Percussive Soundscapes

While wading through colourful soundscapes of percussion music, we will first visit the sphere of Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theoretician, architect and engineer Iannis Xenakis. He was one of the most prominent representatives of the musical avant-garde in the second half of the 20^th century, having pioneered the use of mathematical models in music, such as the applications of stochastic processes and game theory, and was also an important influence on the development of electronic and computer music. The world celebrates the centenary of his birth this year, so Pavel Giunter, Artistic Director of the Giunter Percussion Ensemble, decided to include three of Xenakis’ pieces for percussion instruments in this programme.

The second half of this concert will transport us to an altogether different oasis of sound inhabited with the music by Litvak composer Anatolijus Šenderovas and world-famous Chinese-American composer Tan Dun. The latter describes his blend of East and West as “swinging and swimming freely among different cultures.” Drawing inspiration from Chinese traditional theatre and rituals, as well as Western classical music tradition, he has dedicated much of his life and effort to develop his own unmistakable musical idiom. He has achieved global notoriety by composing music for Ang Lee’s film Croaching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), for which he was named the recipient of an Academy Award, Grammy and BAFTA.

Latvian percussionist Guntars Freibergs, who has previously appeared at the Klaipėda Concert Hall with the Perpetuum Ritmico Ensemble, will now appear solo and together with the Giunter Percussion Ensemble. Cellist Gleb Pyšniak, known to the audiences in Klaipėda as a former leader of the cello section in the Klaipėda Chamber Orchestra, will join them as a soloist.

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