LITHUANIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
(artistic director and conductor Sergej Krylov)
Soloists: RŪTA LIPINAITYTĖ (violin), MORTA GRIGALIŪNAITĖ (piano)
Conductor PIETRO BORGONOVO (Italy)
JONAS TAMULIONIS – Mėnesienos šviesoje žiūriu į raibuliuojantį ežero vandenį (In the Moonlight, I Look at the Shimmering Water of the Lake) for violin and orchestra (2023, premiere)
JOSEPH HAYDN – Concerto for violin, keyboard and strings No. 6 in F major, Hob. XVIII:6; Symphony No. 42 in D major, Hob. I:42
Born in Milan, Pietro Borgonovo is a renowned conductor of symphonic music and opera. He is regularly invited to festivals and theatres such as Arena di Verona, La Fenice theatre in Venice, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Musikverein in Vienna, as well as Salzburg and Ravenna festivals. He has conducted in La Scala in Milan, Carnegie Hall in New York, and in the most important concert venues in Paris, Madrid, Lisbon, Berlin, London, Buenos Aires, Prague, Luxembourg. Borgonovo is the artistic director of the Genoese Youth Orchestra and of one of the oldest competitions, the International G. B. Viotti Music Competition, in Vercelli. Tonight, the maestro conducts the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra and two soloists.
Violinist Rūta Lipinaitytė is a laureate of many international competitions, Doctor of Arts, professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Her repertoire is wide and diverse, she often plays the music of Lithuanian composers. It is not for nothing that musicologist Laimutė Ligeikaitė has dubbed her the godmother of Lithuanian music: Lipinaitytė is the first performer of many works by Lithuanian composers, a dedicatee of works by A. Martinaitis, J. Tamulionis, J. Juozapaitis, M. Salynas. Tonight, she will premiere Mėnesienos šviesoje žiūriu į raibuliuojantį ežero vandenį (In the Moonlight, I Look at the Shimmering Water of the Lake) for violin and orchestra, the opus that composer Jonas Tamulionis dedicated to her.
The concert programme also includes Symphony No. 42 in D major (1771) and Concerto for violin, keyboard and strings No. 6 in F major by the Viennese classic Joseph Haydn. The latter’s soloists will be Lipinaitytė and pianist Morta Grigaliūnaitė, who rarely performs in her hometown, but is well known to music lovers. Grigaliūnaitė appears in the most famous European concert halls, including the Berlin Philharmonic and London’s Wigmore Hall. The pianist’s broadcasts to millions of Mezzo TV viewers helped her gain international recognition and establish herself as a striking and arresting musician. M. Rostopovich and M. Rubackytė are among the well-known musicians who have supported the artist since childhood.
