Ensemble SED CONTRA (Kyiv), 19.09.2013, Kyiv

Voice/Way (2013) version for instrumental ensemble and electronic

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Voice:Tamar Putkaradze
Cello: Teemu Mastovaara

1. Autumn evening
2. Faded daffodils
3. Nine moon
( Based on Matsuo Basho's poetry)

Dedicated to Teemu Mastovaara

Three Haiku (for voice and cello)

Live world premiere recording at the Thornham Summer Festival. Commissioned by the Thornham Summer Festival, performed by Adrien Bernege (clarinet in Bb), Fra Rustumji (violin), Corentin Chassard ('cello), Sam Cave (guitar), Bartosz Glowacki (accordion), Guillaume Mathias (piano) and the church bellringers of Thornham Magna. Conducted by Jon Hargreaves .

At the edge of his dreams... (2017)

Field of fragile friends to enter frame 
Think fast before they clickety-clack saddle your brain

Feels like I chase the rain, some place in the mist 
Enticing pleasures & a brick hard wall hit with a fist

Fester in numbness
Dance for your own eye to see...
But I disappear when you near me.

FRAGILE FRIENDS

Excerpts from Adam de la Cour & Neil Luck's duo rendition of Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate (1922-1932)

FULL ALBUM AVAILABLE HERE:
https://squib-box.bandcamp.com/album/ursonate

There is NO ELECTRONIC MODIFICATION of sound in this performance (asides from simple amplification). All sounds are acoustically produced.

Recorded live at Iklectic Gallery, London, 4th August 2018

Ursonate (Adam de la Cour & Neil Luck) EXCERPTS

2 Islands of Silhouettes        Composed: Ruta Vitkauskaite

ABOUT RŪTA VITKAUSKAITĖ 
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While working as a concert music composer for over 18 years, I have also dedicated much of my time working in community and participatory projects. My highest professional achievements include PhD in Composition at the Royal Academy of Music (London 2017); Royal Philharmonic Society award (2020); and Golden Stage Cross Award (LT) for collaborative opera for blind-folded audience, 'Confessions' (having toured EU with 47 shows to date), besides many other smaller awards and prizes. Over the years, my scores were performed in festivals across EU, including Gaudeamus, Operadagen (NL), Sound (UK), Nordbeg, Halland (SE), Gaida, NOA (LT), SUSA (DK) and elsewhere, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Deutschlandradio Kultur (a special one hour long portrait), Lithuanian National TV. With self-performed works, I have attended residencies, Serde (LV), Q-O2 (BE), EMS (SE), and performed at festivals, Aldeburgh (UK), Halland (SE), Aarhus (DK).
I have also been an active initiator, organiser, and facilitator of new music events: I was director of 'Druskomanija' festival and workshop series 'The Process' in Lithuania, facilitator of 'New Music Incubator' (Nordic, Baltic countries, EU), and currently – initiator and Music Director of CoMA (Contemporary Music for All) Glasgow branch.

WEBSITE: www.rutavitkauskaite.weebly.com

CHRYSALIS 
for percussion solo and symphony orchestra 

The idea for Chrysalis emerged from exploring  Indian konnakkol performances, and merging those rhythms with my interest in sound exploration. The percussion part was a result of many hours spent in Jude Carlton’s studio, listening to some very tiny and some big and dramatic sounds of hundreds of percussion instruments. The form of the piece became a journey from a very structuralized rhythmical world, into a world of timbral abstraction, and back. Many of the instruments are owned by myself or Jude personally, some of them even built by Jude. For some of those tiny instruments, it will be first time on the big stage. So listen carefully…

Chrysalis for percussion solo and symphony orchestra

"Tapestry no. 3" is part of a series of works that I am composing with images, connecting the horizontal passings of time with the verticalities of texture, timbre, harmony, density, and amplitude.

Performers include Max Mulpagano, Matt Peralta, and Sam Zagnit. Performed in Sprague Hall at the Yale School of Music, November 7, 2019.

Tapestry no. 3 (unedited) - contrabass trio as transition piece during stage setup

"Tapestry no. 2" is part of a series of works that I am composing with images, connecting the horizontal passings of time with the verticalities of texture, timbre, harmony, density, and amplitude.

Performance by the residents of the 2019 Westben Performer-Composer Residency:

Elizabeth A. Baker
Jacinta Clusellas
Erika Dohi
Ben Finley
Rebecca Gray
Iman Habibi
Nick Hon
Tova G. Kardonne
Davy Sumner
Justin Wright
Ben Zucker

Chrysalis for percussion solo and symphony orchestra

Ruta V

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