Festival “The Land of Disobedient” comes to Nida for the 15th time. This year festival will be presenting concert programs, holding creative ecological sessions and other events between July 6th and July 12th. As every summer, Disobedient team knits together intriguing musical narratives with cultural insights and ecological subtext, promoting ideas of harmonious coexistence in various contexts and different spiritual levels.

Musical landscape of the Festival this year historically spans over four hundred years of music history, blending quite different stylistic worlds such as folk song and techno music, baroque and jazz. Seven very different musical stories will be related. Each of them ponders on modern identity, as if rising the existential question “who am I?” and looking at it from various aspects, thus challenging the listener to reflect on his or her personal level and place in a contemporary fleeting world, full of uncertainties, fizzy responsibilities and constantly changing values.

July 6, 18.30
The first program is dedicated to Lithuania’s Statehood Day, July 6th, the day of crowning of the only Lithuanian King Mindaugas. The programme ,,Užtrauksim naują giesmę?” (“Will We Sing a New Song?”) invites to stop for a second and ponder on what is our relationship with our own state today, what could be “the new song” of today, what would the future call be that would encourage everyone of us to get involved into the building of the future Lithuania.

Where: Amphitheatre of Nida Blessed Virgin Mary’s Christian Help Church, after church service
(Taikos st. 17, Nida)
Programme:
Juozas Naujalis, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Anatolijus Šenderovas, musical scene from a tavern somewhere in Lithuania, Juozas Gruodis, Juozas Naujalis
Performers:
Stein, Vytautas S., Žilvinas, Rasa, Vytautas M., Monika, Mindaugas, Sonata, Rokas
Free admission

July 7, 20.00
The second programme celebrates the musical world of Charlie Chaplin. It is not widely known, that the great film genius also composed music for his films. Songs written for his silent films and music for the film “Circus”, performed together with the film, will lead the listeners into the magical world of early silent film, again reminding how Chaplin commented his own comedies: “A picture with a smile – and perhaps, a tear.”

Where: Nida Community House (Taikos st. 17, Nida)
Performers:
Stein, Vytautas S., Žilvinas, Rasa, Monika, Mindaugas, Sonata, Rokas

July 8, 20.00
The third programme “The Whispering of the Spheres” is devoted to the music of the night. What is awaiting us in the bosom of the night? Dancing Shadows? Midnight prayers? Loneliness? Love? The world of the nocturnal sky, as the great philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras suggested in a theory, known as the Harmony of the Spheres, that the Sun, Moon and planets all emit their own unique hum based on their orbital revolution, and that the quality of life on Earth reflects the tenor of celestial sounds which are physically imperceptible to the human ear.

Where: Nida Evangelical Lutheran Church (Pamario st. 37, Nida)
Programme:
Ernest Bloch, Olivier Messiaen, Pēteris Plakidis, Max Bruch, Modest Mussorgsky, Luigi Boccherini, Igor Stravinsky, Guillaume Connesson, Samuel Barber, Jeff Manookian
Performers:
Stein, Vytautas S., Žilvinas, Rasa, Vytautas M., Monika, Mindaugas, Thomas, Sonata, Rokas

July 9, 20.00
The fourth programme marks the mid point of the festival. It is a musical frolic, performed by three exceptional musicians. Taking inspiration for their improvisations from various cultural backgrounds, they will lead the audience on the unforgettable journey into unpredictable and joyous world of invention.

Where: Amphitheatre of Nida Blessed Virgin Mary’s Christian Help Church (Taikos st. 17, Nida)
Performers:
BSM trio
Mindaugas Bačkus, cello
Raimondas Sviackevičius, accordion
Vytautas Mikeliūnas, violin

July 10, 20.00
The fifth programme “The Machine Stops” was built by Thomas Collingwood, a British cellist at this year’s festival. The programme combines very different stylistic works by composers from various national schools, with one unifying element: the music that in our very tumultuous world is in search of peace and silence.

Where: Nida Evangelical Lutheran Church (Pamario st. 37, Nida)
Programme:
Brian Wilshere, Zita Bružaitė, Vidmantas Bartulis, Gabriel Faure, Jurgita Mieželytė, Osvaldas Balakauskas, John Cage
Performers:
Stein, Vytautas S., Žilvinas, Rasa, Vytautas M., Monika, Thomas, Sonata, Rokas

July 11, 20.00
“Für Clara, meine Liebe, Robert” celebrates the 200th anniversary of pianist and composer Clara Schumann. Made up from works of Robert and Clara Schumann and their dear friend Felix Mendelssohn, the programme brings out one of the most passionate love stories of the history of classical music.

Where: Nida Evangelical Lutheran Church (Pamario st. 37, Nida)
Programme:
Robert Schumann, Felix Mendessohn, Clara Schumann
Performers:
Stein, Vytautas S., Žilvinas, Rasa, Vytautas M., Monika, Thomas, Sonata, Rokas

July 12, 20.00
The festival’s closing programme brings together the work of the participants of the ecological creative workshop and concert program “The Story of Forest”. Romantic programme not only celebrates the magical powers of forest, but also puts forward questions what is our position in today’s ecological situation…

Where: Nida Community House (Taikos st. 17, Nida)
Programme:
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Felix Mendessohn, Jurgita Mieželytė, Piotr Tchaikovsky, Antonin Dvořák, Heitor Villa-Lobos
Performers:
Stein, Vytautas S., Žilvinas, Rasa, Vytautas M., Monika, Thomas, Sonata, Rokas

Tickets 8 € at the concert venue. Except July 6th concert – Free admission

Ecological creative workshop

Ecological creative workshop “Stories of the Forest” will be held at the Amphitheatre of Blessed Virgin Mary’s Christian Help Church (Taikos st. 17, Nida) on July 6–11.

For a week the participants will be guided by three captivating forest stories exploring three levels of the natural realm. We will talk about the birds nesting in treetops and will practice how to wattle and sheaf straw and grass to build nest. Moreover, threading ant-paths we will discover tree barks, leafs, blossoms and even tree needles, everything that the forest residents – trees – offer. And in order to obtain longer lasting impression of our journey we will create collages. During the third stage of the workshop we will discover colours of the forest and relate our own forest stories in watercolour, pastel and coal.

July 6–7
“Birds and Nests”
Wattling and sheafing of straw, grass, etc.

July 8–9
Collages “On Ant-Path”
Artworks from tree needles, bark, straw…

July 10–11
“Colours of the Forest”
Discovering watercolour, pastel and coal.

Guides:
Vaida Kunigėlytė, artist
Jolita Sabaliauskaitė, artist
Silvija Kurienė, artist
Emilija Sidaravičiūtė, artist

Participation is free of charge.

Participants of the Festival

Stein Skjervold, baritone (Norway/Lithuania)
Vytautas Sriubikis, flute
Žilvinas Brazauskas, clarinet
Rasa Vosyliūtė, violin
Vytautas Mikeliūnas, violin
Monika Kiknadze, viola
Mindaugas Bačkus, cello
Thomas Collingwood, cello (UK)
Sonata Zubovienė, piano
Rokas Zubovas, piano

Vaida Kunigėlytė, artist
Jolita Sabaliauskaitė, artist
Silvija Kurienė, artist
Emilė Sidaravičiūtė, artist

Jūratė Vansk, stage director
Giedrius Kriūnas, sound/lighting design
Laura Mažuknaitė, public relations

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07.06. 18:00 NIDA. Blessed Virgin Mary Church

Opening of the festival. Concert dedicated to the Lithuanian Statehood Day

“We are not weak. The spirit of Creation is with us. Only those who ponder creative tasks survive in the world.” (Vydūnas)

Participants: Indrė, Jean-Christophe, Bert, Vytautas, Žilvinas, Rasa, Mihkel, Sonata, Rokas, Ridas

07.07. 20:00 JUODKRANTĖ. Evangelical Lutheran Church

07.08. 20:00 NIDA. Evangelical Lutheran Church

Land of the Disobedient  presents Merope, the guest of the festival, in a concert Naktės. An alternative folklore group creates unique alchemy of sound. Its minimalist compositions, inspired by ancient Lithuanian folksongs, embrace jazz and improvised music melted with electronic soundscapes. Via enchanting melodies, textures of sound, subtle harmonies and polyrhythm Merope gives life to a new ritual music of our modern time.

Meropewill introduce its new album Naktės (LP & CD).

Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė – voice, kanklės
Jean-Christophe Bonnafous –  bansuri
Bert Cools – guitar, electronics

07.07. 20:00 NIDA. Evangelical Lutheran Church

07.08. 20:00 JUODKRANTĖ. Evangelical Lutheran Church

Soldier’s Tales. 1918. Europe. The war is over. The great empires are ruined. The old powers do not impose their will anymore. Exhausted soldiers leave trenches and return to their villages and towns. A new world is about to be brought into being; big and small nations begin to realise their cultural ambitions and self-government. Europe is turning into a choir of many new voices. New states are emerging. From Balkan to Carpathian Mountains, from Mediterranean to Baltic Sea new Europe is forming.

On a very twisty way                                                                                                                A valiant soldier is plodding homewards…

Participants: Vytautas, Žilvinas, Rasa, Mihkel, Sonata, Rokas, Ridas

PROGRAMME:

Igor Stravinsky. Soldier’s Tale

Bela Bartok. Romanian Dances

Bela Bartok. Hungarian Folksongs

Bohuslav Martinu. Promenades

Ludomir Rožicki. Rhapsody

Josep Slavenski. From Balkans

07.09. 20:00 JUODKRANTĖ. Evangelical Lutheran Church

07.10. 20:00 NIDA. Evangelical Lutheran Church

Program dedicated to the centenary of Latvian State. VIE-RIX

PROGRAMME-DIALOGUE. Two countries, two epochs, two composers-geniuses:

W. A. Mozart and P. Plakidis. The foremost Austrian genius of all times Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) and one of the most celebrated Latvian composers of past decades – late Pēteris Plakidis (1947-2017). The programme is designed as a creative dialogue between the two giants. In his music, Plakidis constantly revisits other composers, styles and epochs, while an incessant player with human emotions Mozart always finds unorthodox twist.

Participants: Vytautas, Žilvinas, Rasa, Santa, Mindaugas, Sonata

PROGRAMME:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Quartet K.285

Pēteris Plakidis. Dedication to Haydn

Pēteris Plakidis. Improvisation and Burlesque

Pēteris Plakidis. Dedication to Brahms

Pēteris Plakidis. Dances of the Shadows

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Kegelstatt Trio K. 498

07.09. 20:00 NIDA. Evangelical Lutheran Church

07.10. 20:00 JUODKRANTĖ. Evangelical Lutheran Church

Estonian Landscapes. Program dedicated to the centenary of Estonian State. Composer and violinist Mihkel Kerem presents a program refuting the stereotypes of Estonian character, revealing an idiosyncratic Estonian spiritual landscape. It is a spectacular journey through Estonian composers’ spiritual landscapes revealing soundscapes of northern visions and dances based on picturesque Mesopotamian modes.

Participants: Mihkel, Rokas

PROGRAMME:

Artur Lemba. Armastuse poeem (Poéme d’amour)

Heino Eller. Muusikaline hetk (Musical moment), Männid (The Pines), Kellad (The Bells), Kuuvalgel (In the Moonlight)

Mati Kuulberg. Sonata for solo violin No 4

Mihkel Kerem. Mesopotamian Suite (based on Kurdish folksongs),  Asleep

07.11 NIDA. AGILA. 

Charlie Chaplin Circus

18:00 for all audience

21:00 for adults

Charlie Chaplin is the only figure in the history of cinematography who was the author of scenario, the director, the composer and the lead actor in his films. He was rated the greatest genius of film of the 20th century. His interwar films tell stories in which the veil of humour conceals subtle human emotions and existential truth. The festival presents Chaplin’s most comical film with live musical accompaniment. The film contemplates delicate human sentiments and the essence of life in the background of kaleidoscopic circus life.

Scenario – Charlie Chaplin; Director – Charlie Chaplin; Composer – Charlie Chaplin

Participants: Vytautas, Žilvinas, Rasa, Mihkel, Santa, Mindaugas, Sonata, Rokas

07.12 19:00 NIDA. AGILA

Eiti ramybėn

Opening of the ecological art workshop exhibition and premiere of festival’s production Eiti ramybėn. A symbolic path from the dictate of urban noise and ticking of the clock toward coalescence into nature of Čiurlionian landscape unites Japanese butoh dance, live electronics and M.K. Čiurlionis’ music.

Participants: Vaida, Jolita, Vilma and participants of the ecological art workshop;  live piano – Rokas, live electronic music – Phil, choreography – Sakurako (butoh) & Phil (electro flamenco),  butoh dance theatre Okarukas, costume design – Boram Gabrielė, video (stills) – Vytautas Katkus

07.13 20:00 NIDA. Evangelical Lutheran Church

The festival’s closing concert Lithuania at the Threshold of the Centenary. Then and NowIt is a symbolic musical journey through the 20th-century Lithuania. From M. K. Čiurlionis to today’s voices.

PROGRAMME:

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. String quartet in C minor

Garland of miniatures:

Juozas Pakalnis, Julius Gaidelis, Juozas Gruodis, Aleksandras Kačanauskas

Loreta Narvilaitė. Morning Dew Was Falling 

Anatolijus Šenderovas. Songs of Shulamith

Zita Bružaitė. Dance in Re(d)

Arvydas Malcys. Land of the Disobedient

Participants: Vytautas, Žilvinas, Rasa, Mihkel, Santa, Mindaugas, Sonata, Rokas

RESIDENTS AND GUESTS OF LAND OF THE DISOBEDIENT:

Guests:

Merope:

Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė, voice, kanklės
Jean-Christophe Bonnafous, bansuri
Bert Cools, guitar, electronics

Residents:

Vytautas Sriubikis, flute

Žilvinas Brazauskas, clarinet

Mihkel Kerem, violin

Rasa Vosyliūtė, violin

Santa Vižine, viola

Mindaugas Bačkus, cello

Sonata Zubovienė, piano

Rokas Zubovas, piano

Phil Vos, electronics

Sakurako, dance, choreography

Ridas Jasiulionis, actor, narrator

Vaida Kunigėlytė, artist

Jolita Sabaliauskaitė, artist

Vilma Dmitrijevienė, artist

Giedrius Kriūnas, light, sound, image

Jūratė Vansk, consultations, stage direction

Eglė Gabrytė, public relations

Administrators and dancers whose names tba

07.02

20:00 Nida, Amphitheatre of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church DEDICATION to MKČ. To mark the 140th anniversary of M.K. Čiurlionis. Music of paintings

Vytautas S., Rimvydas, Rasa, Vytautas M., Ugnė, Mindaugas, Rokas, Sonata

20:00 Juodkrantė, Evangelical Lutheran Church

WOMEN’S LOVE AND LIFE. Songs and instrumental music by Schumann, Schubert, Brahms

Ona, Tomas, Justas

 07.03

15:00 Nida Art School (Pamario st. 4) OPENING of the ECOLOGICAL art workshop. Čiurlionis’ forest

Vaida, Vilma and Jolita

 07.04

20:00 Nida, “Agila” Cultural Centre LITHUANIAN ROOTS OF THE SWING. To celebrate the American Independence Day: Gershwin, Laitman, Copland

Stein, Vytautas S., Rimvydas, Rasa, Vytautas M., Ugnė, Mindaugas, Rokas, Sonata

 07.05  

20:00 Nida, Evangelical Lutheran Church WOMEN’S LOVE AND LIFE. Songs and instrumental music by Schumann, Schubert, Brahms

Ona, Tomas, Justas

20:00 Juodkrantė, Evangelical Lutheran Church LITHUANIAN roots of the swing. To celebrate the American Independence Day: Gershwin, Laitman, Copland

Stein, Vytautas S., Rimvydas, Rasa, Vytautas M., Ugnė, Mindaugas, Rokas, Sonata

 07.06

17:00 Nida Art School (Pamario st. 4) CLOSING of the ECOLOGICAL art workshop AND OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION

18:00 Nida, The Blessed Virgin Mary Church STATE DAY OF LITHUANIA. Event dedicated to M.K.Oginski’s 250th anniversary

Ona, Vytautas S., Rimvydas, Rasa, Vytautas M., Ugnė, Mindaugas, Rokas, Sonata

 07.07  

20:00 Nida, Evangelical Lutheran Church BRITISH VERNACULAR. Purcell, Bridge, Butterworth, Britten

Stein, Rasa, Ugnė, Tomas, Sonata

20:00 Juodkrantė, Evangelical Lutheran Church INVITATION TO THE DANCE. Grieg, J. S. Bach, Piazzolla, J. Strauss…

Ona, Vytautas S., Rimvydas, Vytautas M., Mindaugas, Rokas

07.08

20:00 Nida, Evangelical Lutheran Church INVITATION TO THE DANCE. Grieg, J. S. Bach, Piazzolla, J. Strauss…

Ona, Vytautas S., Rimvydas, Vytautas M., Mindaugas, Rokas

20:00 Juodkrantė, Evangelical Lutheran Church BRITISH VERNACULAR. Purcell, Bridge, Butterworth, Britten

Stein, Rasa, Ugnė, Tomas, Sonata

07.09

20:00 Nida, Evangelical Lutheran Church BACH MUSICAL DYNASTY. Festival’s closing concert

Klaipėda Chamber Orchestra and musicians of “The Land of Disobedient”

Participants of the Festival:

Musicians:

Ona Kolobovaitė, soprano

Stein Skjervold (Norway-Lithuania), baritone

Vytautas Sriubikis, flute

Rimvydas Savickas, clarinet

Rasa Vosyliūtė, violin

Vytautas Mikeliūnas, violin

Ugnė Petrauskaitė, viola

Mindaugas Bačkus, cello

Tomas Colingwood (United Kingdom), cello

Justas Šervenikas, piano

Sonata Zubovienė, piano

Rokas Zubovas, piano

Artists:

Vaida Kunigėlytė

Vilma Dmitrijevienė

Jolita Sabaliauskaitė

“Letters to a Distant Star”, commemorating 100^th anniversary of death of Edvard Grieg will be presented at XII Pažaislis Music Festival.

Musicians of the Disobedient Ensemble:

• Andrius Radziukynas (flute)
• Julius Černius (clarinet)
• Ieva Sipaitytė (violin)
• Robertas Bliškevičius (viola)
• Mindaugas Bačkus (cello)
• Sonata Zubovienė (piano)
• Rokas Zubovas (piano)

will perform this programme of music by Edvard Grieg and poetry by Arija Alksne with actress Regina Šaltenytė on July 22, Sunday, 5 pm, at Zapyškis St. John the Baptist Church.

For detailed info, please, enter here.

On June 23 in Druskininkai starts the Forty Second annual Piano Recital Series, performed by former winners of the International Čiurlionis Piano Competition and most talented young Lithuanian pianists. At the inaugural concert, Halina Radvilaitė, professor of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, will perform music by M. K. Čiurlionis, F. Schubert, I. Albéniz. During summer months, until August 29, over twenty pianists will perform recitals in this unique setting, honoring tradition of garden concerts, created during the life of the great Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis.

On June 13 Sonata and Rokas Zubovas will present artistic legacy of M. K. Čiurlionis in Tehran, Iran, at the Farhangsaraye Niavaran Culture Centre. The programme “In Pursuit of Soundscapes” combines piano works, paintings and poetic texts of the artist, presents his unique oeuvre, delves into symbolist language of his works, examines features of his self-expression, exhibits intricate similarities of concept, form and style in the three independent modes of expression. This programme has already been successfully presented on concert stages in Canada, the USA, Norway, France, Italy, Russia, Argentina, and Uruguay.

On July 6-13 at the Lithuanian seashore resorts Nida and Juodkrantė the annual festival of music and ecology “The Land Of Disobedient” will be held for the third time. During the period of eight days listeners will be treated to a marathon of 12 music events. Traditionally disobedient programminf of the festival, that breaks barriers between cultures, styles, and traditional concert forms, includes ventures into the territory of jazz, theatre, contemporary music, presents world premieres, Lithuanian music, as well as works by forgotten composers of earlier epochs. Plain-airs of ecological art, held in cooperation with Liudvikas Rėza Cultural Centre in Juodkrantė, this year invite young children and their parents to plaint on a theme “Water – source of Life”.

On May 18-20, Disobedient Ensemble will present The Most Lamentable Musical Comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Philharmonic Hall in Kaliningrad, Russia, as part of the Lithuanian Culture Days. The production incorporates excerpts of W. Shakespeare’s comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and all of F. Mendelssohn’s music, written for the play. The production, performed over 10 times to a great acclaim in Lithuania, will be presented outside the country for the first time.

Finally, after arduous preparation, public institution „Impetus Musicus“ web page has arrived! Congratulation to everyone who was involved in the building effort!

Here you will find information about our programmes, events, our friends and associates. We sincerely hope also to hear from you what you think about us in our comment section.

We hope you will return to our site and will turn up at our concerts!

With regards,
Impetus Musicus team