Aija Alsiņa is a Latvian composer living and working in Riga, Latvia. Her third full length album, Lightkeeper, has been released in 2025, following her debut release, Domum, in 2017 and the second album, Creation, in 2021.
Music has always been her expressive language, a tool to tell a story, bringing about pleasurable melancholy, as she strives to help her listeners get in touch with the core of their emotions.
Aija Alsiņa was born in Riga, Latvia, in a family of five, and it was at her grandparents’ farm where she would spend her summers and where she got acquainted with the piano at the age of six. This turned into a lifelong affection, and, while never receiving any formal music education, Aija has since partaken in many musical activities – singing in choirs, playing bassguitar in several indie and post-rock bands, organising concerts and tours.
Music was always just a hobby, a mental retreat from everyday routine, until in 2013 Aija left Riga for Barcelona, leaving behind both her day job in finance and band mates in Gaserata, a Latvian post-rock collective. She reunited with her childhood instrument – the piano – and started working on her debut album. She moved again in 2015, this time to London where she has completed an MSc in Composition for Film and Media.
In 2019 after six years of living abroad she relocated from London back to her home country – Latvia.
Aija’s music combines all of her diverse musical experiences and influences from the places where she has lived, from Riga and Copenhagen to Barcelona and London. Her instrument of choice is still the piano, but she creates music that is multi-layered, experimenting with timbres and sound effects and using brass and strings as accompaniment to create mesmerizing and unforgettable compositions.
What People Say
“Aija Alsina manages to achieve a lot with minimal means and for that she deserves great respect. Like its predecessor, the new album also manages to convince and enchant. In a way that has really become quite rare.” (Translated from German)
-Gezeitenstrom
“..an evocative album filled with texture and imagery. An effort characterized both by its assembly of mixed emotions, and by its delicate play and the broad range of sounds. Aija Alsina’s debut is utterly captivating.”
piano and coffee co.
“Aija Alsina has created a very impressive debut album with Domum! I’m so glad the piano has recaptured her imagination and that she is able to share her musical gifts with the world!”
Kathy Parsons at MainlyPiano.com
MUSIC FOR MEDIA
Original scores:
• For the Sake of the Children, audiodrama (pilot) | 2022 | director Joe Sill (USA) – Official Selection at the Tribeca Film Festival 2026
• 202, short documentary | 2020 | director Paul Lavau (FR)
• One Man, Eight Cameras, short film | 2016 | competition “Marvin Hamlisch International Music Awards” – finalist
• That’s That: The Three Loves of Vaļa, documetary | 2015 | director Santa Aumeistere (LV)
• Open (Except Sundays), documentary | 2013 – 2014 | director Santa Aumeistere (LV)
Commercials:
• JET TOKEN, Florence Creative | 2021 | director Joe Sill (USA)
• HUAWEI Director’s cut | 2020 | director Marcin Filipek (PL)
• TAG Heuer | 2017 | director The Progress Film Company (UK)
• Director’s Showreel 2015 | 2014 | director Paul Griffin (UK)
Music for fashion:
• Timeless Salience I for collection Backbone | Fashion show in Riga and Hong Kong | 2016 | designer Evija Šaitere
• Timeless Salience II for collection Backbone | Exhibition in scope of Riga Fashion Week | 2016 | designer Evija Šaitere
• Melodies From The Light Of Dawn for collection The Man Who Ate A Bird | Fashion show | 2014 | designer Evija Šaitere
STUDIES
MSc Music Composition for Film and Media | University of Hertfordshire, UK | 2017
BSc Economics | University of Latvia, LV | 2003
ADDITIONAL COURSES
Songwriting | Online Course at Coursera.org | 2013
Music Production | Music School Rhythm Institute, LV | 2010 – 2011
MUSIC ALBUMS
Lightkeeper, self-released | 2025 – available in transparent magenta vinyl
Creation, self-released, distribution by “Tone Tree Music”, USA | 2021 – available in yellow vinyl
Domum, self-released | 2017
SELECTED MUSIC RELEASES
Wednesday, Single, part for the compilation album “The Sound of Female Neoclassic’”, published by Aemeralds, DE |2024
Is This What You’d Imagined, single, part for the compilation album “foundations, Vol.1”, published by enjou, CA |2024
Lullaby, Single, part for the compilation album “Soft Piano Moments, Vol. 1” , published by Little Symphony Records, CA |2022
Crystal Blue, Single, composition for the compilation album “INRI Classics”, published by Metatron, IT | 2021
What Kind of World, Single, part of the compilation album “Uto’Pians”, published by Blue Spiral Records, IT | 2020
COMPOSER RESIDENCIES
• Visby International Centre for Composers | 2026
• Visby International Centre for Composers | 2023
AWARDS
Golden Microphone, Best Album Design – “Lightkeeper”, nominee 2025
Gamma, Artist of the Year in the Instrumental Music Genre, nominee, 2025
Two Golden Certificates for the tracks “Collecting Memories” and “Lullaby”, both reaching 2M streams, 2025
Gamma, Artist of the Year in the Instrumental Music Genre, nominee, 2024
INTERVIEWS:
LSM, 2026 | LR2, 2025 | Vinila Ēra, 2025 | Tvnet, 2024
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