First concertmaster

Violinist Magdalēna Geka is one of the brightest and most active Latvian musicians of the new generation and performs extensively throughout Europe as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestra concertmaster. Magdalena has been nominated twice for the Latvian Grand Music Prize in the category "Young Artist of the Year" in 2014 and "For Outstanding Interpretation" in 2020, and in 2022 she received the prestigious German Sound Recording Awards "Opus Klassik" nominations in three categories, including the category "Young Artist of the Year" about Maija's Einfelde's album of violin sonatas in a duet with pianist Iveta Cālīte, published by "SKANI". Since the spring of 2022, she has been the first violin of the French quartet "Akilone", and since January 2024 - the concertmaster of the State Chamber Orchestra "Sinfonietta Rīga".

Magdalena Geka obtained a master's degree at the National Higher Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris (CNSMDP) in the specialty of violin and chamber ensemble, where she completed her studies in the prestigious "Artist Diploma" program in 2022. She received her "artist's diploma" as a chamber musician at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium. In 2021/2022, she completed a special study program for orchestral concertmasters (Concertmaster Artist Diploma) offered by the National Higher Conservatory of Music and Dance of Lyon (CNSMD de Lyon) in cooperation with the Orchester National d'Auvergne.

As an orchestra musician, Magdalēna Geka has played in The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre de Paris and other French national orchestras, and she regularly performs as concertmaster and conductor of the "Kremerata Baltica", Orchestre national d'Auvergne, Orchestre Hexagone, Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle Europe and the Ensemble Appassionato.

It is important for her to play the music of modern composers: she has premiered around forty premieres, and several of them are also dedicated to her, in close collaboration with young composers such as Platons Buravickis, Santa Busš, Jānis Petraškevičs, Matīss Čudars, Asia Ahmetjanova, Gabriel Sivak (Argentina), Camille Pépin (France) and others.

Since the fall of 2020, she has been playing an instrument made by Alessandro Gagliano in 1734, kindly lent to her by the "Anima Musica" foundation in Paris.