ABOUT ALEKSANDRA LINE

With a higher education in Public Relations and Marketing (BA) and Culture Management (Mg.Art.), Aleksandra Line has always been an active part of the Latvian music industry, focussing on jazz and contemporary music management. She’s a jazz expert and project manager at the Latvian Music Information Centre, taking care of the Latvian jazz music industry and promoting its achievements worldwide. In 2024 upskilled her level at the EU “Building Entrepreneurial, Transversal, and Digital Competences for Creative and Cultural Sector & Industry (CCSI)” training course.

Together with other enthusiasts wishing to make a long-term investment into Latvian jazz music, she has founded “Wise Music Society”, an association that helps audience to discover new music, and helps bands to discover new audience. Among the association’s projects, the largest have been UNESCO International Jazz Day Latvia organised every April since 2014 and JAZZin.lv, the only online magazine on Latvian jazz, including an up-to-date event list throughout the country in Latvian and English.

Aleksandra teaches music management and entrepreneurship, writes for “Mūzikas Saule” magazine and “Baltic Outlook” and co-founded LOUDER.lv, a management and promotion agency for musicians and other creative minds, with the Latvian Composers’ Union, Ukrainian Contemporary dance platform, “Dvoretsky distillery” and musicians from UK and Europe among its clients.

POETRY & SPOKEN WORD

Aleksandra Line has been writing poetry in 3 languages – English, Latvian and Russian – since her childhood. Her original poetry is a part of a spoken word & improvised jazz project “klausies”, with a debut album “17” nominated for the best recording of 2018 in jazz category of the annual Latvian music record award “Zelta Mikrofons” and all-analog recording “9” released in 2021 in the vinyl tape format by the Latvian independent jazz and improvised music record label “Jersika Records”.

The poet also writes lyrics for composers and participates in projects: