Jānis Porietis & Ilze Reine
Biography Jānis Porietis & Ilze Reine
Jānis Porietis
Born and raised in Riga, the capital of Latvia - one of the small, but beautiful Baltic States. If you haven't been there yet then it is truly a must see place, if not for the beautiful architecture that has survived through centuries then definitely for the cultural aspects.
I started playing the trumpet when I was about 10 years old and haven't stopped since. It was my first teacher Pēteris Kaldre who taught me the first steps of trumpet. Later I studied with Ēriks Berzinskis and Maija Lāce, as well as Reijer Dorresteijn in Holland and Pasi Pirinen in Finland. Eventually I graduated my first teacher’s Pēteris Kaldre trumpet class in the Latvian Music Academy. After that I had the opportunity to study with Steve Leisring at the University of Kansas were I received my Doctorate of Musical Arts.
Ilze Reine
was born in 1970 in the city of Smiltene, Latvia. She attended the piano class at the Cēsis College of Music, and, at the same time, studied organ with Lelde Krastiņa. She continued her organ studies at the Latvian Academy of Music with Larisa Bulava (bachelor’s degree in 1997, Master's degree in 1999), at the Hochschule für Kirchenmusik (Herford, Germany), and attended master classes held by J. Laukwik, H.Vogel, B. van Oosten and E.Kooiman. Ilze Reine has given concerts in Latvia, Germany and Hungary. Simultaneously with her studies, Ilze Reine has worked as an organist of the Evangelic Lutheran parish in Rauna, but since 1997, she is the organist and the church choir leader of the St. John's Church in Riga, being also responsible for the musical life of the parish.
