Programme:
Conrado del Rosario - "Elusive Dialogues" (Elusive Dialogues)
Francois Couperin - "Les Roseaux" (Les Roseaux)
Johann Sebastian Bach-Ferruccio Busoni - Chaconne d-minor
Giacomo Puccini - "Chrysanthemums" ("Crisantemi")
Viktor Vlasov - "Five Glimpses into the Land of the Gulag"
Arvydas Malcys - "The Bird Trail"
An evening of accordion music, featuring works from the Baroque to the present day, will dispel the illusion that this instrument is only for the passionate tango. For the second year in a row, the young and talented accordionist and laureate of numerous international music competitions, LAIMONAS SALIJUS, invites you to a dynamic, bright and full of unexpected sounds concert programme that will leave no one indifferent.
L. Salijus has given solo recitals in Serbia, Brazil, Georgia, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, and has performed with the Brazilian National Theatre Symphony Orchestra, the Calabria Symphony Orchestra, the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, the VMU Chamber Orchestra, and the Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra. He is a winner and prize-winner of international competitions in the USA, Ukraine, Canada, Russia, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia. In 2015, he was awarded the title of the second accordionist in the world at the World Accordion Championships "World Cup" and "World Trophy".