PRINCIPLES OF MUSIC COMPOSING: SACRAL MUSIC
October 20
Composers’ Union House, A.Mickevičiaus 29
9.40 Registration of Participants
10.00 Opening of the Conference
FIRST SESSION: THE CONCEPTION OF SACRAL MUSIC AS A COMPOSING OBJECT, ITS SACRALITY AND SECULARITY SIGNS
10.30 Manfred Novak (Vienna, Austria). The Second Vatican Council and the Contemporary Composer: Continuously Conflicting Concepts or Ways Towards Reconciliation?
11.00 Vilius Sikorskas (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania). The Influence of the Musical Tradition of the Roman Catholic Church on the Expression of Christian Faith
11.30 Achilleas Chaldaiakis (University of Athens, Greece). “All Master Composers of Greek Ecclesiastic Music“: An Initial Step on a New History of Greek Sacral Music
12.00–12.30 Coffee-break
12.30 Izabela Bogdan (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland). Wedding – Between a Sacred Ceremony and Secular Event. Nuptial Music in Early Modern Königsberg
13.00 Luigi Verdi (Santa Cecilia Music Conservatoire, Rome, Italy). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Antiphony “Quaerite primum regnum” for Admission at Philharmonic Academy in Bologna (1770)
13.30 Yelena Zinkevych (National Academy of Music, Ukraine). Aspect of Liturgical Tradition in the Modern Genre-creative Process in Ukraine
14.00 Alfonsas Motuzas (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania). The Music of the Cotholic Folk Devotional Practices in Lithuania: Local or the Tradition of Other Nation?
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AFTERNOON WITH GREGORIAN CHANT
Cathedral Basilica
17.30 Open rehearsal – masterclass of gregorian chant by Mariusz Bialkowski with Schola Gregoriana Vilnensis singers
18.30 St. Mass in the Chapel of St. Casimir, with participation of Schola Gregoriana Vilnensis
October 21
Composers’ Union House, A.Mickevičiaus 29
SECOND SESSION: FEATURES OF SACRAL MUSIC COMPOSING
10.00 Mariusz Bialkowski (I. J. Paderewski Academy of Music, Poznań, Poland). Melody’s Aspect of Gregorian Compositions
10.30 Milda Paulikaitė (Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania). Sound in the Service of the Sacred: Mystagogical Aspect of Gregorian Chant
11.00 Demetrios Balageorgos (University of Athens, Greece). Tradition and Evolution of the Sticheraric Melopoeia: The Example of the Sticheron ‘Αναστάσεως ημέρα‘ (‘Resurrection Day‘)
11.30–12.00 Coffee -break
12.00 Danutė Kalavinskaitė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre). Litany – a Genre of Pieta
12.30 Grigorios Anastasiou (University of Athens, Greece). The Musical ‘Language’ of the Psaltic Art
13.00 Violeta Tumasonienė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre). The Expression of Word and Music in Pieces of Lithuanian Modern Music Based on Psalm Texts
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16.00 AFTERNOON IN ČIURLIONIS HOUSE
M. K. Čiurlionis’ House, Savičiaus 11
Darius Kučinskas (Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania). Sacral Music of M. K. Čiurlionis
Rimantas Janeliauskas (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre). M. K. Čiurlionis‘ Unrecognized Cycle of Preludes. Sacral and Structural Signs
M . K. Čiurlionis. Unrecognized Cycle of Preludes (first performance)
Birutė Vainiūnaitė (piano)
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18.30 CONCERT OF ORGAN MUSIC
St. Casimir Church
Manfred Novak (organ)
Scheidemann, Bach, Heiller, Herzogenberg, excerpts from the Klagenfurt Organ Tablature
October 22
Composers’ Union House, A.Mickevičiaus 29
THIRD SESSION: SACRAL MUSIC IN LITURGY AND BEYOND
10.00 Bogumila Mika (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland). Marian Repertoire in the Polish Art Music of the 20th Century. From Inspiration to Principal Composing
10.30 Dominic Wells (University of Durham, UK). Singing the Same Song: Crossing the Sacred/Secular Boundary in Mass Settings by James MacMillan
11.00 Marta Szoka (Academy of Music, Łódź, Poland). The Concept of Organ Repertoire as Sacral Music
11.30–12.00 Coffee-break
12.00 Bianca Temes (“Gh. Dima” Music Academy, Cluj,Romania). Byzantine Music Revisited: From Vocal Monody to Electronic Music in the Works of the Romanian Composers of the 20th Century
12.30 Olga Osadchaya (Volgograd State Institute of Arts, Russia). Sacral Space in Igor Vorobyev’s “Requiem”
13.00 Ewa Kowalska-Zajac (Academy of Music, Łódź, Poland). From Penderecki to Mykietyn. About the New Polish Passion Music
13.30 Ivan Moody (Universidade Nova, Lisbon, Portugal). Arvo Pärt: Aspects of Spirituality, Music and Text in the 21st Century
14.00 Discussions. Closing of the Conference
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POSTERS:
Evangelia Kopsalidou (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece). French Religious Music at the Court of Louis XIV (1643–1715): Motet, Mass, Oratorio
Igor Vorobyev (St. Petersburg Conservatory, Russia). The ‘New Religious’ Mission of Totalitarian Art in the Example of the Cantata and Oratorio Genres in the Works of Soviet Composers of the 1930s–1950s
Margarita Katunyan (Moscow Conservatory, Russia). “Exercises and Dances of Guido” by Vladimir Martynov Opera on a Gregorian Chant
Guntars Pranis (Latvian Academy of Music, Latvia). Gregorian Chant: Local Traditions, Their Meaning for Music Performance Today and New Approaches in Research
Kalliopi Stiga (University of Athens, Greece). ‘Greek Modern Poetry and Religiousness’ in the Work of Mikis Theodorakis
Nicola Davico (G. Verdi Conservatory, Turin, Italy). The Passion: a Crossroad Between Paths
