With this achievement, “Kamēr…” becomes the only choir in the world to have won the European Grand Prix four times. The ensemble has now earned this most prestigious title under each of its artistic directors — Māris Sirmais, Jānis Liepiņš, Aivis Greters, and Jurģis Cābulis.

In the final, “Kamēr…” competed against Latvia’s “Sōla” and choirs from Indonesia and the Philippines. Their program included Ādolfs Skulte and Ziedonis Purvs’ poem Jūrai (To the Sea), Henry Purcell and Sven-David Sandström’s Hear My Prayer, O Lord, Richard Dering’s Factum est silentium, Ēriks Ešenvalds’ A Drop in the Ocean with words by Mother Teresa, and Tadeja Vulc’s Sine Sole Nihil Sum (Without the Sun I Am Nothing).

???? Watch the final performance:
YouTube – Grand Prix Tolosa 2025

Throughout the week, the choir also performed concerts across the Basque Country and other Spanish regions — including Beasain, Astillero, Zaragoza, and Pamplona.

The European Grand Prix tour was supported by the Riga City Council’s Department of Education, Culture and Sports, the Concert Organization “Ave Sol”, the TAVS ATBALSTS Foundation, Business Management College, and Sworn Attorney Sandis Bērtaitis.

The choir returns to Riga on Monday, 27 October, at 19:50, arriving from Copenhagen.

Information from Tolosa prepared by choir director Andrejs Stupins-Jēgers.