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EVENTS

2009-10-24 -- 2009-10-31

GAIDA 2009


 

19th International Contemporary Music Festival

24-31 October, 2009

 

 

CITY (FOCUS OF THE FESTIVAL):

SOUNDS OF THE CITY > URBAN INTERACTION WITH MUSIC > SONIC IDEA OF THE CITY

 

 

24 Octoper, Saturday, 7 pm, National Philharmonic Hall

OPENING CONCERT OF THE FESTIVAL

LITHUANIAN NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Conductor ROBERTAS ŠERVENIKAS

György Ligeti. San Francisco Polyphony (Lithuanian premiere)

Remigijus Merkelys. GPS > North (world premiere, commission of the GAIDA Festival)

Egidija Medekšaitė. The Pleiades (world premiere, commission of the GAIDA Festival)

Esa-Pekka Salonen. LA Variations (Lithuanian premiere)

 

24 Octoper, Saturday, 9.30 pm, PIANO.LT Hall

FESTIVAL‘S FRINGE

I AM

Musical fiction in three movements for live and computer sounds by Martynas Bialobžeskis and Jonas Jurkūnas (world premiere, commission of the GAIDA Festival)

Performed by Kęstutis Vaiginis (saxophones), Andrė Pabarčiūtė, Daumantas Slipkus (pianos), Diissc Orchestra

Stage design by Gintaras Makarevičius, video by Gintaras Skėrys and Rūta Balsevičiūtė

 

25 October, Sunday, 7 pm, National Gallery of Art

CITY LIFE

Gaida Ensemble

Conductor ROBERTAS ŠERVENIKAS

Marius Baranauskas. A Song for Space

Krešimir Seletkovič. NO Music (Lithuanian premiere)

Nomeda Valančiūtė. Citizens of the Waking City (world premiere, commission of the GAIDA Festival)

Steve Reich. City Life (Lithuanian premiere)

 

26 October, Monday, 7 pm, National Gallery of Art

LATVIAN RADIO CHOIR

Conductor SIGVARDS KĻAVA

Ramūnas Motiekaitis. Symphonie de Septembre (world premiere, commission of the GAIDA Festival)

György Ligeti. Lux Aeterna

Mārtiņš Viļums. The Fate of King Lear‘s Children (Lithuanian premiere)

Santa Ratniece. chu-dál (Lithuanian premiere)

Luca Francesconi. Let Me Bleed (Lithuanian premiere)

 

27 October, Tuesday, 7 pm, National Gallery of Art

AN INDEX OF METALS

Ensemble ICTUS (Belgium)

Conductor GEORGES-ELIE OCTORS

Donatienne Michel-Dansac (soprano)

Video opera for soprano soloist, ensemble, electronics and multimedia, by Fausto ROMITELLI and Paolo PACHINI

Music: Fausto Romitelli

Texts: Kenka Lekovich

Video: Paolo Pachini, Léonardo Romoli

 

28 October, Wednesday, 7 pm, Dance Theatre

METROPOLIS

FRITZ LANG > MARTIN MATALON

Ensemble COURT-CIRCUIT (France)

French composer Martin Matalon created music for a famous film by Fritz Lang “Metropolis” (1927). Together with a movie, this music will be performed live by Court-Circuit, one of the leading contemporary music ensembles, under conducting of the author. Electronic part was prepared in cooperation with IRCAM. This multimedia project was commissioned by Théâtre du Châtelet Paris in 1995.

 

29 October, Wednesday, 7 pm, Museum of Applied Arts

KASKADOS TRIO. VILNIUS STRING QUARTET

With participation of the chamber choir JAUNA MUZIKA

Toru Takemitsu. Between Tides (Lithuanian premiere)

Vytautas Germanavičius. Flaking Archs (world premiere, commission of the GAIDA Festival)

Algimantas Kubiliūnas. Five Pieces for string quartet

Vytautas Laurušas. Wind of Dunes

Osvaldas Balakauskas. Quintet for piano and string quartet (world premiere)

Bronius Kutavičius. Sigitas‘ Five Miniatures (world premiere, commission of the GAIDA Festival)

 

30 October, Friday, 7 pm, Congress Concert Hall

CLOSING CONCERT OF THE FESTIVAL

LITHUANIAN STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Conductor PAUL MÄGI (Estonia)

Šarūnas Nakas. Resistance (world premiere, commission of the GAIDA Festival)

Johannes Maria Staud. On Comparative Meteorology (Lithuanian premiere)

Jurgis Juozapaitis. Sympho 2009 (world premiere, commission of the GAIDA Festival)

Michael Nyman. MGV / Musique à Grande Vitesse (Lithuanian premiere)

 

31 October, Saturday, 7 pm, National Gallery of Art

GAIDA POST SCRIPTUM

ST. CHRISTOPHER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Conductor DONATAS KATKUS

PETRAS GENIUŠAS (piano)

Vytautas Laurušas. Symphony X (world premiere, commission of the GAIDA Festival)

Remigijus Šileika. Concerto for piano and string orchestra

Henryk Mikolaj Górecki. Concerto for piano (or harpsichord) and string orchestra

Anatolijus Šenderovas. New work (world premiere, commission of the GAIDA Festival)

Julia Wolfe. Fuel (Lithuanian premiere)

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