The Assumption Feast is an ancient celebration of the apogee of green growth and the maturity of the harvest, and the Catholic feast of St. It is the oldest and most venerable of all celebrations in honour of the Mother of God. It is symbolic that the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Dubingiai is the most important of all. The programme of the concert at St George’s Church in Dubingis will include the most beautiful hymns and arias dedicated to Our Lady, performed by the VMU Chamber Orchestra, soloist Eglė Stundžiaitė and conductor Vytautas Lukočius.

The VMU Chamber Orchestra, founded in 2011 at the Vytautas Magnus University Academy of Music, is the only professional chamber orchestra in Kaunas. It was founded not only to expand the culture of classical music and its contemporary interpretations in the temporary capital, but also to represent Lithuania, the city of Kaunas and the university on an international level and to represent them abroad.
In the relatively short period of its existence, the orchestra has already performed more than 200 concerts in Lithuania and abroad, participated in the main Lithuanian festivals, as well as in the Euro-Mediterranean Youth Music Expo 2012 festival in the Republic of Cyprus, in 2013 the orchestra debuted at the prestigious Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Germany, in 2017 the orchestra made a tour in the United States of America, and in 2019 it performed at the international chamber music festival “Salkhino palace camerata” in Sakhartveli.

She completed her Master’s studies at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (prof. Eglė Stundžiaitė studied at Nord Opera (Norway), Luigi Cherubini Conservatory (Florence), and furthered her knowledge at the master classes of various renowned performers such as Konrad Jarnot (Great Britain), Barbro Marklund Peterson (Norway), Violeta Urmana, Giuseppe Sabbatini (Italy), Valerian Gamghebeli (Spain-Sacartwell). She has sung with the Lithuanian State Orchestra, Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Vilnius Sinfonietta, St. Christopher’s Orchestra, Musica Humana Chamber Music Ensemble of the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Orchestra, VMU Chamber Orchestra and other ensembles, and has been working with the projects of the director Dalia Ibelhauptaite and Vilnius City Opera since 2016. In 2021, Stundžiaitė made her debut at the P. Tchaikovsky Theatre, and in 2020-2022 she trained at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, where she created numerous roles. Her repertoire is rich not only in operatic and oratorio works, but also in concert-cum-chamber music, which she performs in Lithuania and abroad. Since 2020, she has also been the vocal coach of the renowned Bel Canto Choir and has established her own vocal studio.