Jazz And Cocoa | VU Jazz Voices contert

Welcome the upcoming winter holidays together with the Vilnius University Culture Centre ensemble “VU Jazz Voices”, which on December 15th at 19:00 will gift a warm musical evening filled with Christmas magic and the scent of hot cocoa at the VU Aula Parva café.

The jazz choir, now in its fifth year and led by jazz vocal and improvisation teacher Martynas Vilpišauskas, brings together talented university students who seek to develop their vocal abilities and delve into the nuances of jazz singing. This year, the ensemble has added gospel pieces as well as popular Lithuanian and international Christmas songs to its repertoire, so during the evening you will hear well-known melodies such as:

• Jingle Bell Rock

• Mano kalėdų stebuklas (My Christmas Miracle)

• Winter Wonderland

• Sentimentai

• Antilopė

• Orchidėja

• Night and Day

• I Smile

• Stars Fell on Alabama

• Moondance

• Blue Moon

• Fire

This concert is part of the Vilnius University Culture Centre’s Christmas events cycle. Under one roof, the VU Culture Centre hosts ensembles that have nurtured their traditions for decades, whose concerts and premieres continually invite audiences to experience high-quality artistic performances. Follow the latest news and upcoming events on the VU Culture Centre’s social networks and website:

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Event organizer – Vilnius University Culture Centre.

From 2021, Vilnius University Culture Centre invites you to join the musical project "VU Jazz Voices". The collective aims to bring together talented jazz and swing music-loving university people who want to develop their vocal abilities and create a special, spectacular music programs.

Many universities and colleges around the world encourage young people to choose as many genres of music as possible. According to Gintė Jokubaitienė, head of the VU Culture Centre, the idea to offer students a musical project in which they could learn the peculiarities of jazz singing arose after the "Talent Evening" organized by the VU Community Department. "I saw how many really musical, talented people we have at the university. I felt that the possibilities of some voices, timbres of sound would be revealed much better in a jazz singing style. Although most students attend choirs and have their own groups, I think we still have a lot of room for the expansion of musical culture at the university", says G. Jokubaitienė..

Jazz vocal and improvisation teacher, performer Martynas Vilpišauskas was invited to lead the musical project.

"Jazz choir is a combination of two of my favorite things. Jazz is the freedom to create, improvise and interpret, while choir is a genre of precise, unified vocal singing. Although I myself have been singing and playing since childhood, I keep discovering something new every day. There are no boundaries in music, and when making music I think it's best to just be in the moment", says M. Vilpišauskas.