Attende Domine – Renata Stivriņa (1985 – )
Renāte Stivriņa is an interdisciplinar artist, born in Daugavpils in Latvia, who graduated with a PhD diploma in the artistic discipline of composition at the Academy of Music in Kraków, Poland. She is a composer of more than a hundred works - instrumental (three concerti for organ and orchestra), electroacoustic, organ and choral music, symphonic works, opera and musicals, music for films and animations. Her works have been published by the Latvian publishing house Musica Baltica.
In 2022 she received an award from the Polish Composers' Union at the Warsaw Autumn Festival.
Since 2023 Renāte has been organist at the Sanctuary of St. Anthony in Gdynia in Poland. As an organ performer she appreciates the music of various eras, especially the works of French organ improvisers.
Attende Domine was composed in the autumn of 2019 at the suggestion of Polish concert organist Kamil Mika who premiered it at the Marian Sawa Polish Organ Music Festival in 2019 in Kraków. The material of the plainchant under the same name served as a source of inspiration and the quote from St. Thomas Aquinas' Adoro te devote comes as the meaning and fulfilment of satisfaction. Frequent polyrhythmic figures, a signature of the composer's style, drown the musical motives leading to the ecstatic climax.
