Chamber series - Contemporary Music

May 20

Church of SS Simon and Jude

8.00 pm

New Vilnius Ensemble

music director: Sarunas Nakas

program:

Contemporary Lithuanian Music

Sarunas Nakas - Cenotaph

Rytis Mazulis - Dragma

Algirdas Martinaitas - Legend of the Dung Beetle

Osvaldas Balakauskas - Ornaments

Bronius Kutavicius - From the Jatvingian stone

May 21

Church od SS Simon and Jude

8.00 pm

In association with The British Council

Arditti String Quartet

program:

Gyorgy Kurtag - Officium breve, op.28

Brian Ferneyhough - String Quartet No.3

Gyorgy Ligeti - String Quartet No.2

Iannis Xenakis - "Tetras"

May 22

Church of SS Simon and Jude

8.00 pm

David Hykes and Harmonic Choir

program:

David Hykes - Prague Kyrie, Deserted Temple, Hearing solar Winds, Halleluia, Harmonic Psalms

May 23

Church of SS Simon and Jude

8.00 pm

Percussion ensemble Dama-Dama

program:

Steve Reich - Phase Patterns

Dan Dlouhy - Uncertainities

Ivo Medek - Temporis Motio

Ctibor Bartek - 365

Ino Medek - Fests

Minoru Miki - Marimba Spiritual

May 30

Chruch of SS Simon and Jude

8.00 pm

S.E.M. Enslemble. "The New Sound from New York"

music director: Petr Kotik

program:

Ben Neill - No More People II. - Eropean premiere

Petr Kotik - Quiescent Form - European premiere

Earle Brown - Centering

Christian Wolff - Spring - world premiere

Jon Gibson - Waltz - European premiere

May 31

Church of SS Simon and Jude

8.00 pm

In association with the U.S. Embassy

David Tudor

Live electronics

program:

David Tudor - world premiere of the new piece