SYMPHONY OF METAMORPHOSES ø Muzikos ruduo / Baltic Music Days 2025

On Saturday, October 18, at 7 p.m., “Kablys” club will host the closing night of the festival MUSIC AUTUMN (“Muzikos ruduo”)!

This year's festival will be crowned by an impressive performance SYMPHONY OF METAMORPHOSES by the Grammy Award-winning and world-renowned Latvian orchestra “Sinfonietta Rīga”, led by artistic director and conductor Normunds Šnē.
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Internationally acclaimed orchestra “Sinfonietta Rīga”, renowned for its conceptual programmes and outstanding artistic quality, comes to Vilnius with a new programme SYMPHONY OF METAMORPHOSES dedicated to the international strand of MUSIC AUTUMN’s programme BALTIC MUSIC DAYS, organised in collaboration with the Baltic Contemporary Music Network.

The festival’s closing programme will feature works by composers from all three Baltic countries (including two premieres!) that explore different transformations of meaning: walking as a spatial operation becoming the foundation of musical structure; the influence of the inner world on the distorted perception of external impulses, creating a world of false reflections; and, inspired by Grisey’s spectral explorations, the pursuit of organically intertwining temporal proportions with sonic spaces through the metaphor of the rainbow.

PROGRAMME

Saturday, 18 October, 7:00 PM
“Kablys”

SYMPHONY OF METAMORPHOSES
Sinfonietta Rīga (Latvia)
Artistic Director & Conductor Normunds Šnē

Concert programme

Jonas Jurkūnas | Walk the Walk (2025, premiere)
(Commission by LCU )
Marianna Liik (Estonia) | False Reflections (2025, premiere)
Linda Leimane (Latvia) | Ray-bows (2019)
Ruta Paidere (Latvia) | Tempera (2012)

In 2012, the composition “Tempera” was nominated for the Latvian Great Music Award as the Best New Composition of the Year.
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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.