Event description
The XVIII International Mažeikiai Art Festival invites you to open up to change and new experiences! On 20 September, the opening concert of the festival will feature the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra's programme "Frozen in Time" by one of Lithuania's most exciting conductors Vilmantas Kaliūnas. Named after a work by Avner Dorman, a renowned contemporary Israeli-American composer, the evening will reveal the various contemporary colours of music, offering new classics - time-tested opuses and their unique interpretations. The orchestra will be joined by two of the evening's virtuoso soloists. Dorman's Frozen in Time (2007) will be interpreted by Fabian Ziegler, the renowned Swiss drummer with "visionary power" in the percussion world, who has always impressed audiences with his masterful interpretations, wherever he performs, whether at the Berlin Philharmonic or the Konzerthaus, at the Lincoln Center in New York or the Tonhalle in Zürich. The solo part of one of the most famous American minimalist Philip Glass' Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.1 (1987) will be played by the charismatic violin virtuoso Gerald Bidva, who has been exploring and performing new and exciting repertoire from the very beginning of his career in the Kremerata Baltica orchestra to his current position as the Primary Principal of the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra. The LNSO will perform at a similar time to Ph. Glasso's opus, Exodus by Feliks Bajoras, a classic of Lithuanian contemporary music, celebrating his 90th birthday this year. The latest highlight of the programme is Bruckner Revisited by Mindaugas Urbaitis, winner of the 2023 National Prize for Culture and Art. Feliks Bajoras. "Exodus (for the composer's 90th birthday) Avner Dorman. "Frozen in Time" for percussion and symphony orchestra Mindaugas Urbaitis. "Bruckner revisited" for orchestra Philip Glass. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1