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New music week

Different locations

New Music Week - Works of students of the composition class of Vykintas Baltakas

Experience the conversations between the traditional and unconventional; the musical journey can be experienced at the  Willem Hijstek Hall, Theater aan het Vrijthof and in the Bonnefanten museum.
The composition class led by Vykintas Baltakas presents the bold.

- FREE ADMISSION - 

7 June - Theater aan het Vrijthof 

14:00 - 15:30, Burlesques
Works by:
Konstantinos Loumpas, 
Asja Kadić, 
Ethan Blackburn, 
Noel Aiyar,
Hon Ning Cheung, 
Ethan Mileski,
Nader Adabnejad

16:00 - 17:00, Finding Beauty Amidst the Struggle
Works of Mario Pallas

10 June - Willem Hijstek Hall

11:30 - 12:30, From Solo to Ensemble
Works of Nikolas Agrafiotis

13:30 - 14:30, Works of Álvaro Rosselló Piernas
Works of Álvaro Rosselló Piernas

8 June - Theater aan het Vrijthof 

12:30 - 13:30, Samen
Works of:
Ethan Blackburn, 
Leon Lončar, 
Noel Aiyar, 
Ethan Mileski, 
Nader Adabnejad

11 June - Bonnefanten museum

14:00 - 15:00, On Stillness
Works of Juliette Romboti

9 June - Theater aan het Vrijthof

14:30 15:30, The void in beings
Works of Jien Chir Yap

16:00 - 16:45, Works of Ido Ulmer
Works of Ido Ulmer

 

About Vykintas Baltakas

Baltakas studied composition with Vytautas Barkauskas and conducting with Lionginas Abarius at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre Vilnius. He went on to study composition at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Wolfgang Rihm and conducting with Andreas Weiss. From 1994 to 1996 he participated in the International Courses for New Music in Darmstadt where he was awarded the Stipendium prize for his Pasaka for solo piano in 1996. From 1994 to 1997 he pursued his studies under the tutorship of composer and conductor Peter Eötvös at the Music Academy in Karlsruhe and at the Hungarian composer’s International Institute and, from 1997, under composer Emmanuel Nunes at the Paris Conservatory. From 1999–2000 he took a one year course at IRCAM in Paris.
Between 2003-2006 Baltakas studied philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (BE).

Vykintas Baltakas’s works have been regularly performed at major international festivals with commissioned works, including WDR Cologne, Munich Biennale, Wiener Festwochen, Maerzmusik Berlin, Salzburger Festspiele, Venice Biennale, Eclat Festival, Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition of Belgium and Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik. New works were written for Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, WDR Symphony Orchestra, SWR SO, Bavarian Radio SO, Lithuanian National SO, David Geringas, Piano Duo GrauSchumacher.

Vykintas Baltakas’ works have been awarded with prizes such as the International Claudio Abbado Composition Prize in 2003 and the Siemens Advancement Award in 2007. CD recordings of his compositions and performances have been made by the Ensemble musikFabrik Cologne, the Ensemble Modern, produced by WERGO, NEOS,  FUGA LIBERA and others. In 2016 the KAIROS label released Baltakas’ portrait album b(ell tree). 

Vykintas Baltakas has conducted orchestras such as the RSO and DSO Berlin, the Bavarian Radio SO and the WDR SO as well as ensembles including Ensemble Resonanz, the Ensemble Modern and Scharoun Ensemble. As a performer he has collaborated with influential composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Peter Eötvös, Georg Friedrich Haas and Dieter Schnebel. 

In 2009 he founded the LENsemble Vilnius (Lithuanian Ensemble Network). From September 2015 Vykintas Baltakas was a guest Professor at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and in the same year started his composition class at the conservatory in Maastricht. He currently holds a professorship at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre where he theaches performance of contemporary music, a program which he created together with Liudas Mockūnas in 2016.

In 2020 Vykintas Baltakas started curating the series of contemporary music at the No Business Records label.

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