October 3, 7pm. The closing concert of the Shalom Culture & & Music Festival will take place at St Catherine's Church on 19 April at 7pm, featuring clarinettist from Israel Orit Orbach, bayan virtuoso from Ukraine Yevgenii Musijets, the Vilnius City Municipality St Christopher Chamber Orchestra (artistic director and chief conductor Modestas Barkauskas) and guest musicians. The concert programme dedicated to the Hebrew New Year (Rosh Hashanah) will feature the Klezmer Concerto by Israeli composer Ofer Ben Amots, the works of Yevgeny Jasinski, and orchestral arrangements of well-known works of Jewish music.
Performers:
Orit Orbach (clarinet, Israel)
Her performance of Copland's concerto confirmed her as one of the most colourful and charismatic musicians of our generation" Michael Eisenstadt, Jerusalem Post.
Orit Orbach has performed as a soloist with many orchestras such as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the San Francisco Sinfonietta, the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the Hague Symphony Orchestra and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.
Yevgenii Musijets (Євгеній Мусієць) is a fifth-generation bayanist. As a boy of 4, he started learning to play with his grandfather, and by the age of 5 he was already performing on stage. His first solo concert was at the age of 7. He graduated from the Uzhgorod College of Music. He received his higher education (bachelor's and master's degrees) at Mukachevo State University.
Guest musicians: Joana Daunytė (harp) Andrius Rekašius (marimba, percussion) Sigitas Gailius (vibraphone, percussion) Tadas Daujotas (shofar)
Shalom Culture. Music Festival Closing Concert Sessions
