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20th International Contemporary Music Festival GAIDA

 

Closing Concert

 

 

Performers:

LITHUANIAN NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Juozas Domarkas

Soloists:

ARŪNAS STATKUS (viola)

SONIA WIEDER-ATHERTON (cello)

With the participation of singers SKAIDRA JANČAITĖ and GIRMANTĖ VAITKUTĖ

Conductor ROBERTAS ŠERVENIKAS

 

Programme:

WOLFGANG RIHM – Versuchung for cello and orchestra

GIORGIO BATTISTELLI – Snape Skyscape for symphony orchestra

ALGIRDAS MARTINAITIS – Eurassic Park for viola and orchestra (2010; premiere)

ALGIRDAS MARTINAITIS – Le testament musical for symphony orchestra and two voices (world premiere)

 

Part of the GAIDA Festival

 

Contemporary music festival Gaida, one of the leading forums for contemporary music in Central Europe, is being organised for the twentieth year in a row (since 1991). Open to the music of every tradition and geographical latitude the festival has in recent years presented many intriguing projects. In 2007, it offered an investigation into human voice as a manifold music instrument, in 2009 it advertised different cities of the world and in 2008 the festival became a striking event of the World Music Days. The Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society and the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, the main partners of the festival, presents new contemporary music programmes annually. This year for the festival closing concert the LNSO, together with French cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton and Lithuanian violist Arūnas Statkus, introduce the latest works by Giorgio Battistelli and Wolfgang Rihm, as well as two premieres by Algirdas Martinaitis.

 

Ticket prices: Lt20 Lt30 Lt40

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