MOMIR NOVAKOVIČ is an accordionist from Serbia and a lecturer of accordion at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and the Lasnamäe School of Music in Tallinn, Estonia. Momir studied at the Serbian school with the deepest traditions of accordion music, and at the Kragujevac School of Music, where he graduated from the world-renowned teacher Prof. Milijan Bjelitic. He completed his postgraduate studies at the Svizzera Italiana Conservatory in Lugano, Switzerland. Momir can often be heard performing solo programmes as well as in various ensembles. He is a member of Trio Ambasador. He regularly collaborates with composers such as Nadir Vassena, Wolfgang Rhim, Mattias Steinhauer, Giovanni Santini, Alessio Sabella, Tamara Basaric and others, who have created new modern music for accordion at his initiative. He has won more than 40 prizes in international competitions, including 2nd prize in the 2008 Coupe mondiale World Accordion Championship and 2nd prize in the Città di Castelfidardo Accordion Competition in Italy.

In 2014 Momir was awarded the Ambassador Club Prize in Lugano, Lugano, for his 2nd prize in the International Competition for All Musical Instruments Prix Credit Suisse and his outstanding musical career. The Fritz Gerber Foundation of Basel and Princess Elisabeth of Yugoslavia contributed to Momir's successful career. Since 2021 he is the initiator and artistic director of the international accordion festival AccordionfEST.

 LAIMONAS SALIJUS is one of the most renowned accordionists in Lithuania today. He is a winner and prize-winner of many national and international competitions in the USA, Ukraine, Canada, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia. In 2015, he was awarded the title of the second accordionist in the world at the World Accordion Championships "World Cup" (Salzburg, Austria) and "World Trophy" (Kaunas). He regularly performs in Lithuania and abroad as a soloist and member of various ensembles, and has prepared programmes together with soloists Giedrius Prunskas, Jonas Sakalauskas, Dovile Kazonaite and others. He has given solo recitals in Serbia, Georgia, Brazil, Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Italy, and has performed with the VMU Chamber Orchestra, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, Kaunas Musical Theatre Symphony Orchestra, Klaipėda Chamber Orchestra, Calabria Symphony Orchestra, the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, and the Brazilian National Theater Orchestra.

VDU CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, founded in 2011 at Vytautas Magnus University Academy of Music, is the only professional chamber orchestra in Kaunas. It was founded not only to expand the culture of classical music and its contemporary interpretations in the temporary capital, but also to represent Lithuania, the city of Kaunas and the university on an international level and to represent them abroad. During its relatively short existence, the orchestra has already performed more than 200 concerts in Lithuania and abroad - in Cyprus, Germany, USA, Sakartveld, and has participated in the most famous Lithuanian international music festivals. In 2013, the orchestra released a CD "Ekspresija" (Expression) of Lithuanian composers, in 2017 a double CD and a vinyl record "Two different sides" by Liutauras Janušaitis, and in 2020 a CD "Two different sides" by Lithuanian composers. In the same year, a CD of meditation music, Infinity, and in 2021, on the occasion of the Orchestra's 10th anniversary, a CD of Lithuanian composers' works, Fractal.

Concert organizer VšĮ "Klasikos projektai"
Concert partner KĮ Kauno valstybinė filharmonija

Co-organizers:
VDU Chamber Orchestra
Organisers of the XV International Accordion Competition "Ascoltate".