About

Aija Reke is a violinist, chamber musician and pedagogue. She graduated Boston University (MM, 2015), USA and Rotterdam Conservatory (BM, 2013) in the Netherlands. Winner of “Solo Bach Competition” at Boston University (2014), a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, American National Music Honor Society since 2015 and a recipient of the Boston Latvian Cultural Heritage award (2014). She has performed extensively in Europe and North America as a soloist, chamber musician and in numerous orchestras. Aija is a founding member of “Theia Piano Trio”, which toured in the USA. She is a violinist in “Baltic Duo” with notable Latvian flutist Ilona Kudina. The duo focuses on rare repertoire for flute and violin and popularises Latvian chamber music. As a passionate pedagogue, she has taught in “El Sistema” program in the USA. Her second instrument is baroque violin. Aija has performed with the baroque orchestra “Collegium Musicum” at the University of Toronto (Canada) among others. Her collaboration with several composers led to multiple world premieres, including microtonal “Musings” for violin solo by Lara Poe. Composer Lara Poe wrote a Violin Concerto for Aija Reke, which will premiere in the 2017/2018 concert season.

Baltic Duo

Aija Reke - violin, Ilona Kudina - flute
The “Baltic Duo” was founded in 2015 in Boston and represents the identity of both Latvian musicians and one of the main goals - to popularise chamber music written by Latvian composers internationally.
Their concert repertoire is very wide range starting from baroque music to contemporary and rare compositions written for the unique combination of violin and flute. “Baltic Duo” has performed in USA and Latvia including venues such as Boston’s King’s Chapel, Durbe’s Castle in Latvia and Martin Luther’s Cathedral in Daugavpils, Latvia.

Music

Baroque to contemporary solo repertoire, such as Bach, Biber, Telemann, Paganini, Piazzolla, Poe.
Repertoire of Baltic composers (such as J. Porietis, J. Kalniņš among others).

Chamber music for duo - violin and piano. Sonatas by Beethoven, Mozart, Debussy, Ravel, miniatures and concert pieces by composers such as Kreisler, Paganini, Arvo Pärt among others.

Baltic Duo - duo of violin and flute. Wide variety of repertoire from baroque to contemporary and rare repertoire and folk music arrangements (G. F. Telemann, W. A. Mozart, S. Joplin, I. Zemzaris, M. Dombrovska, J. Pacheco, T. Korvits among others).

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Ensemble profiles

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  Theia Piano Trio

  • Instrument: Piano Trio
  • Location: Boston

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