Performing:
New Ideas Chamber Orchestra, Lithuania
Artistic director: Gediminas Gelgotas
Choirs: Pro musica, Gaudeamus, Lithuania
Artistic director: Rasa Gelgotiene
Choir: INTIS, Latvia
Artistic director: Ilze Valce

Conductors:
Gediminas Gelgotas
Rasa Gelgotiene
Ilze Valce

Hosted by:
Edgars Raginskis


This year on 27 February, a new and talented group of guest artists from Lithuania NI&CO/New Ideas Chamber Orchestra led by Gediminas Gelgotas, as well as their cooperation partners, choirs Pro musica, Gaudeamus from Vilnius, Lithuania and INTIS from Liepaja led by Rasa Gelgotiene and Ilze Valce respectively, will perform in the great hall of the Great Amber concert hall.

Each member of NI&CO is a winner of a number of international competitions, but the artistic director Gediminas Gelgotas is a promising, extraordinary Lithuanian composer whose compositions have already been performed in concerts and festivals in Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Germany, Austria, the UK, France etc.

The first part of the concert resembles a continuous and dynamic pulse that is made especially exciting by the activity on stage characteristic of the NICO chamber orchestra. The concert will be opened by the internationally highly acclaimed German-born British composer Max Richter’s recomposition of the famous Vivaldi concert: The Four Seasons based on postmodernism and minimalism means of expression. Summer will be performed in the concert.

Composition Fratres by the world famous Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, composed in a self-invented minimalism style tintinnabuli, will be performed next. The composition holds both expressive tension and noble silence, passing worldliness and endless infinity.

In the second half of the concert’s first part, listeners will have the chance to get to know compositions of the young and talented Lithuanian composer, conductor of a symphonic orchestra, pianist and trumpeter, the artistic director of NICO Gediminas Gelgotas, compositions that have achieved high praise -- Extracultural (2014) and Never Ignore the Cosmic Ocean (2011). The music of Gelgotas is characterised by both dynamic expressiveness and provocativeness, as well as ascetic and spiritual beauty; the style of his compositions is a polystylic fusion that is often complimented by bright and colourful audio visual effects.

The second part of the concert presents the complete opposite -- the dynamic vertical is replaced with a horizontal of silence and the search for inner spiritual strength, which asks the audience to listen to oneself, look for revelations and rise above the ordinary. Dona nobis pacem (1996) by Pēteris Vasks for a mixed choir and a string orchestra is filled with depth that appears as an infinite road of inner tension to divine revelation.

The harmonious bright colour filled Sunrise Mass (2008) by Ola Gjeilo for a choir and a string orchestra will continue that which was started by Dona nobis pacem -- from the spheres of the universe and shimmer of the sunrise the road leads to an acknowledgement of belonging to the temporary, as well as belief in the infinite.


Supporters:
Liepaja Culture Department
Liepaja University Student Council
Vilnius University

Place: Great hall

Organisers: SIA Lielais Dzintars and Liepāja Art and Culture Centre