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VILNIUS FESTIVAL 2016 Path of the Planets June in the Sky and Music 3–21 June Vilnius Friday 3 d. June, 19.00 Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre Opening concert of the festival with Angela Gheorghiu ANGELA GHEORGHIU (soprano, Romania) MARIUS BRENCIU (tenor, Romania) Conductor CIPRIAN TEODORASCU (Romania) LITHUANIAN NATIONAL OPERA AND BALLET THEATRE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (music director Robertas Šervenikas) Host EGLĖ ULIENĖ Programme The most beautiful opera arias, duets and overtures by Giuseppe Verdi, Arrigo Boito, Francesco Cilea, Giacomo Puccini, Gaetano Donizetti, Georges Bizet, Piotr Tchaikovsky, Alfredo Catalani, Franz Lehár The opening evening of the twentieth Vilnius Festival will undoubtedly turn into the musical event of the entire year. For the first time in Lithuania, we shall welcome the opera superstar Angela Gheorghiu, the most glamorous and gifted opera singer of our time, who is also often called one of today’s most beautiful women working in the sphere of theatre. Originally from Romania, the famous singer made her professional debut as Mimi in Puccini’s masterpiece La bohème. Her impressive career later extended into the most important opera theatres and concert halls of the world – the star of her unique talent shone brightly at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Royal Opera Covent Garden in London, “Staatsoper” in Vienna, “La Scala” in Milan and many other venues, concerts and opera performances have taken her to Paris, Berlin, Rome, Tokyo, Chicago, Los Angeles, many other cities in Europe and the USA. Ms. Gheorghiu will be joined on stage by famous Romanian tenor Marius Brenciu, who made his debut at the Bucharest Opera in 1997. Having won many international competitions (among which were Julien Gaillardo’s competition, Queen Elisabeth in Brussels, “Auditorium” in New York), in 2001 he became the first Romanian soloist to win the prestigious BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. Mr. Brenciu is currently performing at the Metropolitan Opera (New York), Royal Opera Covent Garden (London), “Staatsoper” in Vienna, opera theatres in Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Lyon, Munich, Lisbon, Geneva, Florence, Rome, Tel Aviv and elsewhere. The concert also features the LNOBT’s symphony orchestra led by Ciprian Teodoraşcu, a conductor at the Bucharest National Opera Theatre. Tickets – 45, 55, 65, 80, 100, 200 Eur Sunday 5 June, 19.00 Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall Faustas Latėnas. Music as Theatre Concert to mark the 60th anniversary of composer FAUSTAS LATĖNAS, a recipient of the Lithuanian National Prize INDRĖ BAIKŠTYTĖ (piano), RŪTA LIPINAITYTĖ (violin), TOMAS PETRIKIS (viola), DAVID GERINGAS (cello), GIEDRIUS GELGOTAS (flute) RENATA MARCINKUTĖ-LESIEUR (organ) FORTVIO Piano Trio. ARTVIO String Quartet ČIURLIONIS QUARTET VILNIUS State Choir (principal conductor Artūras Dambrauskas) LITHUANIAN NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (artistic director and principal conductor Modestas Pitrėnas) Conductor ROBERTAS ŠERVENIKAS Host of the concert VIKTORAS GERULAITIS The programme compiled by DALIA BALSYTĖ Programme Woks by FAUSTAS LATĖNAS: piece for string quartet ...in extremis...; Sonata for violin and piano; piano trio Žvilgsnis pro aštunto aukšto langą (A Look Through the Window on the Eight-floor); Sonata for flute and piano; Samba lacrimarum for violin and piano; Pasodoble for viola and piano; Sonata for cello and piano; Agnus Dei for choir, organ and orchestra; string quartet No. 2 Šviesiam atminimui (In Loving Memory) Faustas Latėnas’ creative output amounts to over 200 works for theatre productions, as well as documentaries, feature and TV films in Lithuania and abroad, in addition to about fifty orchestral compositions and a large number of chamber music opuses. In 2015, the composer was awarded the Lithuanian National Culture and Art Prize for “The sounding Lithuanian theatre, and music as a worthwhile counterpart in theatrical action”. Latėnas is most noticeably infixed in the realm of theatre. Even his concert chamber music showcases theatricality – eloquent narration, emotions, ‘smiling through tears’. According to musicologist Viktoras Gerulaitis, Latėnas’ instrumental chamber music opuses constitute small musical spectacles where every musical gesture has a specific meaning often known to the composer only. He does not shun from banality or various reminiscences of familiar music, the strangest hypertrophied climaxes or provoking combinations. He is confident, that “to encode the inner tension one does not necessarily need many notes or sophisticated verbosity. It could be achieved with simple and known subjects, uncomplicated harmony.” In one of his interviews given earlier this year Latėnas admitted:” It seems to me that I already composed all my concert music. As majority of other composers, I wrote it before I turned 35-36. Later many of us only try to perfect what has been already written down. I do not complain – my concert music enjoys popularity to this day. And not only in Lithuania. Music for theatre fascinates me because when working on it I feel as if being on a life and artistic journey: new pieces, rehearsals, new actors, new ventures”. Thus, the concert dedicated to Latėnas’ 60th anniversary features his early works composed in 1977–1990, encapsulating the theatre spirit and passionate palette of Astor Piazzolla, presented by both long-time and younger performers of music by the hero of the day. The eventing’s highlight – one of his most known opuses – string quartet Šviesiam atminimui (In Loving Memory) arranged for symphony orchestra. Tickets – 14, 20, 30, 40 Eur Tuesday 7 June, 19.00 Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre Budapest Festival Orchestra Salutes Vilnius BUDAPEST FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA (Hungary) Conductor IVÁN FISCHER (Hungary) Soloist DÉNES VÁRJON (piano, Hungary) Host EGLĖ ULIENĖ Programme IGOR STRAVINSKY – Jeu de cartes FERENC LISZT – Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 2 in A major, S. 125 / R. 456 ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK – Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88 Internationally acclaimed Budapest Festival Orchestra appears in the Vilnius Festival for the first time. Established more than thirty years ago it is often heard in such concert venues as Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, Salzburg Summer Festival, Carnegie Hall in New York, Théâtre des ChampsÉlysées in Paris, Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Royal Festival Hall in London. The Budapest Festival Orchestra has collaborated with Sir Georg Solti, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Kurt Sanderling, Charles Dutoit, Gidon Kremer, Martha Argerich, Agnes Baltsa, Kiri Te Kanawa, and Radu Lupu to name but a few great masters. The podium will be graced by Iván Fischer, the artistic director and one of the founders of the Orchestra. He has been at the Orchestra’s helm for thirty years. Fischer regularly collaborates with Berlin Philharmonics, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and various American orchestras. In 2008–2010, he was the principal conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington; currently he is the principal conductor of Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Pianist Dénes Várjon is a universal musician: excellent soloist, first-class chamber musician, highly sought after piano pedagogue and artistic leader of festivals. As a soloist Várjon has appeared with Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonics, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Kremerata Baltica, London’s Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and other orchestras. The pianist has recorded for the Naxos, ECM, Teldec and Capriccio labels, appeared at leading international festivals from Edinburgh to Salzburg. Tickets – 35, 40, 50, 70, 80, 120 Eur Thursday 9 June, 19.00 Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall Symphony in Memoriam Mstislav Rostropovich LITHUANIAN NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Modestas Pitrėnas Soloist ŽILVINAS BRAZAUSKAS (clarinet) Conductor KERI-LYNN WILSON (Canada) Host GERŪTA GRINIŪTĖ Programme JEAN FRANÇAIX – Concerto for clarinet and orchestra GUSTAV MAHLER – Symphony No. 5 This concert is dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich (1927–2007), a legendary cellist, the world-famous musician and humanist, a long-time friend and colleague of Lithuanian musical community. Rostropovich could deservedly be called the godfather of the Vilnius Festival, which was launched on June 2, 1997 with the LNOBT’s ballet Romeo and Juliet under his baton. Rostropovich and Lithuanian musicians enjoyed a special comradeship. Before emigrating from the USSR, he often performed in Lithuania: in the beginning of the 1980s he conducted Tosca at the LNOBT (with V. Noreika and G. Vishnevskaya), in 1991 he led the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra in Spain. Having initiated a charitable concert in support of Lithuania’s independence, he said: ”Everything associated with Lithuania is dear to me”. On his visit to already independent Lithuania Maestro gave a concert with Washington Symphony Orchestra in the LNOBT on October 2, 1993; the following year organised the tour of the LNOBT’s group in Germany; in 1995 he was the soloist in Dvořák’s famous Cello Concerto at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall; in 2001 he conducted the LNSO in the programme dedicated to the 125th birth anniversary of M.K. Čiurlionis at the prestigious Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. Tonight we will meet clarinettist Žilvinas Brazauskas, the Mstislav Rostropovich Charity and Support Foundation scholarship holder (2007–2011), a winner of national and international competitions, and participant of various festivals. The podium will be graced by Canadian conductor Kerri-Lynn Wilson, former assistant to the legendary baton master Abbado in Salzburg Festival, and conducting fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. Tickets – 14, 20, 30, 40 Eur Friday 10 June, 19.00 Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall Mozart According to B’Rock B’ROCK ORCHESTRA (Belgium) Soloist and Artistic Director ALEXANDER MELNIKOV (historic piano, Russia) Host GERŪTA GRINIŪTĖ Programme WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART – Serenade for orchestra No. 6 in D major, KV 239 (Serenata Notturna); Symphony No. 36 in C major, KV 425 (Linz); Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 17 in G major, KV 453 Set up in 2005, the Belgian Baroque Orchestra B’Rock is one of the world’s leading collectives specialising in historically well-founded performance practices. It involves over twenty international musicians. The Orchestra gives about 45 concerts every season, both in Belgium and abroad. Its appearances are always theatrical, exciting and often stunning. For its concert programmes, B'Rock combines established works of baroque composition with the lesser-known repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries as well as contemporary music. The Baroque Orchestra has appeared in various concert halls and festivals including Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Cité de la Musique Paris, Cologne Philharmonic Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, London’s Wigmore Hall, Holland Festival, Wiener Festwochen, Operadagen Rotterdam and Bremen Musikfest to name but a few; collaborated with prominent soloists and choirs. Tonight’s soloist Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov discovered a career-long interest in historically informed performance practice at an early age. His major influences in this field include Andreas Staier and Alexei Lubimov. Melnikov performs regularly with such distinguished period ensembles as the Concerto Köln and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. The pianist has earned numerous awards for his recordings of Beethoven, Shostakovich and Weber’s music. As a soloist, Melnikov has performed with orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Philadelphia Orchestra, NDR Sinfonieorchester, Russian National Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic and Rotterdam Philharmonic among other orchestras. Tickets – 14, 20, 30, 40 Eur Sunday 12 June, 19.00 Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre Jules Massenet. Opera Manon Artistic director and conductor CYRIL DIEDERICH (France) Singers: Viktorija Miškūnaitė, Michael Spadaccini (Belgium), Eugenijus Chrebtovas, Julija Karaliūnaitė, Vilhelma Mončytė, Joana Stanelytė, Liudas Mikalauskas, Šarūnas Šapalas, Rafailas Karpis, Vladas Bagdonas Along with Gounod’s Faust and Bizet’s Carmen, Jules Massenet’s Manon is one of the most famous and beloved French operas in the repertoires of opera theatres. At the LNOBT the premiere of Manon was presented on 18 September, 2015. The production immediately attracted everyone’s attention and was greeted with very positive reviews from both the audience and the critics. According to the theatre’s general manager Gintautas Kėvišas, the main criterion for choosing creative team for Manon was its relation to the French operatic tradition. Thus, on the stage one can see the authentic chatter from the streets of Paris and the spellbinding charm of La Belle Époque. What makes this opera so attractive, even after 130 years have passed since its premiere at the Opéra Comique theatre in Paris on 19 January, 1884? The storyline of Manon itself contains a great amount of historical, psychological and social meanings that reach out to the consciousness of a contemporary human being, appealing to everyone’s personal feelings. And still, the central element of this opera is one woman’s drama, the “score” of her ambivalent experiences that never seems to change even as the ages pass. Massenet, the talented creator of melodies and lyricism, was also a profound psychologist who was capable of expressing a wide palette of emotions with which he painted impressive portraits of women. His sensitively nuanced music, filled with honest intimacy, still stirs the hearts of audiences around the world. Massenet manages to create an effective sound with a relatively modest amount of instruments. In his operas French text is masterfully combined with supple melodies, and the music itself is kind to the voices of opera soloists. It is gentle, peaceful, refined and subtle, overflowing with emotions and orchestral virtuosity, which combines scintillating velocity with transparency and an undeniable theatrical instinct. All operas by Massenet also serve as the most beautiful and intelligent examples of the culturally rich historical time La Belle Époque. The most popular of such operas, Manon, was unbelievably successful – its premieres followed one after another in the most important theatres of Europe and America. The opera was presented in Liverpool and New York (1885), London’s Royal Opera House (1891), Metropolitan Opera (1895; the theatre welcomed more than 300 different stagings of Manon!), San Francisco Opera Theatre (1924). Today, there exist thousands of performances and productions of Manon. Up to our days the number of productions of Manon are counted by thousands: until 1919 Opéra-Comique performed the opera 1000 times, by 1952 – 2000 times. In Lithuania Manon was presented in 1939 in Kaunas, and later, in 1964, it was welcomed in the city of Vilnius. According to Operabase, in 2012-2013 Massenet was the 20th most popular opera composer in the world, and the 4th creator among his French colleagues, following G. Bizet, J. Offenbach and Ch. Gounod. Tickets – 10, 12, 15, 18, 22, 38 Eur Monday 13 June, 19.00 Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall The Four Seasons to mark Lord Yehudi Menuhin’s Centenary LITHUANIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Artistic director, conductor and soloist SERGEJ KRYLOV (violin, Italy) Host GERŪTA GRINIŪTĖ Programme LORETA NARVILAITĖ – Į krantą jūra krenta (The Sea Breaks on the Shore) for string orchestra (2016, premiere of the festival) ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK – Serenade for strings in E major, Op. 22 ANTONIO VIVALDI – Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons), four concertos for violin and string orchestra: No. 1 in E major, La primavera (Spring), RV 269; No. 2 in G minor, L'estate (Summer), RV 315; No. 3 in F major, L'autunno (Autumn), RV 293; No. 4 in F minor, L'inverno (Winter), RV 297 This concert is dedicated to the 100th birth anniversary of Lord Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), the great humanist, legendary violinist and conductor, and close ally of Lithuanian musicians. The recipient of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas as well as the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre Honorary Doctorate, Menuhin collaborated with many a Lithuanian musician and collective. Only just with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra and Kaunas State Choir he gave 59 concerts, recorded two oratorios: Handel’s Messiah and Haydn’s The Creation. Standing ovations filled concert halls in Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Norway, Finland, Switzerland, Croatia, Slovenia and Egypt. Menuhin affectionately called the members of the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra and Kaunas State Choir “my Lithuanians”; while in his memoirs Unterwegs he described the LCO as magnificent. Concert programme features Vivaldi’s Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons) with the LCO’s artistic director Sergej Krylov, always brimming with unique ideas, as a soloist; Dvořák’s Serenade for strings in E major, Op. 22; and premiere of the Festival – Loreta Narvilaitė’s Į krantą jūra krenta (The Sea Breaks on the Shore) for string orchestra. “I named the opus after a poem by Antanas A. Jonynas. The sea is the movement and energy, the shore – the stasis. The sea is a mighty power; it alters the shore, washes away dunes. When working on the composition, I saw an image of the Dutchman’s Cap hill being continuously destroyed by the braking waves. There is no other slope on Lithuanian seashore as steep as this one. It was a place for putting warning signs for ships. Their signals can be heard in the composition, as can the screams of seagulls floating high above. Brief waving lines are reminiscent of sutartinės,” says the composer. Tickets – 14, 20, 30, 40, 50 Eur Wednesday 15 June, 19.00 Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre Hector Berlioz’s Requiem. Speak Out, You Heavens LITHUANIAN NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Modestas Pitrėnas Soloist GUSTAVO PORTA (tenor, Italy) KAUNAS STATE CHOIR Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Petras Bingelis CHORUS OF THE LITHUANIAN NATIONAL OPERA Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Česlovas Radžiūnas LITHUANIAN ARMED FORCES ORCHESTRA GROUP (leader cpt. Egidijus Ališauskas) Conductor CYRIL DIEDERICH (France) Host EGLĖ ULIENĖ Programme HECTOR BERLIOZ – Requiem (Grande Messe des morts), Op. 5 To mark the Day of Mourning the Vilnius Festival presents Berlioz’s Requiem, which he composed in 1837 after receiving an offer to write music in remembrance of the victims of the French Révolution de Juillet. He wrote in his letter to his sister: “At first the poem of the Dies irae so intoxicated and excited me that nothing lucid came to me.” Berlioz considered Requiem to be his best composition. Dramatic musical intent, a premonition of catastrophe rather than anticipation of blissful tranquillity, the nervous agitation and strong contrasts permeating Berlioz’ opus set it apart from its reserved and lyrical precursors – Requiem by Mozart or Verdi. Berlioz has conceived it for huge performing forces – 500 or 600 musicians. Tonight this monumental opus will be performed by the LNSO and the Lithuanian Armed Forces Orchestra, Kaunas State Choir and the LNOBT choir. Soloist – tenor Gustavo Porta appears in various opera theatres around the globe, conductor – French Maestro Cyril Diederich, whom Lithuanian audience remembers leading the premiere of Manon in the LNOBT in 2015. Tickets – 10, 12, 15, 18, 22, 38 Eur Saturday 18 June, 19.00 Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre Giuseppe Verdi. Opera Don Carlos Artistic director and conductor PIERRE VALLET (France) Singers: Askar Abdrazakov (Russia), Adam Diegel (USA), Eugenijus Chrebtovas, Liudas Mikalauskas, Česlovas Nausėda, Viktorija Miškūnaitė, Eglė Šidlauskaitė, Gunta Gelgotė, Ina Tervydytė, Vladas Bagdonas, Žygimantas Galinis, Arūnas Malikėnas, Deividas Staponkus, Šarūnas Šapalas, Rokas Šveisteris LNOBT‘s latest premiere, Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Don Carlo, immediately turned into one of the most significant theatre productions, and the extremely diverse opinions that it caused only prove the fact that this version of G. Verdi’s masterpiece generates a very strong impact on its viewers. And how could it be any different? After all, Don Carlo (which is perceived as a representation of the grand opera genre) is a majestic work of art not only because of its wonderful musical material, but also due to the impressive historical characters and dramatic storyline. The creative team of the current production presented their own version of Don Carlo, refusing all sorts of theatrical illustrations and instead focusing on the revelation of deepest layers of meaning, hidden within music and text. This new production of Don Carlo was created by the famous German visionary director Günter Krämer, prominent conductor Pierre Vallet, who is in demand all over the world, and set designer-dramaturg Herbert Schäfer. G. Verdi’s Don Carlo was first unveiled to the audiences in 1867, in Paris. Opera itself was written after Friedrich Schiller’s play. The latter contained everything that G. Verdi was looking for: having left behind superficial dramatic theatricality and librettos filled with romantic passions, he settled upon works that displayed a great deal of concealed tragedy. These works no longer possessed the overactive action on the exterior – instead, they were overflowing with inner turmoil, quests to find the real human values and longing for humanity itself. As a genius master of the dramaturgy of music, Verdi was very much aware of the fact that a political drama on its own is far less handy when it comes to showing audience's favourite passionate collisions of feelings that are usually present in stories of dramas within families. Thus, in Don Carlo he merged the two spheres together, creating the perfect collision between personal, political and ideological conflicts. Verdi was only 53 when the score for Grand Opera in Paris was completed, however, he spent around 20 years editing, abridging Don Carlo, omitting some of its scenes and putting them back into the score... No other opera had so many editions and corrections. According to conductor Pierre Vallet, “in Verdi’s score one can hear many times when he bowed to convention established by the Parisian public, and when he is his own master. It is worth wondering how the opera would have sounded without all these conventions. This is what Günter and I embarked to do. We tightened the action and increased the tension of the drama. We made musical cuts to intensify the impact of the music and we sometimes rearranged the order of the scenes for greater continuity. We feel confident that Verdi would have been quite excited about this version“. The main goal of the director was to delve deep into G. Verdi’s opera and eliminate all possible clichés that have been plaguing it ever since it was first presented on the Parisian stage in the 19th century. According to G. Krämer, while listening to ballet or entourage scenes one can obviously hear that it is “empty music”. “G. Verdi was very much aware of conventions and wrote those scenes for the Parisian boudoir. He prepared eight versions of Don Carlo, which only proves the fact that he himself was not fully happy with the final result and form of the work.” G. Krämer’s production is filled with unexpected theatrical solutions and interesting correlations. He was affected and inspired by the rock star David Bowie’s spectacular farewell message, his final album Blackstar. Since one of the central scenes of Don Carlo is that of an auto-da-fe arranged by the Spanish Inquisition, the aesthetics of the video for album’s title song Blackstar have become certain point of departure for the staging. All inspirations generate a maximum strength of impact for the audience. Tickets – 10, 12, 15, 18, 22, 38 Eur Monday 20 June, 19.00 Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall Mūza Rubackytė’s Recital Duality MŪZA RUBACKYTĖ (piano; Lithuania, France, Switzerland) Host GERŪTA GRINIŪTĖ Programme ROBERT SCHUMANN – Arabeske, Op. 18; Carnaval, Op. 9 MIKALOJUS KONSTANTINAS ČIURLIONIS – Preludes: B minor, VL 169; D minor, VL 294; F minor, VL 197; Nocturnes: F sharp minor, VL 178; C sharp minor, VL 183 SERGEI PROKOFIEV – Piano sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82 This year pianist Mūza Rubackytė brings to Vilnius Festival a recital with an enigmatic title: Duality. She has chosen to program Robert Schumann, an individual that had suffered from despondence and inner contradictions, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, possessed by two passions – music and painting, and Sergei Prokofiev, ravaged by a totalitarian regime and having matured in a free world. The pianist quotes poet Charles Baudelaire: “An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.” With every concert appearance Rubackytė sets the door ajar to her rich world saturated with life and artistic experience. It seems that she takes one by hand and ushers to uncharted territories through imprinting the well-known compositions with distinct and unique meanings. A recipient of the Lithuanian National Prize and the 3rd Class Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, internationally recognised pianist performs in all continents, gives recitals in prestigious halls such as Wigmore Hall in London, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Beethoven Haus in Bonn, Salle Gaveau and Opera in Paris, Villa d’Este in Tivoli, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Auditorio Blas Galant in Mexico, Santiago, Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, Casals Hall in Tokyo, etc. Rubackytė is the founder and artistic director of the Vilnius Piano Music Festival, Professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre; leads master classes around the globe. Tickets – 14, 20, 30, 40, 50 Eur Tuesday 21 June, 19.00 Compensa Concert Hall Maraca & his Latin Jazz All Stars Septet The Fleeting Night of Jazz ORLANDO VALLE MARACA (flute, group leader, arranger) STEVE TURRE (trombone, Conch shells) ROBBY AMEEN (percussion) MARIO CANONGE (piano) ORLANDO POLEO (percussion) FELIPE CABRERA (double bass) TIM MAYER (saxophone) Host JULIJUS GRICKEVIČIUS The fiery flutist Orlando Valle Maraca and his Latin Jazz All Stars Septet proceed with their European tour! After concerts in Mexico and the coveted Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris Maraca comes to Lithuania! In fact, with Otra Visión jazz group he has appeared in the Vilnius Festival in 2003. Orlando Valle Maraca is one of the leading flutists in Latin America, and also has outstanding reputation as a pianist, composer and arranger. He is the Grammy nominee and according to Island Beat (2000) plays the leading role in Cuban music evolution. He started his career in groups of Emiliano Salvador and Bobby Carcassès, was a member of and arranger for Chucho Valdés’ Irakere, the world’s best Latin jazz group at the time. Before long he got interested in music aspects that are vernacular to both American and Cuban music claiming that jazz and Cuban music share the African rhythmic and intonation patterns. “I learned the most when making music with others: their energy fascinated me – we share it when playing together,” says Maraca. “In Cuban music I find elements of three cultures – African, Spanish and French. This music originated from their combination. Today Cuban musicians are hardly interested in their roots, while for me getting back to it is very important.” This time the flute virtuoso and improviser Maraca invites to a musical journey together with his Latin Jazz All Stars Septet, which has given concerts around the globe. Inspired by the native music traditions as well as legacy of Cuban composers, their music presents an intriguing blend of jazz and Afro-Cuban style phenomenally enriched by the refreshing solos of Maraca’s Cuban flute. And all of this is heightened by the mastery of Maraca’s partners ranked among the most spellbinding jazzmen, Grammy winners and nominees, jazz innovators: American luminaries Steve Turre (trombone, Conch shells), Robby Ameen (percussion) and Tim Mayer (saxophone), promising Venezuelan percussionist Orlando Poleo, outstanding pianist Mario Canonge from Martinique and talented Cuban double bassist Felipe Cabrera. For the Vilnius Festival audience the musicians present a programme based on the repertoire of Maraca and his colleagues most famous DVD (Reencuentros, live at the Grand Theater of Havana), which was voted the best recording of the year. According to the world press, this music is a dream, history and assertion that our differences can be shared to conquer the prejudices. Wherever they perform, they make the borders disappear and music, smiles and creative freedom reign. Tickets – 18, 25, 33 Eur *** Organizers of the 20th Vilnius festival: Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society, Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, PI „Vilnius festivals“ and Vilnius City Municipality www.vilniusfestival.lt Organisers of the Festival reserve the right to change concert programmes and performers. The information is correct at the time of going to print 2016 05 10 HOW TO BOOK Via Internet – 24-hour service, which takes only few minutes and doesn’t include purchase charge (transaction fees may apply). In person at the National Philharmonic Box Office (to the Festival events on June 5, 7, 9, 10, 13, 15, 20). Opening hours: Mon-Sat 10 am–7 pm (lunch brake 1.30 pm–2 pm), Sun 10 am–12 noon. 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