Sat, 30 Nov 2024, 19:00
November 30, 2024, 7 pm
LVSO Concert Hall
LVSO| PAVEL GIUNTER: "PER GIUNT"
T. Yariv. "Gyro"
A. Piazzolla. "Night Club 1960 (Tango)"
N. J. Živković. "Trio per uno"
A. Shenderov. "Songs of Shulamith"
S. Miliūnaitė. "Baltic Games"
K. Abe. "The Wave"
G. Koshinski. "Get it!"
N. J. Zivkovic. "Born to Be Wild"
The New Baltic Sound Quartet (Pavel Giunter, percussion; Guntars Freibergs, percussion (Latvia); Dalia Dėdinskaitė, violin; Gleb Pišniak, cello)
The Giunter Percussion Ensemble (Pavel Giunter, Tomas Kulikauskas, Sigitas Gailius, Andrius Rekašius)
Andrius Puplauskis, bassoon
Algirdas Januševičius, trumpet
Pavelas Giunter, the percussion virtuoso, invites you to a spectacular anniversary concert together with legendary percussion masters Giunter Percussion, and Andrius Puplauskis, bassoonist, The New Baltic Sound Quartet, a chamber ensemble that brings together some of the Baltic's most outstanding musicians - violinist Dalia Dėdinskaitė, cellist Gleb Pišniak, and percussionists Pavel Giunter and Guntaras Freiberg. In the LVSO Concert Hall, listeners will be able to hear a programme of different styles and colours, filled with stunning virtuosic passages and pulsating energy.
Pavelas Giunteris, who is celebrating his jubilee, is one of Lithuania's most famous percussionists, the leader of the Giunter Percussion ensemble, and a long-standing performer with the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, playing a wide range of genres - classical, contemporary, jazz and world-styled compositions. Expressive, artistic and temperamental, he regularly participates in classical and contemporary music projects with the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra, various chamber ensembles and soloists, and performs classical, contemporary, jazz, and world-style compositions. As a soloist he has taken part in contemporary music festivals such as Gaida, the New Music Festival in Riga, festivals in Lodz, Warsaw, Denmark (ArtGenda), Minsk, Helsinki, Berlin, Serbia (Novy Sad), London, etc. In 1995 he founded the ensemble Vilniaus percussionieji (Vilnius Percussion) (now Giunter Percussion). The musician has amassed an impressive collection of percussion instruments. Many percussion works by Lithuanian composers are dedicated to Giunter.