Event description
Sung by Judita LEITAITĖ
Participation of Yuriy Sukhanov (piano)
The programme will feature the most beautiful pieces full of joy and good mood
"Sometimes you get a feeling - I call it a moment of happiness - when like an angel comes down and affects not only you, but also the audience, because they remember it for a long time afterwards. And then I see tears in the eyes of the audience. That is the biggest celebration for me. And the next time it might be in a village community, or it might be in the Philharmonic Hall. But it doesn't always happen like that - the angels don't come down that often," singer Judita LEITAITĖ, who opens her heart and the beauty of her song at her concerts, said in an interview. This afternoon, the soloist and her stage partners present the most beautiful pearls of Lithuanian song - both well-known melodies and vocal pieces that are rarely heard on stage.
Listeners and fans know Judita Leitaitė as an active performer of chamber music, laureate of international competitions, and associate professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Her musical activity has been appreciated not only by the respect and affection of the audience. The singer has been awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great for her services to Lithuanian culture, and in 2005 she was awarded the Government Prize for Culture and Art. Leitaitė has been awarded the Golden Disk, the medal "For Merits to Vilnius and the Nation", and the award "Carry Your Light and Believe" from the Ministry of Culture of Lithuania.
Nowadays, the soloist pays special attention to concerts in churches in Lithuania (she has visited about 250 churches) as well as in retirement homes and social welfare institutions. For the third year, she has been organising the sacred music competition "Honour to the Almighty". As a prominent soloist in sacred music, J. Leitaitė sings at Christian festivals, including the Pax et Bonum Festival, where she performed St. John of God's Mass. She performed the part of Clara in Algirdas Martinaitis' oratorio "Giesmės sv. She also sang for the first time in Lithuania Samuel Barber's vocal cycle "Songs of Hermits".