GAIDA | Contemporary Music Festival

  • Sept. 6, 2019

Contemporary Music Festival
October 4-19, 2019, Vilnius


FRANCESCO TRISTANO | piano & live electronics, LCO, MARTYNAS STAKIONIS

October 4, Friday | 19:00 | National Gallery of Art, Great Hall
OPENING CONCERT OF THE FESTIVAL (in three parts)

Dominykas Digimas. I daydreamed the dripping sand (world premiere)
Arvo Pärt. Adam‘s Lament
x x x
Francesco Tristano. Island Nation for piano and orchestra
Francesco Tristano. Tokyo Stories (piano solo)
x x x
Francesco Tristano. Live Electronics Set

Performers:
FRANCESCO TRISTANO (piano & live electronics)
LITHUANIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
With participation of: Choir Vilnius
Conductor:
MARTYNAS STAKIONIS


ŽILVINAS KEMPINAS & JUSTĖ JANULYTĖ: SKYCITY, WAVES

October 5 | National Gallery of Art:
15:00, 16:00, 17:00, 18:00

October 6 | National Gallery of Art:
13:00, 14:00, 15:00

October 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 | National Gallery of Art:
13:00, 14:00, 15:00, 16:00, 17:00

October 13 | National Gallery of Art:
13:00, 14:00, 15:00, 16:00


ANDY STOTT Live

October 5, Saturday | 20:00 | National Gallery of Art, Great Hall

Also: QUANTONOM Live (LT), MARTA SMILGA (LV)


VACLOVAS NEVČESAUSKAS & VYTAUTAS V. JURGUTIS: QUANTONOM

October 6 | National Gallery of Art:
14:00, 15:00, 16:00

October 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19  | National Gallery of Art:
14:00, 15:00, 16:00, 17:00, 18:00

October 13 | National Gallery of Art:
14:00, 15:00, 16:00, 17:00


TRISTAN PERICH Live

October 9, Wednesday | 19:00 | National Gallery of Art

Tristan Perich. Noise Patterns for two-channel 1-bit electronics
Tristan Perich. Parallels for tuned triangles, hi-hats and 4-channel 1-bit electronics

Performers:
TRISTAN PERICH (live electronics, USA)
MEEHAN / PERKINS DUO (percussion, USA)


MAX COOPER Live AV, FRANCK VIGROUX “Chronostasis”, SRAUNUS

October 10, Thursday | 20:00 | National Gallery of Art, Great Hall


SYNAESTHESIS: WAVES

October 11, Friday | 20:00 | National Gallery of Art

Peter Adriaansz. Waves


TANYA TAGAQ | Polaris Prize winner with orchestra: LNSO, MODESTAS PITRĖNAS

October 12, Saturday | 19:00 | National Gallery of Art, Great Hall

Thomas Ades. Tevot
Algirdas Martinaitis. Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra
(world premiere)
Tanya Tagaq, Christine Duncan, Jean Martin. QIKSAAKTUQ for Tanya Tagaq and orchestra
Tanya Tagaq. Solo performance

Performers:
TANYA TAGAQ (voice, Canada)
LITHUANIAN NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Soloists:
RŪTA LIPINAITYTĖ (violin), INDRĖ BAIKŠTYTĖ (piano)
Conductor:
MODESTAS PITRĖNAS


SYNAESTHESIS: SHIVERS

October 13, Sunday | 18:00 | National Gallery of Art

Chaya Czernowin. Sahaf
Mirela Ivičević. Case Black

Jagoda Szmytka. greetings from doppelgänger
Brigitta Muntendorf. Shivers on Speed
Brigitta Muntendorf. Keep Quiet And Dance (version #2)


BRIGITTA MUNTENDORF | ENSEMBLE GARAGE | CIO D‘OR

October 15, Tuesday | 19:00 | National Gallery of Art
Clip & Club, Plug & Play:

Brigitta Muntendorf. Public Privacy 3.1 #Trumpet Cover covered by Trombone for trombone, electronics & video
Michael Beil. Caravan for 4 musicians, live video and fixed media
Brigitta Muntendorf. Public Privacy #Aria for keyboard solo, voice & video
Piotr Peszat. Real Life Proof (new version, premiere) for 4 instruments, video & electronics
Piotr Bednarczyk. Nervous for piano, viola, cello and tape
Brigitta Muntendorf. #AsPresentAsPossible for 3 musicians & video & electronics
Improvisation set with electronic artist Cio D‘or


JONAS MEKAS. IN MEMORIAM: Glass, Perich, Kutavičius, Juzeliūnas

October 16, Wednesday | 19:00 | National Gallery of Art

Julius Juzeliūnas. Gėlių kalbėjimas (lyrics by Jonas Mekas)
Bronius Kutavičius. Ant kranto (lyrics by Jonas Mekas)
Tristan Perich. Interface for string quartet and 4 channel 1 bit electronics
Philip Glass. String Quartet No. 3 (Mishima)

Performers:
VILNIUS STRING QUARTET
GUNTA GELGOTĖ (soprano)


THIRD COAST PERCUSSION: Reich, Dillon, Skidmore, Hynes, Glass...

October 17, Thursday | 20:00 | National Gallery of Art, Great Hall

Philip Glass. Madeira River
Gemma Peacocke. death wish

Augusta Read Thomas. Resounding Earth
Steve Reich. Mallet Quartet
Robert Dillon. Ordering Instincts
Devonté Hynes. Perfectly Voiceless
David Skidmore. Torched and Wrecked
Philip Glass. Perpetulum


BRIAN ENO – Apollo: ICEBREAKER with B J Cole

October 18, Friday | 19:00 | National Gallery of Art, Great Hall

Anna Meredith. Nautilus; The Vapours
Scott Walker. Epizootics

Kate Moore. New work (commission by Icebreaker and European Space Agency)
x x x
Brian Eno. Apollo


STEVE REICH – Music For Ensemble And Orchestra, THOMAS ADÈS, KIRILL GERSTEIN, LSSO

October 19, Saturday | 19:00 | Congress Concert Hall
FINAL CONCERT OF THE FESTIVAL

Thomas Adès. Polaris
Thomas Adès. In Seven Days for piano and orchestra
Žibuoklė Martinaitytė. Saudade (world premiere)
Steve Reich. Music for Ensemble and Orchestra

Performers:
KIRILL GERSTEIN (piano, USA)
LITHUANIAN STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conductors :
THOMAS ADÈS (Great Britain)
KAROLIS VARIAKOJIS