He was born in Ogre (Latvia) in 1994. Since 2022, he has been a student at the Reina Sofía School of Music, in the Fundación Banco Santander Piano Chair, with Professor Stanislav Ioudenitch. She holds a scholarship from the Fundación Albéniz. In 2023 and 2024, he received the Diploma for the most outstanding student in his chair from Her Majesty Queen Sofía.
He topped Pianist magazine’s list of “Pianists to Watch in 2020” after his first solo album, released that same year.
In 2019, he received the Vendôme Prize at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland and first prize at the Maria Canals International Piano Competition in Barcelona.
After winning Latvia’s Grand Music Award (Lielā mūzikas balva), his orchestral appearances have included performances with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra and the Belgian National Orchestra and, in the 21/22 season, the Aarhus, Madrid and Flanders symphony orchestras, as well as debut recitals at the Verbier Festival and the Palau de la Música in Barcelona.
In 2022, he released a new recording of Soler’s sonatas for Naxos.
As a student at the School, he has taken part in masterclasses with Nikolai Demidenko, Robert Levin, Florent Boffard, Sir András Schiff and Eldar Nebolsin. He has also performed with the School’s Baroque Ensemble (conducted by Paul Goodwin) and with the Camerata Fundación EDP (conducted by Paul Goodwin), and has been a member of the Mistral Trio and the Strauss Quartet.