DOCTORAL STUDENTS: Neringa Valuntonytė, Julija Ivanovaitė

2021 March 1, Monday, 19:00

Online broadcast on the tv.lmta.lt from LMTA Great Hall

LMTA DOCTORAL STUDENTS

Neringa Valuntonytė (piano, prof. Ewa Kupiec) 
Julija Ivanovaitė (violin, assoc. prof. Dainius Puodžiukas)

With participation: 
Paulius Andersson (piano)

Programme: 

Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937) 
9 Preludes op. 1: 
Andante ma non troppo 
Andante con moto 
Andantino 
Andantino con moto 
Allegro molto – Impetuoso 
Lento – Mesto 
Moderato 
Andante ma non troppo 
Lento – Mesto

Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937) 
Métopes – 3 Poemes op. 29 
L’île des Sirènes 
Calypso 
Nausicaa 
Neringa Valuntonytė (piano)

Philip Glass (1937) 
Sonata for violin and piano, Parts I–III
Julija Ivanovaitė (violin) 
Paulius Andersson (piano) 

Lithuanian pianist Neringa Valuntonyte is gathering audiences throughout Europe with a big variety of solo and chamber music repertoire. Always searching for different performance ideas, Neringa branches out by giving conceptual concerts and giving a lot of attention to rarely-heard modern music. Neringa actively gives performances in many different festivals based in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Ukraine and has recently increased her number of performances in Germany, after a successful debut with her recital En Voyage in Jiang Artists Festival in 2018. Besides solo concerts, Neringa has also presented herself together with such orchestras as Lviv Chamber Orchestra Akademia, Panevėžys Chamber Orchestra and Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra and collaborated with such conductors as Igor Pylatiuk, Vidmantas Kapučinskas and Modestas Pitrėnas. Neringa has also received an immense success in her home country, where she has won the third prize in the VIII International M. K. Čiurlionis piano and organ competition in November 2019.

Julija Ivanovaitė is a Lithuanian violinist and violist. Born in 1994, Julija is a passionate advocate of contemporary classical music, specializing in performing new music and collaborating with present composers. Since 2011, Julija is an artist of the New Ideas Chamber Orchestra NICO – a string ensemble, established in 2006 by a prominent Lithuanian composer Gediminas Gelgotas. As a member of the ensemble, Julija Ivanovaitė performs at the world’s leading concert venues, including Leipzig Gewandhaus, St. Martin- in-the-Fields, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, the Roundhouse in London, as well as prestigious music festivals – Usedomer Musikfestival, Toulon Music Festival, Ventura Music Festival and others. Currently Julija is completing her art doctoral studies at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (class of assoc. prof. D. Puodžiukas).

Julija’s partner on stage – third generation Lithuanian-Danish pianist Paulius Andersson. The winner of fifteen international competitions, Paulius has toured extensively all around the world and given concerts in USA, Indonesia, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Slovakia, Georgia, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Lithuania, as well as performed in prestigious music festivals in Lithuania (Pažaislis Festival, Kristupas Festival, Bistrampolis Festival, M. K. Čiurlionis Music Festival) and abroad.