Octorber 4 | 19:00
Energy and Technology Museum (Rinktinės st. 2)
Old Things
Resonate New
New Vocal Music Collective “Melos” (Lithuania)
Ensemble "Vertixe Sonora" (Spain)
Conductor Vykintas Baltakas
INTERNATIONAL
PROGRAM
Every day, we acquire and part ways with dozens, if not hundreds, of various objects—from disposable bags and packaging to old bicycles and unused chairs. Can we even imagine how many items pass through our hands over a lifetime?
In their joint creative project, the New Vocal Music Collective “Melos” and Ensemble “Vertixe Sonora” present a program that reflects on our consumption habits and the challenges they bring. In the concert, familiar instruments and vocal parts are complemented by various everyday items, tools, and discarded objects. These items are reborn and take on new meanings in the music of today’s creators.
Concert Program
For voices, flute, oboe, saxophone, violin, piano, percussion, and objects
Commissioned by the ensemble “Vertixe Sonora”
For piano and bicycle
For a special conductor, 5 voices, objects, and electronics
Commissioned by the collective “Melos”
For "voices", ensemble, and turntable
Commissioned by the collective “Melos”
For 5 voices, flute, oboe, alto saxophone, violin, piano, percussion, and bells
Commissioned by the collective “Melos”
Performers
Melos
Vadovas – Vykintas Baltakas
Karolina Ramonė (Music Director)
Gabrielė Bilevičiūtė
Justina Leinartaitė
Karolina Macytė
Ūla Zemeckytė
Melos is a women‘s collective working in the field of new vocal music. Performing works by living composers and sound artists, the collective seeks to create a space for practices of reduced and experimental music. The main field of activity includes cooperation with artists and composers of various fields. The collective constantly initiates creative projects, new compositions and presents them at contemporary music festivals, concerts or publishing activities. Currently, the collective has released four albums featuring works by Lithuanian composers, most of which were commissioned by the collective.
Performing in variously sized groups – from solo to choir, the collective presented programs together with sound artists Artūras Bumšteinas ir Gytis Bertulis, Jacob Kirkegaard, Hardi Kurda, composers Klaus Lang, Rita Mačiliūnaitė, Dominykas Digimas, Žibuoklė Martinaitytė, Ryčis Mažulis, Albertas Navickas, Mykolas Natalevičius and many more. Melos performed together with cellist Anton Lukoszevieze, Cello Club, Synaesthesis, saxophonists-improvisers Katarsis4, worked with choreographer Giedrė Jankauskienė, theatre director Saulė Degutytė.
VERTIXE SONORA
Vadovas – Vykintas Baltakas
Clara Saleiro – Flute
Pilar Fontalba – Oboe
Pablo Coello – Saxophone
Roberto Alonso – Violin
David Durán – Piano
Since its presentation in 2011, Vertixe Sonora has developed intense activity throughout the territory, with national and international tours. In addition to the 254 concerts performed, there are also informative and educational activities. Concerts in dialogue with the arts, with knowledge, with technology, with a strong commitment to musical creation that has generated 322 world premieres of composers from 49 different countries.
A decade of productions and concerts in different festivals and cycles in Spain. Its international recognition has allowed him to perform on stages in Germany, the United States, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, South Africa and Brazil.
Martín Codax Award 2016 of Contemporary Classical Music, his work was collected in the documentaries Sonutopias (campUSCulturae of the University of Santiago de Compostela, 2014), Correspondencias Sonoras (Manuel del Río, 2013) and La lira del desierto (Manuel del Río 2020), the latter in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the birth of the composer Enrique X. Macías. In addition to the CD with the finalist works of the XXVI Premio Jóvenes Compositores Fundación SGAE-CNDM, he recorded for WERGO the cycle Die Wanderung by the composer Lula Romero, and for the NEOS label The Dimension of the Fragile (2019), a monograph on the Mexican composer Víctor Ibarra, and Peripheral Spaces (2022) monograph on the Colombian composer Camilo Méndez.
Vertixe Sonora is a member of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) since 2021.
DOMINYKAS SNARSKIS
Perkusija
Drummer of jazz, improvisation and academic music. The artist performs with the groups Luvhurtz, Quark Effect, Artisans, and takes part in performances organized by contemporary music composers. The performer is the laureate of the Young Creator Award of the Ministry of Culture, the grand prix winner of the Vilnius Jazz Young Power competition, awarded the prize established by the Royal Conservatory of Scotland “Fog Arts” for progress in improvisation in jazz music.
VALDAS NARKEVČIUS
Elektronika
Gintaras Šeputis
Vizualizacija
VYKINTAS BALTAKAS
Dirigentas
Kiti festivalio renginiai
Lapkričio 16 d. 19 val.
Lietuvos kompozitorių sąjunga
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Lietuvos kompozitorių sąjunga
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Lietuvos kompozitorių sąjunga
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Lietuvos kompozitorių sąjunga
Lapkričio 16 d. 19 val.
Lietuvos kompozitorių sąjunga
Lapkričio 16 d. 19 val.
Lietuvos kompozitorių sąjunga
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