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SHAKUHACHI FLUTE SOUNDS  

2022 October 8, Saturday, 19:00

Vytautas Kasiulis Art Museum (A. Goštauto 1, Vilnius)

SHAKUHACHI FLUTE SOUNDS  

PROGRAMME

Traditional shakuhachi melody Honkyoku-Kokū (Empty sky) 
Vytautas Germanavičius. Tsuru No Mai  
Yasutaki Inamori. Hitotoki-Hitofuki  
Erika Kimura. The Touch of Colors  
Kristupas Bubnelis. …ad infinitum…  
Yu Kuwabara. Six Voices 
Vytautas Germanavičius. Be Titro

PERFORMERS

Reison Kuroda (shakuhachi, Japan) 
Chordos String Quartet
Ieva Sipaitytė (I violin) 
Vaida Paukštienė (II violin) 
Robertas Bliškevičius (viola) 
Arnas Kmieliauskas (cello)
Kristupas Gikas (flute) 
Vytautas Giedraitis (clarinet) 
Conductor Linas Rupšlaukis

Entrance free


In 2022, the centenary of the foundation of the ISCM – International Society for Contemporary Music – is widely celebrated around the world. In the year of the organization’s anniversary, Lithuania, which became a member of the ISCM global network in 1936, is holding the International Lithuanian Music Dissemination Exchange together with the Japan Federation of Composers Inc. (JFC). This year, the concerts of the exchange program will be given in Vilnius on October 7 and 8, with the participation of performers playing traditional Japanese instruments. They are shakuhachi virtuoso Reison Kuroda and koto performer Nobutaka Yoshizawa. Japanese musicians together with Chordos quartet will play music by Japanese and Lithuanian contemporary composers. Furthermore, the electronic music project AMBISONIC is presently organized. The concerts marking the anniversary of ISCM are to be held in the hall of Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art and in Julius Juzeliūnas Spatial Sound Sphere of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. You are welcome!

The concerts are connected with the programme of the Baltic Musicological Conference