Associated with the Réseau Varèse since 2005

The Arena Festival, started in 2002, has three purposes: promoting Latvian music through a policy of commissioned works, welcoming internationally acclaimed artists, and inviting a well-known composer each year to serve as the leading light of the festival, where his or her works will be performed. The Festival takes place over a period of three weeks each year, in October and November.

RAIMONDS MELDERIS

General Manager

Raimonds Melderis studied modern and baroque violin in Riga, Amsterdam and Brussels and then performed in numerous chamber and orchestral concerts with the Riga Chamber Players, the early music groups Collegium Musicum Riga and Sansara. Since 1996 he has been working in the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra as second violin and became in 2004 general manager of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra. He became in 2005 general manager of Arena.

Raimonds Melderis is a member of the Réseau Varèse since 2005.