 From 2011 to 2013 he was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.Ēriks Ešenvalds was born in Priekule, Latvia in 1977.He studied at the Latvian Baptist Theological Seminary (1995–1997) before obtaining his master's degree in composition (2004) from the Latvian Academy of Music under the tutelage of Selga Mence.