Janis Sipkevics Begins New Life Adventures as a Student in Stockholm

Well, the dream has come true and Jānis has shown his followers on social networks that he has officially become a student and the new life adventures in Stockholm can begin!

“I am very, very happy and honored that I have been given such an opportunity,” musician Jānis Šipkēvics told “Kas Jauns” magazine this summer.

Time to learn new horizons

Jānis had considered the idea of ​​self-improvement and professional development for quite a long time, until a year ago he completely came to the decision – the right time has come to study again. “After graduating from the Latvian Academy of Music, when I obtained a bachelor’s degree in choral conducting, for many years I had the feeling that the knowledge gained in my studies and the experience gained in my professional activities were sufficient. But there came a moment when I realized that I should try something else, broaden my horizons, getting to know something completely new. I realized that I am ready to give up the usual and familiar rules of the game to go into the unknown. And this was the right moment when I feel full of strength. I realized that I still don’t know a lot, that the area in which I have been working all the time until now is actually only a small part of the musical miracle that the world offers,” Šipkēvics explained his motivation.

Why did you choose Sweden as a place of study? “It’s no secret that Sweden is very, very developed in today’s modern music, Swedish producers are the authors of the hits of the world’s most famous pop stars. Within the framework of the studies I have chosen, both composition of compositions and their production and recording are planned. And this is exactly the gap that I wanted to fill in myself, to become more professionally self-sufficient, so that I could take the music I created from the beginning to the end. In addition, the geographical factor also worked – I really wanted to continue operating in Latvia as well, but you can get from Stockholm to Riga by plane faster than by car from Riga to Liepāja,” explains Jānis.

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