"Mandolin" ("Mandoline"), Op. 58 No. 1, b. P. Verlaine
Ralph Vaughan Williams - 'Silent Noon', b. D. G. Rossetti
Samuel Barber - Songs for voice and piano:
"Daisies", Op. 2 No. 1, b. J. Stephens
"Sure on this shining night", Op. 13 No. 3, Ž. J. Agee
Ennio Morricone - "If You Were" ("Se tu fossi") for voice and piano from the film Cinema paradiso
Vilnius and New York are two cities with their own culture. It is both a distance spanning two continents, between which many cities, countries, cultures and personalities emerge, and an immense treasure trove of music. Chamber music lovers tenor Mindaugas Zimkus and pianist Paula Gudinaitė invite listeners to travel through the near and far, familiar and undiscovered horizons of music in the programme "From Vilnius to New York". From the vocal music of Lithuanian composers close to the heart and the ear to the distant, but no less attractive, works of composers from the United States of America, without bypassing the heartfelt and intimate sounds of Italian and French music.
Tenor MINDAUGAS ZIMKUS is a prize-winner in international competitions, having received the Grand Prix prizes in the S. Barr Male Voices (2001) and the Vocal Chamber Music Beatrice (2011) competitions. Winner of the LRT competition "Triumfo Ark", graduate of "Fortuna", three times nominated for the Golden Stage Cross and in 2009 recognised as the best soloist of Kaunas State Music Theatre. Having studied solo singing with Prof. Virgilijus Noreika at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, M. Zimkus has created more than twenty leading roles in various operas, and his repertoire includes not only operas, operettas and musicals, but also chamber vocal music and large-scale concert genres. Currently, the singer is a soloist of Kaunas State Musical Theatre, a lecturer at the Academy of Music of Vytautas Magnus University, a teacher at Kaunas Juozas Gruodis Conservatoire, and is invited to perform at various Lithuanian concert halls and festivals, such as the Pažaislis Music Festival, Thomas Mann Festival, Užutrakis Evenings, Druskininkai Summer with M. K. Čiurlionis", "Gaida", Rokiškis Festival, International Organ Music Festival, International Tauragė Music Festival, etc.
Doctor of Arts, pianist Paulė GUDINAITĖ is a laureate of international competitions, having won the diploma of the best concertmaster at the International Chamber Music Competition "Beatričė" (2011) and the 1st prize at the Republican Concertmaster's Competition in Vilnius. After graduating from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, where she obtained her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in performing arts in 2011 and 2013 respectively, in the concertmaster classes of professors P. Geniušas and I. Armonienė, and in 2017 - in the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, where she received her Doctor of Arts degree in the field of music (prof. I. Armonienė, prof. R. Stanevičiūtė). Gudinaitė actively performs in various concert halls in Lithuania and abroad, and has participated in festivals such as "Druskininkai Summer with M. K. Čiurlionis", Nida Thomas Mann Festival, Pažaislis Festival, "Užutrakis Evenings", International Organ Music Festival in Rokiškis. She is a regular guest of tenor M. Zimkus and mezzo-soprano Eglė Šidlauskaitė, and has performed with such singers as Raminta Vaicekauskaitė (soprano), Ona Kolobovaitė (soprano), Renata Dubinskaitė (mezzo-soprano), Giedrius Prunskus (baritone), Igor Bakan (bass-baritone), Tadas Girininkas (bass), Vitaly Yushmanov (baritone, Russia-Japan), Olena Tokar (soprano, Ukraine-Germany).
