Reconstructed Kuldīga E.Vīgners Music School opened in Kuldīga

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On Wednesday, 24 May, the reconstructed Kuldīga E.Vīgners Music School was opened during a festive ceremony with the participation of the representatives of the local municipality, the architect, the builders, the teachers and students of the music school, as well as other guests. 

The reconstruction of the school was funded by the municipality. During the ceremony of opening, the Chair of Kuldīga Municipality Council Inga Bērziņa stressed the most important question - why did the municipality funded the reconstruction of the school? “The answer is - it is our future, our children. I want you, girls and boys, who study here, to love this place and for it to help you to develop your creativity, because more important than the building itself is the content provided by the students, their parents and the teachers. I hope that this building will bring the teachers more creative energy and strength for the day-to-day work,” said I.Bērziņa. She thanked everyone who participated in the reconstruction of the building.

The principal of Kuldīga E.Vīgners Music School Maruta Rozīte noted that this is a beautiful, historic day of celebration not only for the staff of music school, but also the district and the whole city . She recalled that the discussion that the school requires more space was first raised in the end of the sixties and then again in the eighties, and now the dream has finally come true. M. Rozīte thanked the Chairman of the Kuldīga Municipality Council Inga Bērziņa and her team for their understanding that the music school staff should work in one common building and expressed heartfelt gratitude to the architect and the builders. “We will try to create the same good atmosphere in the new building, as it was in the old one,” said M. Rozīte.

The author of the music school reconstruction project, architect Ēriks Cērpiņš, thanked for the opportunity to express himself in words, as reflected by the bricks, tiles and other construction materials, as it is the only language spoken by an architect. He was pleased with the fact the in Kuldīga there can be found true masters of brickwork and other materials and wished the school staff, the principal and the students long and successful work in the renovated building.

The object was built by the AS RERE GRUPA company SIA RERE MEISTARI. The Chairman of the Board of RERE GRUPA Guntis Āboltiņš-Āboliņš said that Kuldīga Music school is not just a building, but also an event which combines history and modernity in a single melody. “I am very happy that this school will be filled with historical melodies and that there will be new talents who will create new musical gems. This school will live,” G.Āboltiņš-Āboliņš said. The construction company gifted the school a symbolic key ring with a motif of the Beethoven’s 5th Symphony and the company logo. As the logo depicts the Latvian symbol jumis, G. Āboltiņš-Āboliņš expressed a hope that it will bring good luck to the building. The company also gave the school a houseplant as a reminder that the school must be taken care of and nurtured.