The Liepaja Symphony Orchestra has hired Lithuanian conductor Gintaras Rinkevicius (*1960) as Music Director and successor to Atvars Lakstigala, who held this position since 2010.
Liepaja Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra located in Liepaja, Latvia. It is one of the oldest orchestras in the Baltic States
Rinkevicius is also Music Director of the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra which he founded in 1889. He just quit the Novosibirsk Philharmonic, where his successor is Thomas Sanderling.