BALTIC TRANSIT

Ilona Kudiņa - flute
Maxim Lubarsky - piano
Keala Kaumeheiwa - bass
Bertram Lehman - drums

Special guests:

Arta Jēkabsone, voice
Rihards Kolmanis - guitar

Latvian-born American flute player Ilona Kudiņa’s BALTIC TRANSIT is a collaboration with accomplished Latvian jazz musicians and local Boston musicians. The voyage of Ilona’s flute sounds expresses passion, humor, and skepsis, through compositions / arrangements by Arta Jēkabsone, Rihards Kolmanis, Viktors Ritovs, Artis Orubs and Ilona Kudiņa herself, as well as folk motifs from Latgale, Ilona’s land of birth. Founded in 2017, BALTIC TRANSIT has performed at the Boston Celebrity Series "Jazz Along the Charles 2023"; Ryles Jazz Club, Cambridge, Mass.; the Brimmer and May School, Chestnut Hill, Mass.; Baltic community events in the Boston area, as well as jazz clubs and jazz festivals (Saulkrasti Jazz Festival and Baltic Jazz Festival “Škiuņa džezs”) in Latvia. In the summer of 2022, BALTIC TRANSIT released an album (available on Bandcamp).