The composer, pianist and jazz teacher Arūnas Navakas is better known in jazz and popular music milieus. According to the composer, he is mostly interested in combination of styles and genres, tonality and atonality, the modern and the traditional. In his compositions he likes to work with familiar context, as if commenting on it; quite relaxed and free (but not necessarily improvisatory) flow of musical ideas goes well here with clearly defined form. The composer is also wel-known music arranger, together with Kęstutis Antanėlis he wrote rock opera "Peer Gynt" and made an important contribution producing the most popular Lithuanian rock opera of all times "Love and Death in Verona".
Lina Navickaitė
