Liva

My name is Līva, I`m 24 years old vocalist, musician and performer from Latvia.
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Currently studying in Coservatorium van Amsterdam, jazz department as jazz vocalist, I grew up in a musical household with my father being a trumpet player, mother - violin player and teacher. From early age I studied classical piano, while starting to sing and compose my first songs. Later on I continued my studies as a jazz musician in one of the best music high schools in Latvia, where besides singing I gained basic skills of playing drums and electric bass.
I had an opportunity to spend the last semester studying in Los Angeles Thornton school of music, where besides diving into my deepest passion-jazz music, I had a chance to attend acting class, which not only gave new influence to my music, but showed examples of more creative ideas on how to teach singing and stage presence.
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Early on I came to a realisation that it`s easy for me to get a long with kids and make our time together worthwile by exploring and learning things in a playfull way.
I`ve had occasional experience teaching 7-9 year olds in a group-choir lessons back in Latvia, which taught me a great deal on how to keep big group of children focused and find individual ways to connect to each one of them.
While studying in Conservatory of Amsterdam I`ve had a course about pedagogy in music where we specifically looked at the approach of teaching different age, level and temperament people.
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My motivation as a teacher is pretty similar with what I`m looking for in myself, that is- finding the talents and interests in a child, guiding him through exploration and learning process of specific art forms to later combine or choose only one to create something completely unique- that is to be- a solo piano composition, theatre scene with a pre-recorded background music, singing performance on an imaginary TV show, etc.