MUSIC AS DIALOGUE ø Muzikos ruduo / Baltic Music Days 2025
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On October 16, at 7 p.m., the Lithuanian Symphonic Wind Orchestra, conducted by Karolis Variakojis, will perform in the magnificent space of KABLYS. The festival MUSIC AUTUMN („Muzikos ruduo“) together with the festival BALTIC MUSIC DAYS will present programme MUSIC AS DIALOGUE, featuring premieres by composers from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
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Conducted by Karolis Variakojis, the Lithuanian Symphonic Wind Orchestra presents three world premieres in this festival programme, alongside two works being performed in Lithuania for the first time.
The evening features music by Ramūnas Motiekaitis, Mykolas Natalevičius, Marius Salynas (Lithuania), Gatis Jānis Pujāts (Latvia), and Kristjan Kõrver (Estonia). Drawing inspiration from diverse sources – from Charles Ives’s collage-like aesthetic to spiritual themes rooted in Biblical quotations, from natural phenomena to stylised allusions to cinema – these works reflect the festival’s theme through a creative dialogue between such phenomena and the language of music.
The Lithuanian Symphonic Wind Orchestra is a versatile and open-minded ensemble that performs music across a wide range of genres and styles. In recent years, it has become a particularly active champion of contemporary Lithuanian music, commissioning and premiering more than fifteen new works by Lithuanian composers.
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 16 October, 7:00 PM
Kablys
MUSIC AS DIALOGUE
Lithuanian Symphonic Wind Orchestra
Conductor Karolis Variakojis
Concert programme:
Ramūnas Motiekaitis | Seen & Unseen (2002, Lithuanian premiere)
Mykolas Natalevičius | Nex (2025, premiere)
Gaitis Jānis Pujāts (Latvia) | The Lobes of Clouds (2025, Lithuanian premiere)
Kristjan Kõrver (Estonia) | Ubi vult spirat (2025, premiere)
Marius Salynas | Cinema Cinema! (2025, premiere)
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This year, the Festival MUSIC AUTUM („Muzikos ruduo“) is joining forces with BALTIC MUSIC DAYS, a festival held annually in a different Baltic country.
This year's festival theme MEANING TRANSFORMATIONS invites us to look at intermediality and explore various forms of meaning transformation, observe the process of change itself, and discover how a whole new field of meanings opens up depending on the medium.
The theme was not chosen at random: in 2025, we are celebrating the 150th anniversary of M. K. Čiurlionis' birth. In his work, music and painting intertwined synesthetically, creating one of the most striking examples of how different artistic languages can extend and transform each other.
Organized by: VšĮ Muzikos ruduo
Funded by: Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius City Municipality
Strategic partners: Lithuanian Composers' Union, Baltic Contemporary Music Network
Information partners: LRT, Latvijas Radio 3 – Klasika, Klaasika Raadio
Partners:
Energy and Technology Museum, Kablys, Lithuanian Music Information Center, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, Latvian Composers' Union, Estonian Composers' Union, Estonian Cultural Council, GoVilnius.
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