Three new recordings of Gediminas Gelgotas music from now on is available to listen on Spotify.
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Three new recordings of Gediminas Gelgotas music from now on is available to listen on Spotify.
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.
“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/
The World Premiere of Gelgotas’ first Violin Concerto took place on Saturday, July 7th at Kissinger Sommer festival (Max-Littmann Saal, Bad Kissingen). Solo part was performed by rising Swiss violin star David Nebel together with Maestro Kristjan Järvi and the Baltic Sea Philharmonic. The premiere has already been followed by great reviews and attention from the press (after as well as prior the premiere night).
The German newspaper Main Post wrote: “The Lithuanian Gelgotas unfolds wide spaces in the large orchestra, densely woven from tight intervals. Staggered slight changes in the often blocky, fine-rhythmic, even static events achieve delicate, sometimes even dramatic reverb effects. <…> Striking colour and idyll <…> as if the composer had overheard nature <…>.”
Meanwhile, please listen to the full video on Violin Channel Youtube channel here.
A live 1.5 hour show on Gediminas Gelgotas on BR Klassik programme Sweet Spot took place on 11 June in Munich, Germany. It featured discussions on music, as well as two live on-air performances with the double bass icon Roman Patkoló.
Please find more about the BR Klassik show on Gelgotas here.
You can listen to the whole show here.