Valters Puce
Valters Puce is a graduate of Emils Darzins Music Secondary School and Jazeps Vitols Latvian Music Academy, where he studied at Dace Puce’s, Mara Villerusha’s and Eleonora Testeleca’s classes. Valters studied also at The University of Music and Theatre “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig at the professor’s Peter Bruns. He got a master degree at Royal Conservatory of Brussels under the guidance of Jeroen Reulling. He improved his masterhood at the classes of famous cello play masters – Natalia Gutman, Gary Hoffman, Frans Helmerson, Misha Maiski, Maksim Utkin, Bernard Greenhous and Tilman Vik.
He is a prize winner at such international music competitions as Concertino Prague (Czehia), K. Davidova, A.Dombrovska (Latvia), Brussels Royal Academy cello competition (Belgium), Terem Crossover International Music Competition (Russia), International Songwriting Competition (USA).
Valters has performed at concerts and festivals in the USA, Russia, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Portugal, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Czehia, Slovakia, Poland, Baltic states etc.
As an active participant he took part in Kronberg Academy masterclasses of the legendary cello performer Bernard Greenhous. Valters also took part in individual music projects, played together with the Georgian ethno-Jazz band The Shin, cello trio Melo-M, the band Marana, gave concerts as a solo player with the conductors Normund Shne, Andris Veismanis etc. In parallel with this Valters is one of the musical group DaGamba founders and the author of original sound compositions.
At the moment Valters plays the cello made by Italian masters in 18th century.
Valters Puce is a graduate of Emils Darzins Music Secondary School and Jazeps Vitols Latvian Music Academy, where he studied at Dace Puce’s, Mara Villerusha’s and Eleonora Testeleca’s classes. Valters studied also at The University of Music and Theatre “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig at the professor’s Peter Bruns. He got a master degree at Royal Conservatory of Brussels under the guidance of Jeroen Reulling. He improved his masterhood at the classes of famous cello play masters – Natalia Gutman, Gary Hoffman, Frans Helmerson, Misha Maiski, Maksim Utkin, Bernard Greenhous and Tilman Vik.
He is a prize winner at such international music competions as Concertino Prague (Czehia), K. Davidova, A.Dombrovska (Latvia), Brussels Royal Academy cello competition (Belgium), Terem Crossover International Music Competition (Russia), International Songwriting Competition (USA).
Valters has performed at concerts and festivals in the USA, Russia, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Portugal, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Czehia, Slovakia, Poland, Baltic states etc.
As an active participant he took part in Kronberg Academy masterclasses of the legendary cello performer Bernard Greenhous. Valters also took part in individual music projects, played together with the Georgian ethno-Jazz band The Shin, chello trio Melo-M, the band Marana, gave concerts as a solo player with the conductors Normund Shne, Andris Veismanis etc. In parallel with this Valters is one of the musical group DaGamba founders and the author of original sound compositions.
At the moment Valters plays the cello made by Italian masters in 18th century.
