Līva writes music for a variety of genres and performance settings. Her compositions incorporate varied extra-musical sources such as swamp ecology, texts from the Old Testament, spam emails and boxing matches. Curiosity and collaboration are instrumental parts of her creative process, be it a piece for string orchestra, vocal a cappella writing or music for a shadow theatre performance engaging patients from a mental health facility. Her music has been performed by Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Riga Project Choir, Youth Choir “Kamēr…”, mezzo-soprano Helēna Sorokina, London-based Scordatura Collective, Academic Orchestra B-Sharp, trio ART-i-SHOCK, vocal ensemble “Putni”. Līva holds a diploma from Riga Cathedral Choir School’s program for choral conducting and singing. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in composition from Jazeps Vitols Latvian Music Academy and has studied at the Mozarteum University Salzburg under Reinhard Febel. She completed her Master’s in Composition at the Peabody Institute Of Johns Hopkins University, under professor Michael Hersch in 2021. In November 2023, she premiered her first chamber opera MONSTERA DELICIOSA for four singers, piano and percussion. Made in collaboration with theatre maker Barbara Lehtna and dramaturg Linda Krūmiņa, this opera explores the intricate connections between ecology and society through stories of Baltic women and their relationship with plants. In 2024 Līva’s music was featured in several collaborative works. In connection with the European Culture Capital Tartu 2024 programming, she wrote original compositions for a walking theatre performance ja siis oleme mei (and then there was us), created in collaboration with dozens of local community members of the Kastre parish in Estonia. In the summer of 2024, Līva wrote for the International Festival of Contemporary Theatre Homo Novus –– Linda Boļšakova’s hour-long immersive musical and theatrical performance Over time: bog bodies dance explored themes of time, ecology, and life cycles on the peatland of Ķemeri National Park in Latvia. Līva also composed tango music for Katrīna Dūka’s Queer Tango Club, which sought out new ways of expression in a dance historically dominated by men. Current commissions include a new work for brass quintet, several works for choral ensembles as well as scoring Spacehead, a Croatian, Slovenian, Slovak and Latvian co-produced, feature length film, set to premiere in 2026. Līva’s second chamber opera CANTUS FIRMUS is set premiere in October 2025.