Līva Strazdina - Unspoken

In the organizer's words:

Saturday, March 14, 2026, 8 p.m.

Raumerweiterungshalle, Kopenhagener Str. 17, 14037 Berlin

Admission 12- 15 euros, Box Office from 7.30 pm, cash only, reservations: mail@jazzamhelmholtzplatz.com

LĪVA STRAZDINA - UNSPOKEN

Līva Strazdiņa - tp, flh, cmop.

Max Hacker - ts, fl

Florian Schultz - git

Laurie Rich - p

Christian Cuevas-Müller - b

Bastian Menz - dr

One passion, two instruments. Līva Strazdiņa, a native Berliner with Latvian roots, plays trumpet and flugelhorn and also composes. Now it's all coming together: She releases her debut album Unspoken with many original compositions and complements them with a cover of Honesty (Billy Joel) and an arrangement of the popular Latvian folk song Pūt Vējiņi.

Some pieces are direct reflections on concrete experiences, for example Misfortune Happens Sometimes was written after a failed concert recording. In general, Līva's music tells of experiences, feelings, encounters and everyday life. When she changes her trumpet approach, the exercises require frequent breaks - she uses them to write Concerted Breaks. Four Ants originates from a rehearsal situation. You might think it's about ants; and if you like, the piece sounds like a colony of ants happily wandering through the forest. In fact, however, it is a play on words with 'four ants' and 'four and', a counting time in music.

The trumpeter recorded her debut album with musician friends who enriched the production with their personal style and musical expertise: Max Hacker on tenor saxophone and alto flute, Florian Schultz on guitar, Laurie Rich on piano, Christian Cuevas-Müller on double bass and Bastian Menz on drums.

To this day, Līva likes to be inspired and influenced by Billy Joel, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Kendrick Lamar and others. On her debut album, this is evident in the cover of Joel's Honesty, a song that accompanied her through her youth and which she has now recorded as an instrumental piece. Due to her family roots in Latvia, Līva is interested in Latvian pop and folk music, which she grew up with and which she encounters again and again in her second home country.

Līva Strazdiņa (born 1997) studied with Sebastian Studnitzky, Malte Burba, Simon Harrer and Till Brönner at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden. She has played the piano since childhood and the trumpet and flugelhorn since the age of thirteen. In 2020, she began working on her own compositions.

With Unspoken, Līva wants to share impressions from her emotional experience. The album invites you to find yourself in this emotionality and to compare it with your own emotional world - to get to know Līva through her music and to get to know yourself through Līva's music.

"A real discovery for me in its urgency. Valuable. Go and see it!"

- Till Brönner

Text: Liva Strazdina