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The third performance of Gelgotas’ latest work, The Sarabande of Vilnius, has just taken place in Vilnius. The premiere of the piece for choir and symphony orchestra took place at the National Philharmonic in Vilnius, performed by the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra and the Vilnius Municipal Choir “Jauna muzika”, conducted by Gelgotas himself.
Soon after, the second premiere at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic was announced, followed by another performance of the work – each of which attracted a large and enthusiastic audience, who celebrated the new composition with standing ovations for the author and the performers on stage.
The text of the new composition, dedicated to the 700th anniversary of the city of Vilnius, was written by the famous Lithuanian writer Kristina Sabaliauskaitė. The premiere was recorded and filmed by the National Philharmonic Television.

You can watch the full video recording of the premiere here (click on the link): https://nationalphilharmonic.tv

Violinist Daniel Hope presents the music of Gelgotas’ at the ARTE TV show Europe@Home

On Friday, February 19th, Gediminas Gelgotas’ music will be presented for international audiences at the ARTE Television program Europe at Home, hosted by the famous violinist David Hope. It is the first time Mr. Hope will be performing Gelgotas’ music. During the 40 minute TV show, Daniel Hope will perform To the Skies and Transitory by Gelgotas’. Gediminas will also perform two piano preludes of M. K. Čiurlionis and Cadenza and Never Ignore the Cosmic Ocean with the Lithuanian violinist, concertmaster of the New Ideas Chamber Orchestra NICO Augusta Jusionyte.

You can watch the show here (click on the link below)

Daniel Hope with Gediminas Gelgotas and Augusta Jusionytė – Watch the full programme | ARTE Concert

Gelgotas receives the highest award from the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture and gets appointed as an associate professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater.

In September 2020, Gediminas Gelgotas was awarded the highest award of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania for merits in Lithuanian culture – the badge of honor “Bring your light and believe”. The composer was awarded for the original, innovative artistic expression, emotional persuasion of creation, and musical diversity, passing on his experience to the young generation of musicians, making Lithuanian professional music famous in the world.

Also, as of September 2020, he is an associate professor at the composition department of Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy in Vilnius. At the same academy, he also leads the students’ string orchestra.

Three new recordings of Gediminas Gelgotas music from now on is available to listen on Spotify.
Famous cellist David Geringas, for whom such composers as Gubaidulina, Vasks and Tüür dedicated their concertos, recorded Gelgotas’ piece To the Skies. Another recording was made by probably the most famous classical doublebass performer of today, the recipient of Opus Classic Award in 2018 (best instrumentalist category) Roman Patkoló (piece called Transitory). And David Nebel, violinist who just released his first album with Sony label and who
commissioned Gelgotas to write a violin concerto few years ago, recorded the Cadenza from this Violin Concerto.

On August 17th, 2020, the concert of Gelgotas’ music, as a part of the prestigious Odessa Classics festival, took place at the Great Hall of Odessa Philharmonic. Compositions Sanctifaction, Never Ignore the Cosmic Ocean, To the Skies, Extracadenza, Sacred Unreligious Soul, Transitory, Cadenza from Violin Concerto No.1 and other works were performed by the composer himself and his ensemble NICO.

Please find an excerpt from one of the reviews below:

“Lithuanian composer, conductor, pianist Gediminas Gelgotas and his ensemble conquered the Odessa audience

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His ideas in music are a clear embodiment of our current reality, where boundaries between Classical and Popular music are blurred. In fact, this is one of the directions that Classical music is taking on in our time and this direction is what helps us to keep the interest of today’s audiences, creates progress and evolution in our field.”

(Olesya Baglyukova, mystetsvo.in.ua)

A music video of acclaimed cellist David Geringas performing Gediminas Gelgotas’ ‘To the Skies‘ for Cello & Piano is premiered on The Violin Channel’s ‘New Music Tuesday’, alongside with a short interview of the composer. Piece was recorded and filmed live on the 12th of December, 2019 – in Vilnius City Hall, Lithuania. This is already a second time Gelgotas’ music is presented in this worlds leading classical music news channel.

https://theviolinchannel.com/new-music-composer-gediminas-gelgotas-to-the-skies-for-cello-and-piano-david-garingas/

“Breadth of views, depth, freedom, mobility, courage and, most importantly, openness”

On March 16th, 2019, famous violin virtuoso Roman Kim will perform the Violin Concerto of Gelgotas in Vilnius, with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra. An exciting concert at the Compensa Concert Hall organised by the Lithuanian Philharmonic Society will showcase the Lithuanian premiere of the latest work by Gelgotas performed by Kim for the first time, as well as conducted by the composer himself. Recently Gelgotas more and more often appears in a new role – as a conductor with various symphony and chamber orchestras, letting audiences hear his works exactly as they were meant to sound, as well as giving a fresh perspective to everyone’s favourite classical masterpieces in concert halls around Europe.
Tickets and information: https://goo.gl/Cm2VdU

Photo: Ira Weinrauch

In March 2019, Kristjan Järvi, violinist David Nebel and the Baltic Sea Philharmonic are going on tour to concert halls of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Russia. The tour programme is going to highlight Gelgotas’ newly written Violin Concerto No. 1 with David Nebel as a soloist. For full concert schedule and ticket information use the following link: https://baltic-sea-philharmonic.eu/music/concerts-schedule/

Gelgotas’ pieces To the Skies and Sanctifaction will be performed by a famous trumpet virtuoso Sergey Nakariakov, cellists David Geringas abnd Vytautas Sondeckis and composer himself at the great concert hall of St Petersburg on 27th February, 2019. Tickets: https://www.philharmonia.spb.ru/afisha/275120/