Iveta Apkalna

Since Iveta Apkalna’s debut with the Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of Claudio Abbado in 2007 she has performed with a number of the world’s top orchestras in Europe’s, North America’s and China’s most renowned concert venues.

Iveta Apkalna has served as the titular organist of the Klais organ at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany since 2017. In October 2018 she inaugurated the new Klais organ at the opening concerts of the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts in Taiwan. Since 2019 Ms. Apkalna has been "Artist in Residence" of the Konzertkirche Neubrandenburg, whose instrument was developed in 2017 by the Berlin organ manufacturer Karl Schuke and the Bonn organ builder Johannes Klais in collaboration with Iveta Apkalna. At the Konzertkirche Neubrandenburg she recorded her most recent CD "Triptychon" with works by Vasks, Bach and Liszt for Berlin Classics. The 2021-2022 season marks the beginning of Iveta Apkalna's three-year residency at the Konzerthaus Berlin. Furthermore, she makes her debut with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic.

Iveta Apkalna is dedicated to contemporary music and performs works by Naji Hakim, Ēriks Ešenvalds, Arturs Maskats or Thierry Escaich.

She was appointed cultural ambassador of Latvia and became the first organist to receive the title of “Best Performing Artist” award at the 2005 ECHO Klassik. In 2018 and 2020 she received the “Latvian Grand Music Award”, the most prestigious award in music in Latvia and was awarded the “Order of the Three Stars”, the highest civilian order awarded for meritorious service to Latvia by the state president.