{"id":231003,"date":"2026-04-29T22:37:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vilnius-events.lt\/?post_type=event&p=231003"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:37:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:37:05","slug":"vilniaus-festivalis-visi-keliai-veda-i-vilniu-francesco-tristano-gediminas-gelgotas-lnso-lko-niko-jauna-muzika","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.vilnius-events.lt\/en\/event\/vilnius-festival-all-roads-lead-to-vilnius-francesco-tristano-gediminas-gelgotas-lnso-lco-nico-jauna-muzika\/","title":{"rendered":"Vilnius Festival. All Roads Lead to Vilnius. Francesco Tristano, Gediminas Gelgotas, LNSO, LCO, NICO, \u201cJauna muzika\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Closing of the 30th Vilnius Festival<\/strong><\/p>\n

Performers:<\/strong>
\nLITHUANIAN NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
\n(artistic director and principal conductor Modestas Pitr\u0117nas)
\nLITHUANIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
\n(artistic director and conductor Sergej Krylov)
\nNICO Ensemble
\n(artistic director and conductor Gediminas Gelgotas)
\nVilnius City Municipality Choir JAUNA MUZIKA
\n(artistic director and conductor Vaclovas Augustinas)
\nSoloist FRANCESCO TRISTANO (piano, Luxembourg)
\nConductor GEDIMINAS GELGOTAS<\/p>\n

Programme:<\/strong>
\nGEDIMINAS GELGOTAS \u2013 Vertigo (Joseph\u2013Nicholas\u2013Pancrace Royer\u2019s pieces for harpsichord Le vertigo re-composition for violin and chamber orchestra
\nMICHAEL NYMAN \u2013 Trysting Fields from Peter Greenaway\u2019s film Drowning by Numbers, version for violin, viola and chamber orchestra
\nPETER GREGSON \u2013 Bach Recomposed: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prelude, VI. Gigue, for cello and chamber orchestra
\nJOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH \u2013 Concerto for harpsichord and orchestra No. 7, in G minor, BWV1058 (with Francesco Tristano cadenza)
\nFRANCESCO TRISTANO \u2013 Pastoral for piano and chamber orchestra; La franciscana for piano and chamber orchestra
\nGEDIMINAS GELGOTAS \u2013 Never Ignore the Cosmic Ocean for choir and symphony orchestra; Praisedance for choir and symphony orchestra; Vilniaus sarabanda (The Sarabande of Vilnius) for choir and symphony orchestra (text by Kristina Sabaliauskait\u0117)<\/p>\n

The Vilnius Festival will conclude with a powerful joint concert featuring the renowned Luxembourg pianist and composer Francesco Tristano, the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the NICO Ensemble, and the Vilnius City Municipality Choir Jauna muzika, conducted by the charismatic Gediminas Gelgotas, who will also be part of this concert as a composer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The main highlight of the Vilnius Festival closing concert will be guest artist Francesco Tristano from Luxembourg. He combines seemingly distant and unrelated contexts in his music in a highly conceptual and original way.<\/p>\n

The pianist\u2019s big break came in 2011 when he signed a contract with Deutsche Grammophon, which released three of his albums. In 2017, Tristano began collaborating with Sony Classical, focusing not only on his performing career but also on his work as a composer. In his music, different historical and cultural contexts, various musical experiences, and historical periods merge into coherent, conceptual musical canvases.<\/p>\n

Following performances of original works by Tristano, classics of contemporary music, and other compositions by G. Gelgotas, the closing concert of the Vilnius Festival will be symbolically crowned by The Sarabande of Vilnius, a piece dedicated to the 700th anniversary of Vilnius. \u201cIn this music, it was important to me not so much to create the sound of Vilnius as to convey it as I hear it when walking through my city, its Old Town, narrow streets, and squares,\u201d says the composer, Gediminas Gelgotas. The piece\u2019s co-author, writer Kristina Sabaliauskait\u0117, explained that she sought to choose Lithuanian words so that every European would have some understanding of what the piece is about: \u201cso that the Lithuanian words would sound like magical incantations that do not overwhelm the music.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":231004,"template":"","categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"ticket-vendor":[46],"class_list":["post-231003","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-festivaliai","category-koncertai","ticket-vendor-kakava-lt"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vilnius-events.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/231003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vilnius-events.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vilnius-events.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vilnius-events.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vilnius-events.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vilnius-events.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vilnius-events.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231003"},{"taxonomy":"ticket-vendor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vilnius-events.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ticket-vendor?post=231003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}