Jānis Lūsēns

Jānis Lūsēns was born on April 7th, 1959 in Liepāja. He graduated the 8th grade of the 1st secondary school of Liepāja (1975), the theory department of the Liepāja Emils Melngailis College of Music (1979), and the Jānis Ivanovs composition class of the Latvian State Conservatory (1983). Composer has dedicated himself more to non academic genres, however still has kept interest in academic music and composes academic pieces as well. During study years he created an experimental instrumental music ensemble Zodiac (1979) whose album Disco Alliance (1980) was a major success and was sold out in 20 million copies all over the world. An important part of the composer’s creative works is taken by musicals and rock operas. The most successful rock operas being Kaupēn, mans mīļais, which is inclu