The evening concert invites you to hear an unexpected combination - cello and brass band. This time, the cello fiesta is joined by rare guests - the Lithuanian Army Orchestra (leader and conductor Major Egidijus Ališauskas), which has been in existence for more than 30 years, responsible not only for the traditions of music for military orchestras and the proper performance of national anthems during solemn ceremonies, but also for fostering new, modern the dissemination of works, the aspiration to bring society together with the help of music. The concert is playfully titled "Casanova Stories" based on the famous Dutch composer Johan de Meij's "Casanova". This is the 18th century that captured women's hearts. a musical portrait of the film and philosopher Giacomo Casanova, embodied by the cello instrument. Eight musical scenes recount the most vivid episodes of Casanova's adventurous life: his arrest, imprisonment and escape from the infamous Piombi prison in Venice.
Austrian composer Friedrich Gulda's Concerto for cello, brass band and rhythm group is no less intriguing, erasing the boundaries between genres and also full of musical adventures, events that are conveyed in the spirit of jazz, rock and improvisation. F. Gulda himself described the work as "jazz, minuet, rock, a little polka, march and a couple of cadences during which the star cellist has to improvise." Yes, the young stars are soloing tonight! This is not the first time that Marius Urba (Lithuania, Germany) is participating in the festival, who is described as "an excellent cellist with an extraordinary sound and warm vibrato", and the Bulgarian Atanas Krastev, a student of David Gering, laureate of international competitions, by the way, of a similar festival in Bulgaria. Cellissimo's Art Director. Both soloists are jury members of this year's competition in Klaipėda.