The Klaipėda Brass Quintet and soloist Asta Krikščiūnaitė invite you to remember the painful days of our country’s history with the sacred music programme “Frescoes in Music”. The concert will feature works reflecting various genres and epochs, like frescoes revealing different pictures to the audience. “The opuses by English Baroque master Jeremiah Clarke, Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Antonio Caldara, George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and other composers, which we will be performing, seem to uplift all of us, inviting us to pause and rethink the world from a different perspective – for this is how frescoes affect us too,” say the artists.

The Klaipėda Concert Hall ensemble KLAIPĖDOS BRASS KVINTETAS and its artistic director, trumpeter Sigitas Petrulis, are actively performing and creating both in their native Klaipėda and on Lithuanian and foreign stages. The repertoire of the ensemble is surprisingly varied and includes works that are rarely or for the first time heard in Lithuania.

The exquisite voice of the soloist ASTOS KRIKŠČIŪNAitė allows her to perform music of various genres – operas, oratorios, chamber music, Lied, and opuses by contemporary composers. She has performed more than 700 works of various genres and has created memorable operatic roles in theatres in Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Finland and Lithuania, including works by J. S. Bach, G. F. Handel, F. Liszt, W. A. Mozart, G. Verdi, J. Brahms, A. Bruckner, A. Dvořák, L. van Beethoven, L. Janáček, K. Penderecki, H. Berlioz, G. Grigorieva, G. Kancheli and other composers.
A. Krikščiūnaitė has been awarded the Order of the White Star for her contribution to Estonian culture, the Honorary Prize of the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Poland for her contribution to Polish culture, and in 2011 she was awarded the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Art.
The singer, who has performed in various countries around the world, is a professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, head of the Singing Department, teaches singing masterclasses in Lithuania and abroad, and is a member of the juries of vocal music competitions, including the V. Noreika International Vocalist Competition.