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“When reviving Bajoras’ music in memory, it is not the individual work that comes to mind, but the way of communicating itself – straightforward, unadulterated, often painfully frank, felt, suffered, but not constructed”, says the musicologist Rūta Gaidamavičiūtė about the composer Feliksas Bajoras, who is turning 90.

Unpredictability and a straightforward relationship with music is a unique and distinctive feature of Bajoras. Even at a ripe age, the composer surprises with his original twists on traditional genres and forms, his distinctive combinations of ethnic and contemporary music, and his unique musical dramaturgy.

The chamber concert dedicated to the anniversary of Bajoras will feature dialogues between violin and piano, alternating with monologues from both instruments. The programme will feature a number of new as well as previously performed chamber music opuses by Bajoras.

The Sonata for violin and piano Prabėgę metai (Years Gone By, 1979) will embody the composer’s solid anniversary. Hailed as one of Bajoras’ most characteristic works, the composition reveals many of the qualities that characterise his music. The wide range of psychological expression, the changing moods of the “inner monologue”, the purposeful and meaningful changeability – all this was perceived and appreciated by the musicologist Vytautas Landsbergis in Bajoras’ Sonata Prabėgę metai (Years Gone By).