Latvian tenor Viesturs Jansons studied at the Latvian Academy of Music. Currently he takes classes with the associated professor Anita Garanča. He has participated at the master classes with Josef Walnig at Salzburg Mozarteum, Wilfrid Jochim, Thomas Hamsley, Fabio Perona, Irina Gavrilovici, Pio Bonfatti a. o. Since 1998, he is a soloist at the Latvian National Opera and has toured with the company to Hong Kong City Art Festival (2009), Dalhalla Opera Festival (2004), Savonlinna Opera Festival (2004). He regularly takes part also at the Riga Opera festivals, Sigulda Opera festivals and Sacred Music festivals. In 2004 Viesturs Jansons received the 3rd prize at the Jāzeps Vītols International Vocal Competition.
The soloist collaborates with various conductors: Steven Barlow, Zbigniew Graca, Gintaras Rinkevicius, Māris Sirmais, Wolfgang Schäfer, Alexandre Schumsky, Simon Phipps, Martin Sieghart, Aleksandrs Viļumanis, Martin Winkler, Fabio Perona, and Andres Mustonen. His operatic repertoire includes many tenor roles, among which the most notable are Quint in The Turn of the Screw, Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Acis in Acis and Galatea, Oronte in Alcina, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Count in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Lensky in Eugene Onegin. Viesturs Jansons has also a very extensive oratorio repertoire raging from Bach and Handel to Haydn and Beethoven to Britten and Schnittke.