Jānis Liepiņš (born August 7, 1988 in Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian conductor.
For the LNO, he has conducted productions of Il trovatore (2014), Le Villi and Gianni Schicchi (2015), Eugene Onegin (2016), Romeo and Juliet (2014), Scheherazade And Her Tales (2016), and La Bayadère (2012), and was both the conductor and musical director for the ballet Raymonda (2015) and operetta Die Fledermaus (2015).
With the leadership of Liepiņš, Kamēr... was named the champion of two categories and won the Grand Prix of the Béla Bartók International Choir Competition in 2012 in Debrecen, Hungary.
[2] Liepiņš studied at the Department of Conducting of the Riga Dome Choir School and earned two bachelor's degrees in choral and symphonic conducting at Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music.
He has also obtained skills in masterclasses by Colin Metters and during his exchange studies in Berlin under Lutz Köhler.