Tuesday 12 November 2024, 7.30pm
PROGRAMME:
Twenty Fingers Duo
- East – Dominykas Digimas
- Shadows of Nighttime Canvases – Andrius Maslekovas
- 50% DNA Canon – Arturas Bumšteinas
GBSR Duo
- music by the Hobbs/White duo
- Tim Parkinson - Project 9000
- Angharad Davies - Rydal Mount
Supported by the Lithuanian Culture Institute
LORA KMIELIAUSKAITĖ / violin
ARNAS KMIELIAUSKAS / cello
The contemporary music ensemble was founded in Vilnius in 2016, by sister and brother violinist Lora Kmieliauskaitė and cellist Arnas Kmieliauskas.
Twenty Fingers Duo actively participate in and initiate contemporary art projects, with a strong focus on collaboration with artists from other fields. The main task of the ensemble's musical activity is to foster and promote Lithuanian music, while the gamut of their activities ranges from standard concert appearances and interdisciplinary performances to collaborations in contemporary opera, theatre, dance, and film productions.
The music they perform emerges at the intersection of extended playing techniques and graphic scores. In its live performances, Twenty Fingers Duo places great emphasis on the stage setup and the mingling between light and darkness. In 2020, they released their debut album Performa. In the recent years, they have released two more albums – Dualitas and Two Sides: West/East – and an interdisciplinary stage work Orpheus, Eurydice,
SIWAN RHYS / piano
GEORGE BARTON / percussion
GBSR DUO - George Barton (percussion) and Siwan Rhys (piano) - combines two of the UK’s finest young contemporary chamber instrumentalists: “a wonderful, adventuresome, sensitive pair of musicians” (Kate Molleson, BBC R3).
Known for their fearless, intense performances, GBSR’s work ranges from Stockhausen and Ustvolskaya to Brian Eno and Aphex Twin via Barbara Monk Feldman and Michael Pisaro, also taking in collaborations with leading improvisers like Angharad Davies and experimental pop artists like CHAINES.
Regular performances at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Bold Tendencies and Kings Place, other recent concerts include Laurence Osborn and Harold Budd at Cheltenham Music Festival, Eva-Maria Houben at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Oliver Leith’s Last Days at the Royal Opera House and at Walt Disney Hall with the LA Philharmonic.
