Ansis Bētiņš & Artūrs Čukurs is a vocal duo from Riga, Latvia. Driven by their interest in different singing traditions of various periods, regions, and styles, Ansis and Artūrs work between the fields of folk, early and contemporary music. Their debut album Slavic Folk Songs (XKatedral, 2025) is a collection of songs and sacred chants from diverse Slavic regions, based on oral traditions and melodies often without authors or composers. The songs have been arranged by the duo for two voices and are performed in a traditional style of singing called “white voice”, which requires no significant amplification or accompaniment. With a special emphasis on Ukrainian songs from now occupied regions, the songs outline a path of perils, struggles and misfortunes of the world, yet full of longing, respites, fleeting moments of joy and relentless hope and love throughout.

Ansis Bētiņš is a singer and musician from Riga, Latvia. He studied academic singing and early music at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music (JVLMA) and the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence, Italy. He is a lecturer and vocal pedagogue. Ansis has extensive experience as a soloist and has collaborated with both local and international artists, early music ensembles, and orchestras. His repertoire extends from Renaissance to contemporary music. Among his other interests, language and rhetoric stand out, which is why both his work on ancient music and his work as a freelance actor are connected.

Artūrs Čukurs is a theatre artist and musician from Riga, Latvia. He has studied at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU). With a keen interest in collective creation methods, he is driven by a desire for diversity and is always seeking new ways to blend musical and theatrical experiences together. By working with sound, objects and materiality, in his works he inquires the relationships between the human, spaces and things in order to seek different ways to relate to the world around and within.

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