About the artist
Her story begins in Cesis, Latvia.
As a child Ieva loved nature and stories, loads of stories. She had an immediate love for piano since she can remember herself.
In Ieva's words ... "It was my escape and best friend. My story telling partner. I used to plan to run away with my cat and my piano and live in the woods. I was 6 at the time, it might have not been the brightest idea I ever had."
Background
Pianist
Ieva Dubova started her piano journey in a small city of Cesis Latvia, trough many challenges and life events that eventually led to a performance degree from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of music under the tutelage of noted pianist Alexander Ardakov. Ieva is an award winning pianist both as a soloist and collaborative pianist.
Ieva is known for sensual style of piano playing and great love for both romantic period and contemporary works. Having performed concerts across Europe and the UK Ieva is a well loved in demand pianist
Composer
Ieva Dubova is composer known for her experimental, new age approach to classical music and exploring musicality beyond tonality as well as her collaborative work.
Her latest works have been frequently played on BBC Introducing, Radio Exile and Resonance FM as well as performed across Europe.
‘Inspired by nature, sensuality, and memories from her Baltic homeland, Dubova’s neo-classical compositions are infused with cinematic melodies and digital ambient textures that capture the spirit of childhood imagination, evoke the beauty of nature, and transcend the temporal..’
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LATEST ALBUMS
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SEDO
Reminiscing and looking back at the past year composer Ieva Dubova has created her new piano variations that are ever so intimate and personal.
SEDO is collection of half improvised compositions created from graphic scores using altered blues scale, blues scale and locrian mode in variations.
It is an intimate invitation in a sound world and harmony that represents the composers personal journey.
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PRELUDES
Inspired by Skriabins harmonic language and the mystic chord, The preludes set off to explores internal senses to evoke the beauty of art and nature, and transcend the temporal.
They follow a path from nothing to humanity through various scenes and also evolve as compositions from providing texture to telling a story.
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REVERIE
Debut album ‘Reverie’, a nostalgic exploration into nature and memory, features a number of original compositions that reflect the artist’s life and past. From the haunting depth of 'Åvu Åvu’, with its ethereal film score nuance, to the playful brightness of ‘Innocence' offset by a gentle drum march and childlike sense of wonder, the experimental nature of Dubova’s sound sits in the neo-classical realm.
