Choir of the National Guard of the Republic of Latvia STARS ("Ray of Light") was established in 2012. September 5 The idea of forming a new choir was born to choir professional, conductor Ārijs Šķepasts, and he came up with the idea of naming the choir "Ray of Light" - "The newly assembled team was like a ray of light that encouraged a new creative experience", says the founder of the choir Ā. SpearThe main mission of the Latvian National Guard Choir is to promote the spiritual and patriotic education of Latvian youth, to instill love for choral music. The choir organizes high-quality, artistically beautiful and inspiring concerts for listeners, mostly in Latvian churches. "Šviesos spindulys" participates in festivals not only in Latvia, but also abroad. The Choir's repertoire includes large-scale choral works, sacred music, Latvian national choral works. The collective regularly participates in national events, organizes concerts with the Latvian National Guard Orchestra in the most famous concert halls of Latvia, and also performs original music compositions and popular music.Choir artistic director and conductor Ārijs Šķepasts is artistic director and conductor of several choirs, pedagogue, professional choir singer - he sang in the prestigious Latvian Radio Choir for twenty years. A. Škepasts is a recognized composer and arranger of Latvian folk songs, his arranged songs are included in the repertoire of Latvian song festivals.