CORRELATIONS CONCERT OF SCHOOL MUSIC

Chordos String Quartet:

Ingrida Rupaitė - 1st violin

Vaida Paukštienė - 2nd violin

Robertas Bliškevičius - viola

Arnas Kmieliauskas - cello

The programme interweaves and interacts with the diversity of different countries, generations, creative practices and themes. What connections can we see between the past and the present, between different people or individuals and the cosmos? Is there a big gap between seriousness and play? "Correlations offers listeners a spectrum of experiences that are at the same time different and yet united into one whole, where the most important meta-task for the listeners becomes a journey towards understanding the structure of their own world.

The concert will feature a piece Service Book (2004) by composer Arunas Navakas. According to the composer himself, he is most interested in the intersection of styles and genres, tonality and atonality, the modern and the traditional. As musicologist Asta Pakarklytė describes Navakas's work, the composer is characterised by the "pristine" and unartificial gentleness and relaxed calmness of his sounds. Each of his works is like one broad, large consonance, sounding and forming in different shapes.

Marius Baranauskas' HH Object (2023) will immerse listeners in unearthly sounds and images. The work reflects a cosmic object that is formed during the formative period of young stars and has a unique and striking symmetrical structure. The physical parameters and visual inspirations of this object are transformed into musical form, timbres, rhythms and other sonic elements. At the same time, as the composer states, it is a metaphor for birth, the beginning of the beginning and its unfolding.

The concert will also feature compositions written for the legendary American Kronos Quartet's Fifty for the Future project. My Desert, My Rose, written in 2015 by Serbian composer Aleksandra Vrebalova, is, according to the composer, like a journey of four people and characters. Starting in different places, after long searches and unexpected encounters with each other, it ends in one space, time and language.

UNESCO award-winning Dutch composer Merlijn Twaalfhoven has been working for many years on music and theatre projects in different cities with different communities, in "hot spots" around the world, or in the wild. He now calls himself a creative researcher of complex social issues. His work Play (2016) connects listeners and performers in a shared musical practice. Twaalfhoven says: "Throughout the ages (and now outside of concert halls), music has been the most effective means of bringing different people together to create, participate, play. Today our society is fragmented and divided. Can musicians contribute to creating new forms of connection and community?"

PROGRAM

Arūnas Navakas "Service Book" (2004)

Marius Baranauskas "HH Object" (2023)

Aleksandra Vrebalov "My Desert, My Rose" (2015)

Merlijn Twaalhoven "Play" (2016)

CHORDOS STRING QUARTET

The Chordos String Quartet, founded a little more than 25 years ago, has maintained its main mission throughout its existence - to present the latest Lithuanian music and to introduce the audience to the works of world-renowned composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. The audience is proud to present the works of composers from the XXXXXXI century. The ensemble regularly performs at various contemporary music festivals and concerts in Lithuania and abroad, as well as at cultural diplomacy events aimed at presenting the country. In 2024, the members of the String Quartet were awarded the Government Prize for Culture and Art.

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