Aivis Greters
Conductor | Latvian
About Aivis Greters
Aivis Greters is a Latvian conductor and has been Principal Guest Conductor at Gothenburg Opera since 2023, after two years at the house as Kapellmeister. There he has led Carmen, Iolanta and the gala concert for the 30th anniversary of the Opera’s new house.
Highlights of his 2025/26 season include the opening of the Oslo Philharmonic’s season at Oscarsborg Fortress and debuts with the Berner Symphonieorchester, the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and the Warsaw Philharmonic. He returns to the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Sinfonietta Riga and the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra. In recent seasons he has debuted with the Wiener Symphoniker, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the Bamberger Symphoniker and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, among others, and he works regularly with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Rooted in the musical tradition of Latvia, he has conducted all three of the country’s major orchestras and made his Latvian National Opera debut in 2022. He won second prize at the 2021 Deutscher Dirigentenpreis.
Greters began his career in 2018 as artistic director of the Latvian Youth Choir Kamēr, which under his direction won the Grand Prix at the Tolosa Choral Contest in 2018 and the European Grand Prix in 2019, becoming the first choir to win three European Grand Prix titles. In 2021 he received the Grand Music Award of Latvia as Young Artist of the Year.
