Gundega Šmite

Gundega Šmite was born in Riga, Latvia. She has graduated from Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music in the composition department with professor Pēteris Plakidis (2007). In the 2005/2006 academic year she supplemented her education with studies at the Jean Sibelius Academy of Music (Finland) with Veli-Matti Puumala. She has taken participation in Centre Acanthes workshop, having masterclasses with Salvatore Sciarrino and Fabio Nieder (2008) and Philipe Hurel, Oskar Strasnoy and Unsuk Chin (2011).