Vykintas Baltakas: news

“Saxopho(e)nix” for saxophone trio (2014) at the SALT Festival

22 Aug. 2019, SALT Festival, Victoria (BC) Quasar quartet   Premiere recording: https://youtu.be/_AI2LTbu4oU

“Saxoph(o)enix” for a saxophone trio

Live recording: May 9, 2019 – Montréal, Espace Aline-Letendre du Gesù (CA) Quasar Saxophone Quartet youTube work-info

14 June, 2019, Kultūros naktis / night of culture Vilnius

Unvollendete (1994-97) for a wind trio

Mėta Pelegrimaitė, fl

Matas Samulionis, sax

Arminas Bižys, sax

Premiere: “Saxoph(o)enix” for a saxophone trio

May 9, 2019 – Montréal, Espace Aline-Letendre du Gesù (CA) Quasar Saxophone Quartet work info

Sandwriting II (premiere) for symphony orchestra   5 April, 21.03, SWR2 Abendkonzert: web player   Live recording at the ECLAT Festival Stuttgart, 2019 SWR Symphonieorchester Brad Lubman, cond.

Premiere: Sandwriting II for orchestra

SWR JetztMusik in ECLAT 10 Febr., 2019, 18:30 / Stuttgart / Theaterhaus (DE)   SWR Symphonieorchester Brad Lubman, cond.   Broadcasting: 5 April, 2019, SWR2 Abendkonzert, 20:03

Portrait – lectures at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre Vilnius

ERDVINIO GARSO FESTIVALIS / Festival “SFEROS | PREMJEROS” December 4, 18:00 Gintas K “ACOUSMA LIGHT” December 5, 19:00 Vykintas Baltakas “SANDWRITING” December 6, 18:00 Vykintas Baltakas “LIFT TO DUBAI” December 7, 18:00 Gintas K “BLIND MAN TALES”   Indrė Baikštytė ir Jonė Punytė, Keyboards

Portrait concert at the Villa Concordia Bamberg

26 Nov 2018, 19:00, Villa Concordia Bamberg   Musik of falling sounds (2015) for violin and electronics Pasaka (1995-97) for piano solo Recitativo (2014) for violin and piano Pasaka (1995-97) for piano and electronics Eine kleine Nachtmusik (2013) for violin solo

Hannah Weirich, vln. Benjamin Kobler, pno. Liudas Mockūnas, cl.

“Virtual orchestra” at the Gaida festival

A project by LENsemble Vilnius Curated by Thomas Hummel and Vykintas Baltakas   Nov. 8, 19:00 Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius   JULIA WOLFE – My Lips From Speaking for two pianos and audio playback (1993) EGIDIJA MEDEKŠAITĖ – BhUtadhAtrI for five amplified trumpets and electronics (2018) VYKINTAS BALTAKAS – Sandwriting (2018) dviem two keyboards and live electronics ROLANDS KRONLAKS – Up in the…

JULIA WOLFE: “My lips from speaking” for two pianos EGIDIJA MEDEKŠAITĖ: “BhUtadhAtrI” for 5 trumpets (Premiere) VYKINTAS BALTAKAS: “Sandwriting” for two keyboards and live electronics ROLANDS KRONLAKS: new work for two trumpets and piano (premiere) JULIA WOLFE: “East Broadway” for toy piano and audio playback THOMAS HUMMEL, Sadedz! for ensemble LENsemble Vilnius Vykintas Baltakas, cond.

Druskininkai Artists’ Residence: closing concert

30 Sept., 2018, Druskininkai (LT)   Edgars Rubenis: in 28’42’’ Johannes Bergmark: digestion (for cecil taylor) Thanos Chrysakis: moonstone plateau Burkhard Beins: adapt/oppose, version 18/1 for sextet, 16’   Performers: Kristupas Gikas (flute) Kazimieras Jušinskas (saxophone) Simonas Kaupinis (tuba) Monika Kiknadzė (viola) Domantas Razmus, Kristupas Kmitas (percussion)   Supervisor: Vykintas…

Presentation of “Sandwriting” for two keyboards and electronics at the festival-conference “Doctors in Performance”

Wednesday 5 September 2018, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Grand Hall Keynote address: Vykintas Baltakas “Modal Form and Challenges for Interpreters of New Music” Piano / Keyboard: Indrė Baikštytė Chair: Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli

Doctors in Performanceis a festival conference of music performance and artistic research, where music performers conducting artistic research at doctoral and…

Portrait concert at the Kintai Music Festival

5 August, 2018, 8 pm, Kintai   Music of falling sounds (2015) for violin and electronics Commentum (2011) for cello and piano Pasaka (1997-1998) for piano and electronics Eine kleine Nachtmusik (2013) for violin solo   Also works by Vidmantas Bartulis and Bronius Kutavičius.   Rusnė Mataitytė (vln), Edmundas Kulikauskas (vc), Albina Šikšniūtė & Marta Finkelstein (pno)

Three performances of Pasaka by emerging pianists in Belgium, Germany and Lithuania

26 June, 2018, School of Arts of University College, Ghent (BE) Pasaka for piano and electronics Maria Dominguez Perez, pno   11 July, 2018, Karlsruhe (DE), Schloss Gottesaue Pasaka for piano solo Ieva Dudaitė, pno   5 August, 2018, Kintai Music Festival (LT) Pasaka for piano and electronics Marta Finkelštein, pno

23 may 2018, Conservatory Maastricht

Composition Department

Prof. V.Baltakas

Performances of “Recitativo” by Aleksey Semenenko in Germany and UK

Recitativo (2014) for violin and piano   05.05.2018, Gasteig Munich, Germany   18.05.2018, Norwich, UK Norfolk & Norwich festival   20.05.2018, BBC NGA Recording, London, UK   Aleksey Semenenko, violin

Smokey Arnold (2015) for ensemble in Tallinn

15.05.2018, 7:00 PM 1st Studio of Estonian Radio, Kreutzwaldi 14, Tallinn, Estonia   Performer: ensemble U Broadcasting by Klassikaraadio work info & recording