Student interview: David Kolton. 

11 Nov 2023

This week, I sat down again with one of our recent students at Liden and Denz to find out more about why Riga is the perfect place for students of all ages.  Why did you ...
11 Apr 2023

Music is inherently intertwined with both language, and consequently, culture. It draws on the broad corpus of its chosen language and plays with the most complex of ...
19 Dec 2022

Most of us probably know about the time of prohibition in the United States. But did you know that in Russia there used to be a prohibition of playing instruments? Strangely ...
09 Sep 2021

Last Friday, Anton Semyonov, a Russian accordion player visited Liden and Denz and gave a private performance for the students and staff here. So, instead of writing blogs, ...
05 Sep 2021

Throughout history we have searched for an infinite number of ways to express our feelings and emotions, because, however useful and vital verbal language may be, it is ...
14 Apr 2021

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As well as being the lead vocalist of the epic death-metal band MegaDragon, Nathan Paul is currently studying Russian online with Liden and Denz. His five-piece band is based ...
21 Sep 2020

Land of great contrasts, Russia stands before the eyes of us foreigners as an obscure, elusive land. Few among those who were not born there - and perhaps not even those who ...
15 Nov 2019

It has been almost two months since I moved to Russia and I can truly say how impressed I am with Russian’s love for music. There is a vast amount of songs, which any Russian ...
17 Jul 2019

This coming weekend the 20-21st of July 2019, VK Fest will be setting up in St Petersburg for the fifth year in a row. VK Fest is markedly the biggest festival in Russia - ...