The nominees for the 2025 Great Music Award and the recipients of the lifetime achievement award were announced at a press conference on January 14. The Liepāja Symphony Orchestra was also among the nominees.
In the category "New Music of the Year" Jēkabs Jančevskis's First Symphony (Organ Symphony) has been nominated, the premiere of which took place at the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra's season opening concert on September 20, with the participation of Iveta Apkalna, Sniedze Kaņepe, Kaspars Vēvers and conductor Guntis Kuzma.
The Liepāja Symphony Orchestra is also particularly proud of its trumpet group's second assistant concert master Mārtiņš Zujs, who has been nominated in the category "Young Artist of the Year".
The award ceremony will take place on March 6 at the concert hall "Cēsis" at 7:00 p.m., and will be covered by Latvian public media.
The Grand Music Award is the highest Latvian state award in music. In 1993, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, at the initiative of the then Minister of Culture Raimonds Pauls, decided to annually honor the most outstanding achievements in the musical life of our country with a special award. The high prestige of the Great Music Award, both in society and in musician circles, is ensured by the work of a respectable jury, whose members attend concerts throughout the year and meet in monthly sessions. In early January, the jury nominates the previous year's nominees for the award, who are announced at a special press conference of the Ministry of Culture, and only before the award ceremony itself does the jury vote on the laureates.
