2020-11-16
The Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and the Musicologists’ Section of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union are happy to invite to the international conference “Typologies of Music Signification: Retrospective and Perspective” that will take place at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius, on October 21–23, 2021.
2020-07-03
The 20th International Music Theory Conference Principles of Music Composing: Phenomenon of Teleology. November 18th – 20th, 2020. Vilnius, Lithuania. The deadline for proposal submissions is the 1st of September, 2020.
2020-05-13
Vox Juventutis, a fourteenth competition of choral music for young composers, has changed its format this year due to the quarantine in that the final concert, usually held in early June, has been postponed and the winners have been selected online rather than during a traditional live performance of the submitted pieces.
2020-04-21
April 20 was the deadline in the online vote to select the best pieces of music written in 2019 by Lithuanian composers. Shrî by Egidija Medekšaitė came out as the listeners’ choice with 10,813 votes. A total of 87 compositions written by Lithuanian composers and representing different genres, from miniatures to large-scale and interdisciplinary pieces, had been submitted for the competition.
2020-02-19
Lithuanian Composers' Union, and Vilnius Municipal Choir “Jauna muzika” invites students of any musical department to take part in the 14th Youngest Composers Competition "Vox juventutis".
2020-02-03
On 10–12 September 2020, the Department of Music History at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, the Lithuanian-Polish research project “Music of Change: Expression of Liberation in Polish and Lithuanian Music Before and After 1989” and the Musicological Section of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union organize the Baltic Musicological Conference 2020 “MUSIC AND CHANGE BEFORE AND AFTER 1990”.
2019-04-27
The Composers’ House in Vilnius hosted an annual award ceremony 27 April to honour the members of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union who wrote some of the best new music in 2018.
2019-03-12
Contemporary Music Festival IŠ ARTI launches ideas contest for new pieces of symphony orchestra and chamber ensemble. The aim of the contest is to expand the repertoire of symphony and chamber ensembles, to promote the evolution of professional music in different styles and ways. The best ideas will be selected within the competition, the works, created by the composers, will be performed during the International Contemporary Music Festival IŠ ARTI, on November 15-22, 2019 at Kaunas State Philharmonic (Lithuania).
2019-01-21
Lithuanian Composers' Union, and Vilnius Municipal Choir “Jauna muzika” invites students of any musical department to take part in the 13th Youngest Composers Competition "Vox juventutis'19".
2018-11-21
On 20 November, an annual award ceremony to announce the most noteworthy Lithuanian pieces of music from 2017 took place at the Composers’ House in Vilnius. A total of 64 opuses, all of which premiered in 2017, were submitted for the competition to represent different genres of music. The most remarkable works were selected by a jury which included musicologists Beata Baublinskienė, Linas Paulauskis and Rima Povilionienė; composers Teisutis Makačinas and Mārtiņš Viļums; music performers Robertas Beinaris, Rūta Rikterė, Ingrida Rupaitė and Karolis Variakojis; and a musicologist and conductor Donatas Katkus.