Event description
A complete monomusical performance exploring the themes of love, sin and immortality through the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Sebastian Bach. The virtuosic talents of violinist Barbora Valiukevičiūtė and Šiauliai Drama Theatre actor Vladas Baranauskas transcend boundaries, inviting the audience on a transformative journey, where they promise to take the audience to the stirring depths of the soul through music and literature.
Barbora Valiukevičiūtė received her Bachelor's degree from the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied violin with Professor Grigory Kalinovsky, and her Master's degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she studied with Professor Philip Setzer and the Emerson String Quartet. She received her M.M. from DePaul University, where she studied violin with Professor Ilya Kaler.
The violinist's recitals and chamber music have been performed in some of the world's most renowned concert halls such as the Metropolitan Museum Concert Hall, Veronica Hagman Hall, the Staller Center for the Arts in the United States, the Auditorium al Duomo in Florence (Italy), and the Fukuoka Across Hall in Japan. Her stage partners have included Ieva Jokubavičiūtė, Raul Rodriguez, Leon Livshin, Vadim Gluzman, Miles Masicotte and others. Valiukevičiūtė is the cultural ambassador of Kaunas European Capital of Culture 2022, the artistic director of the well-known festival "Concerts for the Mayor" in Lithuania, a talented producer and an educator.
Vladas Baranauskas is a Lithuanian theatre and film actor. Since 1969 he has been an actor of Šiauliai Drama Theatre, since 1996 he has been the head of the theatre's company. He has acted in Lithuanian television and radio plays. He has created over 100 roles in the theatre, a one-man play "Patching up Lithuania" (based on the letters of Vladas Putvinskis-Pūtvis), and has been featured in Lithuanian and Russian feature films.