Masters of improvisation Tomas Kutavičius (piano) and Arkadijus Gotesmanas (percussion) will share with the guests of the club the music that is born here and now, in a spontaneous musical dialogue.

Tomas Kutavičius - composer, pianist, improviser - combines the tools of jazz and classical music. Alongside jazz, academic music plays an important role - from vocal miniatures, choral and chamber works, to symphonies.

As introduced in the LRT Klasika programme "Jazz Passages". "Tomas Kutavičius is well known to the older generation of jazz audiences as a participant in prominent, historical projects. He played in the Sasnauskas Quartet, forged new genre boundaries with D. Naujokaitis and J. Milašius, "grazed the wind" with Vytautas Labutis, and has played with a wide range of Lithuanian and international jazz artists, from P. Vyšniauskas and V. Tarasov to K. Kugel and J. Haffner. However, composing, theatre music and academic music took Tomas Kutavičius out of the jazz field for almost two decades. Finally, with the recording of his solo CD "Ežeras", Tomas Kutavičius returned to jazz and improvisational music, back to the field of music where his career as a pianist began in 1985." Link to the recording: Jazz Passages. Guest - pianist and composer Tomas Kutavičius - 2023.04.16 - Radioteka - LRT

"Arkady Gotesman is an inventive artist with a broad musical articulation, for whom it is not difficult to play jazz from the swing or bebop era, but whose uniqueness is evident in the fields of free jazz and improvisational music. Alongside the standard drum kit, the stage is always filled with the most bizarre sets of cymbals and a wide variety of additional percussion instruments. Rattles, bells, chimes, bowls, bongos, buffalo drums, even a plastic bag lying on the ground can become another percussion instrument. A rich instrumental baggage, a vivid imagination and a great ability to improvise make every performance of this master an unforgettable sonic journey." (Vitalijus Gailius, Lithuanian Music Information Centre)

MUSIC LIVE is a series of concerts of various musical genres, held in a cosy chamber environment. Here you can hear the music and have a pleasant conversation with the performer and other guests.