The Vilnius City Municipality St.Christopher Chamber Orchestra (artistic director and chief conductor Modestas Barkauskas), renowned for its versatility, professionalism, and artistic imagination, will be opening the festival's concert series this year. The event, which became a tradition in 1998, will take place at the National Art Gallery, where the works of the undergraduates of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre will be performed.
Liepa Vozgirdaitė. sotto voce
The work, prepared for double bass and string orchestra, explores the various ways of preparing and extracting the sound of this instrument, making it difficult - or "impossible" - for the strings to "speak" in traditional ways.
Augustė Dūdaitė. In flowers, sand and clouds
On a journey, nestled among memories, flower blossoms, silent desert sand and black gloomy clouds, one can find oneself. Out of imperfect details, forgotten and disused ideas, something is born that becomes reality, if only for a moment. The environment is not always supportive and nurturing, but sometimes flowers grow in the desert too, even if it is just a mirage.
Evaldas Alekna. Love Song
Solo for cello, voice and chamber string orchestra
This is a simple love song. About a simple feeling. When it's easy to be, when you don't have to say much. When you know it won't go anywhere. When your heart seems about to jump out of your chest, but you just keep on being. You just keep on not saying too much. It's very simple. Even though you know it's not that simple. But still, you close your eyes, you try to believe in miracles. And they happen. Simply.
I've Been Thinking about Love Again
Those who live to have it and
