Ciclo Continuo

Ciclo Continuo (2021) for soprano saxophone & percussion: prepared snare drum, singing bowls, tuning forks, crotale.

Composition Ciclo Continuo seeks to achieve a hybrid organic timbre while associating atypical instruments to complement each other. A snare drum is used as a resonating body for the objects.

Performed by Duo Dubois. Written for the project Project More with less with financial support from the Lithuanian Council for Culture.

Vellum

Vellum (2020) for Symphonic Orchestra.

Vellum is a “membrane” or animal skin, – a parchment to write on, widely used in the medieval ages. Vellum material represents the membrane of the drum since the vibrational modes of percussive instruments are used to create a harmonic structure of the piece as if writing a manuscript on a vellum.

Commission of the festival Gaida. Performed by Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Anu Tali on the 30th of October in the Congress Hall, Vilnius.

Sturnus vulgaris cohibitus

Sturnus vulgaris cohibitus (2020) for pianist and transducers inside the piano. 

The impact of the lockdown on nature was pronounced, as people were confined at home, animals began to feel freer in cities, pollution and noise levels decreased and birdsong became more audible. Confined at home, I began to watch starling flocks in my garden and listen to their (by my first impression) non-melodic songs. I wanted to capture their voices, turning them into a virtual instrument.

Performed by Marco Riccelli at Villa Waldberta. Commissioned by the project KONTAKTAS.

Encierro

Encierro (2019) for saxhorn quartet.

Encierro was created for and recorded by the saxhorn quartet Opus 333 at the studio 104, Radio France for the radio show Création Mondiale (Alla Breve)in 2019. Listen to the podcast with more music and an interview on Radio France website.

Performed by the saxhorn quartet Opus 333 at the studio 104, Radio France for the radio show Création Mondiale (Alla Breve)in 2019.

La Cité des Dames

The composition La Cité des Dames (The City of Ladies) for 6 sopranos uses the selected text from Christine’s de Pizan (1364-1430) book of the same name finished by the year 1405 in a vernacular middle French. Pizan’s allegorical city of ladies is defending the virtue of female with examples of famous virtuous women to be “housed” at La Cité and serving as role models for other women to follow.

Performed by singers: Adriana Aranda, Louise Leterme, Kanae Mizobuchi, Andrea Conangla Fernandes, Mathilde Barthelemy, Esther Rispens and directed by Donatienne Michel-Dansac at Abbey of Royaumont on the 7th of September. Commission of Fondation Royaumont.

Designation & Expulsion

Designation & Expulsion (2018) for mezzo-soprano, bass and percussion.

Designation & Expulsion (2018) uses the text of pagan Lithuanian charms from the book Lithuanian Verbal Healing Charms (2008) compiled by Daiva Vaitkevičienė. The author apply a classification of charms, two of them being Designation and Expulsion.

Performed by mezzo-soprano Lucy Goddard, bass Jimmy Holliday and percussionist Philipp Lamprecht at the Royaumont Abbey, France on the 8th of September 2018.

Grimoire for baritone and big ensemble

Grimoire for baritone and big ensemble. The composition uses the multilingual text from a medieval grimoire Ars Notoria.

Performed by Einar Þór Guðmundsson and orchestra de ereprijs at Young Composers Meeting.

INCANTA

INCANTA (2018) a preview of chamber opera for soprano, performer, clarinet-bass clarinet, trombone, el.guitar, piano, violin, vello, double bass, and electronics.

“The obstruction of a vessel that carries blood to the brain breaks the optimal blood circulation system of the brain and synaptic space. Knowing that the radius of the whole dendritic tree is about a millimetre… the continued prolongation of the axon terminates in a star-like arborization and is lost in the cerebellar night, the lateral hemisphere is bathed in liquid. <…>”

Text by Douna Loup. Performed by ensemble Asko/Schönberg conducted by Joey Marijs, soprano Eduarda Melo, performer Aurélie Turlet, and electronics Justina Repečkaitė at Chartreuse Villeneuve lez Avignon, 2018.

Cosmatesque

Cosmatesque (2017) for Symphonic Orchestra.

Cosmatesque term refers not only to a medieval style of geometric decorative inlay stonework but also to a developed symbolical system, which represents concepts and ideas of a universe structure thanks to the coded geometry.

Commission of the festival Gaida. Performed by Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Christopher Lyndon-Gee, at Vilnius Philharmonic the 30th of November, 2017.

Tapisserie

Tapisserie (2015) for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello.

Tapestry – a polychromic fabric, was an inspiration for the title of this piece of music, which has a decorative and repetitive character.

Performed by Court-Circuit ensemble conducted by David Hurpeau.

Toro

Toro (2015) for Euphonium & Electronics.

Unusual expression of euphonium fulfils the need of an animalistic sounding.

Dedicated to and performed by Vianney Desplantes.

Acupuncture

Acupuncture (2014) for flute (piccolo and alto), clarinet (both in Bb and Bass), piano, violin, alto, cello.

This composition explores attacks of sounds, it’s continuity and motion connecting this material in a metaphoric way with Acupuncture.

Performed by Spectra Ensemble conducted by Filip Rathé. In memory of Dalia Baroniene, the acupuncture master.

Pulsus Flatus Vox

Pulsus Flatus Vox (2014) for Flute-Alto Flute, Clarinet-Bass Clarinet, Horn, Trumpet, Trombone.

The title Pulsus Flatus Vox (Latin – Rhythm Blow Voice) is derived from the use of musical material.

Performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain during Manifeste festival at Le Centquatre,.

Plate Tectonics

For accordion and cello.

Plate Tectonics is a scientific theory describing the colossal motions of Earth’s lithosphere.

Performed by Sergey Ilya Tchirkov and Ilya Rubenstein at Moscow Philharmonic.

Chartres

Chartres (2012) string orchestra (9 violins, 3 violas, 3 cellos, double-bass).

The inspiration of Chartres is an insight into Chartres Cathedral south rose, which depicts the Apocalypse according to Saint John. 13th century glass window is dominated by images of old-men holding string instruments.

Absence

For ensemble: flute, trumpet, mezzo-soprano, harp, double-bass