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“Virtual orchestra” at the Gaida festival

A project by LENsemble Vilnius
Curated by Thomas Hummel and Vykintas Baltakas
 
Nov. 8, 19:00 Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
 
JULIA WOLFE – My Lips From Speaking for two pianos and audio playback (1993)
EGIDIJA MEDEKŠAITĖ – BhUtadhAtrI for five amplified trumpets and electronics (2018)
VYKINTAS BALTAKAS – Sandwriting (2018) dviem two keyboards and live electronics
ROLANDS KRONLAKS – Up in the Air for two trumpets, piano and electronics (2018)
JULIA WOLFE – East Broadway for toy piano and audio playback (1996)
THOMAS HUMMEL – Sadedz! for cello, two conTimbre keyboards and five trumpets (2018)
 
Laurynas Lapė, Aurimas Jankevicius, Andrius Stankevicius, Linas Rupšplaukis, Vilius Surdokas (trumpets)
Indrė Baikštytė ir Jonė Punytė (keyboards)
Gunda Baranauskaitė (cello)
Vytenis Gadliauskas (electronics)
 
Vykintas Baltakas (conductor)

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Presentation of “Sandwriting” for two keyboards and electronics at the festival-conference “Doctors in Performance”

Wednesday 5 September 2018, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Grand Hall
Keynote address: Vykintas Baltakas “Modal Form and Challenges for Interpreters of New Music”
Piano / Keyboard: Indrė Baikštytė
Chair: Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli
 
Doctors in Performance is a festival conference of music performance and artistic research, where music performers conducting artistic research at doctoral and post-doctoral levels present their artistic research in the form of recitals, concert lectures or paper presentations.
 
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New festival for contemporary music: “New Music Challenges/018” in Vilnius

The Lithuanian Ensemble Network collaborates with the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre as ”ensemble in residence”. Together with the department of composition LEN starts a new festival for contemporary music “New Music Challenges/018“.
 
January 11, 2018, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius
 
18:00. John Cage – a portrait
19:30. Improvisation
21:00. Electroacoustic music
 
January 12, 2018, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius
 
18:00. Works of the composition students 1
19:30. Works of the composition students 2
 
January 13, 2018, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius
 
19:00. LENsemble & Centre Henri Pousseur
Works of Stéphane Orlando, Guillaume Auvray, Vykintas Baltakas, Ignas Krunglevičius, Monika Sokaitė and Albertas Navickas
 
21:00. Electroacoustic music

Ensemble of contemporary music of the LMTA, LENsemble, Centre Henri Pousseur
Vykintas Baltakas, cond.

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LENsemble in Vilnius

2016, 20 October, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
45th Baltic musicological conference
Julius Juzeliūnas and the World
 
Works by Hanns Eisler, John Cage, Julius Juzeliūnas, Kevin Volans, Vitali Godziatski, Edison Denisov
 
LENsemble, Vykintas Baltakas, cond.
  
2016, 22 October, Contemporary Art Centre
26th Contemporary Music Festival GAIDA
Music in Image & Image in Music
  
Works by Stefan Prins, Vytautas V. Jurgutis (premiere), Tierry de Mey, Matthew Shlomowitz, Michael Beil, François Sarhan and Anatolijus Šenderovas (premiere)
  
Stéphane Ginsburgh (solo piano) Andrius Žiūra (solo clarinet), LENsemble

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Portrait CD by KAIROS

2016_Kairos_portrait

 
1. (co)ro(na) for ensemble 10:24
2. Pasaka for piano solo 05:15
3. Sinfonia for ensemble 03:25
4. b(ell tree)for string quartet 11:35
5. Ri for soprano and electronics 09:21
6. Poussla for ensemble and orchestra 14:47
7. Pasaka for piano and tape 08:43
8. Saxordionphonics for solo saxophone, accordion and orchestra 12:36
Total Time: 79:47
 
Artist(s):
Tokyo Sinfonietta, Benjamin Kobler, LENsemble (Lithuanian Ensemble Network), Chordos Quartet, Rita Balta, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Marcus Weiss, Teodoro Anzellotti, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Yasuaki Itakura, Vykintas Baltakas, Johannes Kalitzke, Emilio Pomárico
 

KAIROS-MUSIC
Catalogue No.: 0015004KAI
EAN Code: 9120040735043

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Mauricio Kagel concert trail in Vilnius

9.4.2016, 19:00 Energetikos ir technikos muziejus | Energy ant Technology Museum Vilnius (LT)
 

Kantrimiusik, 50′
Phantasiestück, 15′
Mitternachtsstük, 40′
 
Het Collectief ensemble
LENsemble (Lithuanian Ensemble Network)
Jauna Muzika choir
Oskaras Koršunovas, direction
Vykintas Baltakas, conductor
 
Full program book

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Recitativo and Commentum in Vilnius

11.11.2015, International Accordion Music Festival
Church of Saint Catherine, Vilnius
 
Recitativo (2015) for violin and piano
Commentum (2011) for cello and piano
 
Rusnė Mataitytė, violin
Edmundas Kulikauskas, cello
Albina Šikšniūtė, piano
Full program

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GAIDA festival Vilnius

GAIDA, 25th Festival of Contemporary Music
2015.10.27, 21:00
ŠMC | Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
 
Justina Repečkaitė – Tapisserie (2014)
Albertas Navickas – Accidental (2011)
Vykintas Baltakas – Redditio 2 (2013)
Justina Repečkaitė – Rapid Eye Movements (2014)
Ignas Krunglevičius – Gradients (2012)
Vykintas Baltakas – Redditio (2010)
Veronika Krausas – Analemma (2006)
 
LENsemble
Vykintas Baltakas, conductor

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Double portrait Wolfgang Rihm & Matthias Pintscher
Febr. 27 2014, Vilnius (LT)
 

Franz Schubert: Symphony No.5
Wolfgang Rihm: Ländler, Erscheinung, Am Horizont, Nature Morte
Matthias Pintscher: Study I for Treatise on the Veil, Figura III, Svelto
Wolfgang Rihm: Vier Male

 

Lithuanian Ensemble Network
Christopher Chamber Orchestra
Conductor Vykintas Baltakas
 
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Lithuanian Ensemble Network / Lietuvos Ansambliu Tinklas

Lapkričio 18-19d, Primiršta lietuviška muzika – retro atspindžiai

18-19 November, Lithuanian music 1960-1990 – A Retro-Flective

Kuratorius | Curator: Anton Lukoszevieze
 
Works of Antanas Rekašius, Geroge Maciunas, Arturas Bumšteinas, Šarūnas Nakas, Benjaminas Gorbulskis, Vytautas Montvila, Zigmas Virkšas…
 
Pilna programa / complete program book
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Portrait of Luciano Berio at the festival Jauna Muzika

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Jauna muzika – festival of electronic music, Vilnius
2013.4.4 Center of contemporary art Vilnius, 19:00



Sequenza III (1965)

Air (aus Oper) (1969/1970)

Naturale (1985)

El mar la mar sopranui (1952/1969)

O King (1968)

Lied (1983)

Differences (1958-1959)

Altra voce (1999)



Rita Balta (sopr.)
Rita Mačiliūnaitė (mezzo)
Lithuanian Ensemble Network

Vykintas Baltakas, cond.

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Lithuanian Ensemble Network: Results of the Competition

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The competition is designed to encourage current composition students of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre to write works for professional instrumental ensemble. The jury – Vykintas Baltakas, Šarūnas Nakas and Mindaugas Piečaitis – decided to support four young composers with encouragement awards:

 

  • Julius Aglinskas
  • Dominykas Digimas
  • Matas Drukteinis
  • Agnė Mažulienė


Their pieces will be performed by the Lithuanian Ensemble Network during an educational project in Vilnius, 2013.

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Portrait Concert at the Festival “Sugrįžimai”, Vilnius / Lithuania

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10 April, 6pm, Rotušė, Vilnius / Lithuania
Čiurlionis quartet
Rita Mačiliūnaitė (mezzo)
Ona Švabauskaitė (vc)
Rima Chačaturian (pno)
Jūratė Katinaitė (moderator)