high goals for the Foundation, which are challenging enough in the absence of his strong personality, but it was these goals and the desire not to lose what Andrejs had started that made us decide to continue the Foundation’s activities and strive to realise them.”
Chief Costume Designer of the Latvian National Opera, winner of many awards, including the Latvian Theatre Award four times, twice the Great Music Award. She graduated from the Jānis Rozentāls Riga Art Secondary School as a painter and later studied at the Textile Art Department of the Art Academy of Latvia. She was nominated as Costume Designer in the magazine Opernwelt (Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades). She has also received five Players’ Night awards, five times the Great Music Award.
“The aim of establishing the Foundation together with Andrejs, with whom I worked for many years at the Latvian National Opera, was to continue the work in the genre of classical music. We wanted to educate and introduce the Latvian public to internationally renowned, modern, young and talented classical musicians.”
Normunds holds a Master’s degree in Social Sciences from the Faculty of Management and Economics of the University of Latvia. From 1999 to 2013 he was the Finance Director at the Latvian National Opera and Ballet. In 2014, together with Andrejs Žagars, he founded, and actively managed, the Andrejs Žagars Cultural Development Foundation.
Since 2020, he holds the position of Finance Director and Procurator at Dailes Theatre.