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Ieva Nimane (1979) is musician, born in Riga and studied modern oboe (2003) at Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music. In following years interest to Early Music and historically informed performance started to emerge and Ieva took up recorder and accomplished her Master studies in Early Music in JVLMA (2008) and studied recorder and modern oboe also in Grieg Academy, University in Bergen (2011). To accomplish historical practice when musicians played more than one instrument, Ieva turned to baroque oboe and finished her Master studies (2017) also being a student in historical oboe class in Royal Conservatoire in Den Haag, Netherland.
Ieva is a musician in numerous Early music projects in Latvia, and she plays in baroque orchestraFlorilegium Musicum (Netherlands). Ensemble Bach d’amour focuses un J.S.Bach’s music and his attachment to “hautbois”, Fabella Ensemble mostly perform 17th century music, but Ensemble SABIA Ieva merges both of her passions – Early music and Folk music. Ieva masters different traditional instruments such as bagpipes, whistles, overtone flutes, kokle etc. As traditional wind instrument player she has participated in many projects, playing with Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, States Chamber OrchestraSinfonietta Riga, Latvian Radio Choir. Special relation Ieva has with vocal groupSchola Cantorum Riga (artistic director Guntars Prānis), where traditional music and improvisation blends with gregorian chant in magnificent soundscape.
Ieva Nimane teaches in Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music (Early Music department, Wind instrument department).
Ieva is a nominee of Grand Music Award 2024 (Latvia) for excellent work in ensemble.
Ieva Nimane 