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World premiere of the composition for the Chapel-columbarium of the Tuskulėnai Memorial
Guided tour around the site included
JUNE 3
13:00 | 15:00
Memorial Complex of Tuskulėnai Peace Park
Žirmūnų str. 1F
22 EUR
Discounted
tickets available
World premiere of the composition for the Chapel-columbarium of the Tuskulėnai Memorial
Guided tour around the site included
JUNE 4
11:00 | 13:00 | 15:00
Memorial Complex of Tuskulėnai Peace Park
Žirmūnų str. 1F
22 EUR
Discounted
tickets available
The Memorial Complex of Tuskulėnai Peace Park is a special place in Vilnius where various aspects of the city’s history converge, both bright and poignant. German-based Ukrainian composer Anna Korsun will let her music resonate in Vilnius through the impressive architecture, unique acoustics, and mysterious atmosphere of the memorial complex’s chapel-columbarium. The composer has created a piece titled “Spettri” for five cellos and for voices of the performers. The title in Italian means “spirits” and it accurately reflects the purpose of the space: it combines both memorial and practical functions, including the storage of some remains found here.
The event consists of a guided tour around the Memorial Complex of Tuskulėnai Peace Park and the world premiere of the new composition by Anna Korsun in the chapel-columbarium.
Meeting Point: The Memorial Complex Of Tuskulėnai Peace Park (Žirmūnų str. 1F, Vilnius) > find on map (the tour begins / meeting point – nearby Tuskulėnai manor, next to the only fir tree in the park)
Event Duration (with the tour): ± 1,5 h.
Performers:
„Cello Club“: Arnas Kmieliauskas, Povilas Jacunskas, Rokas Vaitkevičius, Domas Jakštas, Evaldas Petkus
- PASAULINĖ PREMJERA
- PORTRETINIS KONCERTAS
SPECIALIA KAINA
Anna Korsun. „In the Cage“
Vilnius Town Hall
Didžioji str. 31
18 EUR | Discounted tickets available
Anna Korsun. „In the Cage“
JUNE 4 | 18:00 PM
Vilnius Town Hall
Didžioji str. 31
18 EUR
Discounted
tickets available
The concert will feature a performative composition titled “In the Cage,” created by Anna Korsun in 2022 for string quartet and metal construction. This nearly hour-long composition brilliantly showcases the full range of Anna Korsun’s creative tools, her distinctive style, and provides an excellent opportunity to become acquainted with this composer.
Performers:
„LENsemble Vilnius“ (artistic director – Vykintas Baltakas)
Lora Kmieliauskaitė (violin), Ingrida Rupaitė (violin), Monika Kiknadzė (viola), Arnas Kmieliauskas (violoncello)
Event Duration: ± 1 h
SUSITIKIMAS SU KOMPOZITORIUMI
IVAN FEDELE
Kazio Varnelio
namai-muziejus
(Didžioji g. 26)
NEMOKAMAI. BŪTINA REGISTRACIJA
Netrukus,
sekite naujienas!
Composer Talk with
Anna Korsun
JUNE 3 | 17:00 PM
Memorial Complex of Tuskulėnai Peace Park
Conference Hall | Žirmūnų str. 1F
FREE ENTRANCE
Composer Talk with Anna Korsun
Memorial Complex of
Tuskulėnai Peace Park
Conference Hall | Žirmūnų str. 1F
FREE ENTRANCE
AnNA KORSuN
When I received the offer to participate in the ‘Music for Vilnius’ project, I was delighted and surprised – I have never created anything like this before, and a city that is preparing to celebrate its anniversary on such a scale is truly special!
Anna Korsun was born in Donetsk, Ukraine in 1986. She studied composition in Kiev and Munich with Moritz Eggert. Now Anna lives in Germany.
Anna combines in her creativity musical composition, installation, performance and sound art. She works for different formations from solo to orchestra, including acoustic instruments, voice, electronics and sounding objects. Besides an activity as an artist Anna performs contemporary music as vocalist/keyboard instruments, directs musical projects and teaches composition at Amsterdam conservatory, as well as at international courses.
She participated at international festivals such as eclat, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, ISCM, Warsaw Autumn, Festival Musica Strasbourg, worked with Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, SWR Vokalensemble, ensemble mosaik, ascolta, ensemble modern, AskoSchoenberg, Camerata Silesia, Silbersee, Bavarian Academy of Theater August Everding, Ludwik-Solski-Academy for performing arts in Krakow, LOH-Orchester, Thüringer Symphoniker. She was artist-in-residence at Villa Massimo in Rome, Residency for New Music Goethe Institute Canada, Academy Schloss Solitude, Cité internationale des arts in Paris and others. Anna was awarded Prize of Christoph-and-Stephan-Kaske-Foundation, Gaudeamus Award, Kunstpreis Berlin and Open Ear of Trillende Lucht Foundation.
The composer chose the Tuskulėnai Chapel-Columbarium for its exceptional acoustics, revealing the profound history and sacred atmosphere of the site. This selection seamlessly links the present world with the realm of the departed, forging a harmonious bridge between the two.
I do not usually write texts about my works, because for me it is difficult to transfer musical ideas into verbal means. When I compose a work, I think in terms of sounds, their relationships, connections, mixtures and musical time and not in terms of story telling. For me, music creates its own world, which does not necessary has to be applied to literature or image. This piece is another sound being, which the listeners and musicians are invited to experience together with me in each their personal way.
Anna Korsun
the Chapel-columbarium
of theMemorial Complex of
Tuskulėnai Peace Park
The chapel-columbarium symbolizes the commemoration and tribute to the victims. It is a space of solemnity and contemplation.
The Memorial Complex of Tuskulėnai Peace Park is a unique place that brings together two quite different epochs – the glorious past and the traces of the crimes committed there.
Tuskulėnai Manor, established there in the 16th century, had a royal status. Until the mid-19th century the magnificent Classicism-style manor house was one of the popular cultural sites in Vilnius.
However, in the 20th century the pages of the history changed. The persons, sentenced to death by the USSR tribunal, who had been tortured and murdered in the NKGB (MGB) inner prison in Vilnius, were secretly put to the mass graves there between 1944 and 1947. The occupying Soviet authorities charged the majority of them with the treason against homeland and imposed a death sentence under Article 58 of the Penal Code of the RSFSR. Over the period, mentioned above, 767 persons were executed.
The Tuskulėnai mass graves contain the remains of armed and unarmed anti-Soviet resistance fighters, participants of the June Uprising of 1941, and soldiers of the Polish underground Army of Krajowa. Some of the victims were accused of collaboration with the Nazis, participation in the Holocaust, or crimes against civilians. Among the victims were people of various nationalities: Lithuanians, Russians, Poles, Germans, Belarusians, Latvians, Ukrainians, Jews, and others.
Archaeological excavations and anthropological studies of the burial sites were carried out on the territory of Tuskulėnai Manor, leading to the project of a chapel-columbarium as their final resting place. The project was prepared by architects Vytautas Edmundas Čekanauskas and Algirdas Umbrasas, architect-restorer Lina Masliukienė, sculptor Gediminas Karalius, and painter Gitenis Umbrasas. The technical project was prepared and supervised by architects Marius Šaliamoras and Jūras Balkevičius.
The authors chose a tomb-shaped structure in which the remains of the people unearthed in Tuskulėnai in 2004 were reinterred. In uniform crypts, placed in niches, the remains of 717 individuals are buried, while the remains of seven others were returned to their relatives and the Telšiai Diocese.
The chapel-columbarium symbolizes the commemoration and tribute to the victims. It is a space of solemnity and contemplation. In 2009, it was adorned with an artwork called “Trinity”, a vaulted mosaic symbolizing Fate, Happiness, and Freedom. The author of this artwork is Gitenis Umbrasas. Created from pieces of white and yellow gold and colored glass, the artwork depicts the intersection of three birds – a hawk, an owl, and a swan. The top of the tomb is crowned by a crown created by G. Karalius.
CELLO CLUB
Ieškau naujos japonų dvasinės kultūros ir muzikos išraiškos. Tokios, kuri leistų būti atviram man pačiam ir mano šaknims. Kaip tauta, turime atidžiau persvarstyti Vakarų pasaulį, kad patys save galėtume vertinti objektyviau, kad iš tiesų save pažintume.
Užrašas ant Vilniaus universiteto observatorijos sienos
In 2020, the Lithuanian music scene was joined by a new ensemble—the Cello Club Quintet. It is a collective of five cellists who open up a broad perspective of the instrument—Povilas Jacunskas, Domas Jakštas, Arnas Kmieliauskas, Evaldas Petkus, and Rokas Vaitkevičiusis. The quintet is inspired by the homogeneous ensembles that have already become popular in Western Europe, becoming ambassadors of both their instrument and their country.
All five Cello Club cellists are musicians active on the Lithuanian scene today. The first three members are all concertmasters of the cellos groups of renown orchestras: Jakštas of the St. Christopher’s Chamber Orchestra, Vaitkevičius of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre Orchestra, and Jacunskas of the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra. In turn, Kmieliauskas is a member of the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, and Evaldas Petkus plays at the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra. The cellists also play in chamber ensembles such as the string quartets Mettis and Chordos, the piano trio FortVio, and the contemporary music ensembles Synaesthesis and Twenty Fingers Duo.
Cello Club is unique for its democratic principle of functioning, where each of the five members can become a leader and soloist. The ensemble’s name encodes a message of openness, with no commitment to one particular line-up, and leaving room for diverse programmatic and compositional choices. Audiences should not be surprised to hear Cello Club perform a whole array of genres, from serious academic music to popular classics and compositions of lighter styles, not avoiding humour and reconsidering the boundaries between serious art and entertainment. Moreover, Cello Club is happy to invite other colleagues to join its “club”: three musicians joined them to play the first ever performance of Michael Gordon’s 8 in Lithuania, and there are many more works in the ensemble’s repertoire intended for such an extended composition of the ensemble.
The quintet is constantly expanding its repertoire and creating arrangements of new works. Cello Club’s repertoire ranges from romantic composers such as Edvard Grieg to the most prominent 20th-century composers such as Samuel Barber and Bela Bartok, contemporary composers such as Arvo Part, Philip Glass or Max Richter, and Lithuanian composers of different generations, such as Anatolijus Šenderovas and Dominykas Digimas.
Over these few years, Cello Club has already participated in many of the biggest Lithuanian festivals and visited various concert halls. The latest result of the ensemble’s collaborations is the album Monochrome, prepared together with the new vocal music ensemble Melos, which features works by Lithuanian composers Žibuoklė Martinaitytė, Egidija Medekšaitė, Mykolas Natalevičius and Albertas Navickas.
LENsemble VILNIUS
Ieškau naujos japonų dvasinės kultūros ir muzikos išraiškos. Tokios, kuri leistų būti atviram man pačiam ir mano šaknims. Kaip tauta, turime atidžiau persvarstyti Vakarų pasaulį, kad patys save galėtume vertinti objektyviau, kad iš tiesų save pažintume.
Užrašas ant Vilniaus universiteto observatorijos sienos
Artistic director and conductor – Vykintas Baltakas
Initiated by Vykintas Baltakas, LENsemble Vilnius (Lithuanian Ensemble Network) connects professional ensembles, soloists and conductors.
LENsemble consists of: the Chordos String Quartet, Kristupas Wind Quintet, Kaskados Piano Trio, Vilnius Brass Quintet, accordionist Raimondas Sviackevičius and others. LENsemble is working with established institutions of contemporary music in Lithuania and abroad, such as the Lithuanian Composers’ Union, Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre, Lithuanian Academy of Music and theatre, Goethe-Institut Vilnius and Karsten Witt Musikmanagement Berlin.
LEN is proud about its performances at the WDR (2009), at the Ruhr European Capital of Culture (2010), Ultraschall Festival Berlin (2013), Gaida Festival, Flagey Brussels, Concertgebouw Brugge, tours in Serbia, Egypt, Poland, Latvia and its recordings for Kairos, Megadisc Classics, WDR, Deutschland Radio Kultur, WDR, etc. In 2011 LENsemble started the concert series Composers of our time, featuring the influential international and lithuanian composers.
Performers: Lora Kmieliauskaitė (violin), Ingrida Rupaitė (violin), Monika Kiknadzė (viola), Arnas Kmieliauskas (violoncello)