On 21 September at 18:00, at the European Parliament, you can find out more. Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall

Concert of the Festival "World Piano Stars Salute M.K.Čiurlionis"

Lucas Debargue (France)

Alexei Volodin (Spain)

From 2020 onwards, the Tytuvėnai Festival, the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Orchestra and the M.K.Čiurlionis House in Vilnius will organise the Birthday Concerts for Mikolaj Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). This creates a tradition of commemorating the unique Lithuanian artist by listening to renowned Lithuanian and foreign pianists. By including works by Čiurlionis in their repertoire, foreign performers celebrate our country's culture and, of course, the great composer. This effort has made it possible to invite music lovers to one of the largest piano music festivals in the Baltic States in September 2025, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Čiurlionis' birth. On each evening of the festival, M.K.Čiurlionis will be saluted by two different world stars. For the first time ever, the Čiurlionis Birthday Concerts are coming to the LVSO Hall, where two world music celebrities, Alexei Volodin (Spain) and superstar Lucas Debargue (France), who is coming to Lithuania for the first time ever, will take you on a journey through the music of Čiurlionis, E.Grieg, M.Ravel, F.Liszt, and C.Frank.

Concert programme:

Part I

Alexei Volodin

The concert programme includes M.K.Čiurlionis, E.Grieg, F.Liszt

Alexei Volodin is a pianist already well known to the Lithuanian audience, who has studied with the legendary piano pedagogue Elisa Virsaladze, who has named her student one of the most famous pianists of the young generation. Winning the prestigious Geza Anda Piano Competition in Switzerland opened the door to the world's great concert halls. In recent years, his solo concerts have been performed at the Royal Festival Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Paris Philharmonic, the Auditoria Nacional de Musica in Madrid, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall in New York, and many more. Volodin has performed with the world's leading orchestras on every continent. He is one of the few pianists in the world to have performed all five of Prokofiev's Piano Concertos for Piano and Orchestra in one evening, as well as all of van Beethoven's Piano Concertos in one evening. Unlike many famous musicians, Volodin, when he sits down at the instrument, knows how to find the golden mean between meaning and emotion, sensitive touch and impeccable technique. The pianist's repertoire ranges from Bach to Scheherkin. "The Classical Source describes the pianist as a magnificent artist who "peels back the layers of meaning and expression in everything he plays, captivating with a fabulously discreet virtuosity."

Part II

Lucas Debargue

The programme includes works by M.K. Čiurlioni, M. Ravel, G.Faure

"Since Glen Gould's visit to Moscow and Van Cliburn's victory in the Tchaikovsky Competition at the height of the Cold War, no foreign pianist has caused such a sensation and frenzy of audiences as Lucas Debargue's performance in the 2015 Tchaikovsky Sandpiper Competition."-The Huffington Post.

After his sensational performance at the 2015 competition, Lucas Debargue has quickly become one of the world's most coveted pianists. He has played at the Berlin, Vienna and Paris Philharmonics, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall in New York, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, concert halls in Shanghai, Beijing and Seoul, and many other music centres around the world. On 21 September 2025, Lithuanian audiences will be able to hear this unique music for the first time. Lucas Debargue has collaborated with the world's greatest orchestras and his chamber music concerts have been performed at Verbier, La Roque d'Anthéron and other major music festivals.

With fierce integrity and dazzling power of communication, Lucas Debargue draws inspiration for his playing from literature, painting, cinema, jazz, and creates a highly personal interpretation of carefully selected repertoire. His career is based on classical academic repertoire, but Lucas also focuses on a wide range of lesser-known composers. In recent years, his world tours have included works by Karol Szymanowski, Nikolai Medtner and Milosz Magin.