Award winning Irish pianist Máire Carroll an Latvian soprano Laura Teivāne performed in Riga on 17 March 2016 at a function hosted by the Embassy

In honour of St. Patrick's Day, the Embassy of Ireland in Riga invited Irish pianist Máire Carroll and Latvian soprano Laura Teivāne, to perform together.

Máire Carroll is a recipient of the Jim McNaughton/Tilestyle Artist Bursary (Business to Arts Awards, 2015). Máire was the 2012 winner of the €10,000 Royal Dublin Society (RDS) Music Bursary, the first and only pianist to have won these prestigious awards. Máire made her concerto début with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland in June 2015.

Recent performances include a recital at the 2016 Leeds International Chamber Music Series, 'A Century of Song in Ireland' at Royal Overseas League, solo and chamber performances at the Irish Composers Collective Ten Year Anniversary Festival, a collaboration with the London Sinfonietta at St. John's Smith Square, London, and a solo recital for the Royal Dublin Philharmonic Society. Máire will be making her Wigmore Hall debut in April 2016.

Laura Teivāne has received a Bachelors degree in academic singing from the Latvian Academy of Music. Along with the Latvian National Opera Orchestra, the Latvian University Symphonic Orchestra and the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, Laura has performed in Finland, Lithuania and many venues across Latvia. She has participated in the Joy Mammen, Tamara Novičenko, Axel Everaerts and Andreas Bauman master-classes.

Laura has successfully participated in several international singing competitions, including the Stanislaw Moniuszko Young Musicians Competition in Minsk, Belarus. In May 2015 Laura successfully participated in the Claudia Taeva new Opera Singers Competition in Pärnu, Estonia.