Srautas by Julija Bagdonavičiūtė

Pianist Julija Bagdonavičiūtė (b. 1996) studied at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar, Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hanover, and the University of the Arts in Vienna (MDW). Since 2023, she has been a doctoral student at the LMTA. In 2020, she was awarded the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation's Live Music Now Hannover Scholarship, and in 2021 the Ernst von Siemens Scholarship for the promotion of contemporary music. She has given concerts to audiences in Lithuania, Italy, France, Germany, Hungary, Finland, Sweden, Portugal, Croatia, Austria and Estonia, and has been a prize-winner of international competitions in Lithuania, France, Italy, Sweden and Estonia. In addition to her concert activities, she is also the producer of the Klaipėda Piano Masters Festival, an international summer academy for pianists.

Julija Bagdonavičiūtė actively performs as a soloist and in chamber ensembles, pays much attention to the work of young Lithuanian composers, encourages them to create new works, explores new limits in the possibilities of the piano, and puts together a variety of conceptual and at the same time attractive programmes. Sometimes her ensemble programmes take on the form of an audiovisual installation – even circus performers have been invited on stage. The pianist is constantly searching for a new relationship between the art of the piano and the listener/viewer, while at the same time always paying attention to what concerns creators today – she chooses works that do not shy away from an experimental approach and full use of the piano's sonic and physical potential. But every time she ensures that the very different pieces fit seamlessly into a coherent, conceptual programme.

This programme opens up different plains of new Lithuanian piano music: some pieces are quiet, fragile, and atmospheric; others are full of contrasts or clashes, sometimes with an aggressive electronic part (and here a contrast between the two worlds is deliberately sought). Some of the pieces also "talk" to each other in terms of themes. A couple of these pieces were written for the International M. K. Čiurlionis Piano Competition in Vilnius.

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