Shalom Culture & Music Festival closing concert

On 3 October, the closing concert of the Shalom Culture & Music Festival will take place at St Catherine's Church, featuring clarinetist from Israel Orit Orbach, bayan virtuoso from Ukraine Yevgenii Musijets, the Vilnius City Municipality St Christopher Chamber Orchestra (artistic director and chief conductor Modestas Barkauskas) and guest musicians. The concert programme dedicated to the Hebrew New Year (Rosh Hashanah) will feature the Klezmer Concerto by Israeli composer Ofer Ben Amots, the works of Jievaras Jasinskis, and orchestral arrangements of well-known works of Jewish music.

"The Shalom Culture & Music Festival will take place from May to October and will visit 7 Lithuanian cities and towns. The almost half-year-long Jewish Music & Culture Festival will feature classical and contemporary composers, klezmer melodies, jazz improvisations, exhibitions and artistic activities. Musicians and singers from Lithuania, Ukraine and Israel will participate in the festival. This year's festival programme includes 12 concerts in Vilnius, Kaunas, Šiauliai, Telšiai, Alytus, Palanga and Zapyškis.

The festival is partly financed by Vilnius City Municipality, Kaunas City Municipality, Embassy of Israel in Lithuania, the Department of National Minorities under the Lithuanian Government, Wix.com, Park Inn Vilnius Airport and private sponsors. Information partner LRT.

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PERFORMERS:

Orit Orbach (clarinet, Israel)
“Her Performance of the Copland concerto reaffirmed her status as one of the most engaging and charismatic musicians of our generation” Michael Aizenstadt, Jerusalem Post

Orit Orbach appeared as soloist with many orchestras as The Israel Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta, The Jerusalem Symphony, The Israel Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco Sinfonietta, Sofia Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, Hagen Symphony and Warsaw Philharmonic. 

Ms. Orbach was principal Clarinetist of the Jerusalem Symphony, the Israel Symphony, Rishon Le Zion and the Haifa Symphony. She participated in many festivals, including The most prestigious Marlboro Festival, USA, The Tanglewood Music Festival, Neustadt International Chamber Festival, Warsaw Jewish Music Festival, Canberra International Chamber Music Festival , San Francisco Jewish Music Festival and more .

She collaborates with many renowned musicians such as Shlomo Mintz, Daniel Barenboim, Yuri Bashmet, Raphael Wallfisch, David Soyer, Michael Tree and Murray Perahia. 

Except for her busy Classical career, Orit specializes in Jewish music. For the past 20 years Orit performs worldwide as soloist and with a variety of ensembles Ethnic Jewish Music, introducing  a fusion of ethnic and Classical . Among the ensembles is the “Eve’s Women Band”, a highly appreciated women ensemble which performs Jewish music in new styles as Jazz, Rock, Middle Eastern, Balkan. Eve’s Women brings together a new style- the Jazz- Ethno- Jewish Music with a strong exotic feminine touch.

Orit Gives unique master classes for Clarinetists and special workshops around the world. Besides her Clarinet unique techniques, she masters in Klezmer music, introducing this style in a practical and exciting way to all instruments. After years of research, Orit created a very successful workshop on ‘Stage Fright”, and the results are amazing. 

Orit is a conductor as well, specializing in wind orchestras. Orit conducts the Netanya Conservatory young orchestras and the Netanya Community Wind Orchestra, NCWO.

The Vast career of Ms. Orbach includes being a judge in international competitions.  She was the judge at the Penderecki International Contemporary Competition in Poland, The Virgin Islands competition, The Spring International competition and The America- Israel Cultural Foundation in Israel and the Paul ben Haim Competition. 

Orit received with honors her MM degree at the New England Conservatory and her MM from North Western University. 

She won first prizes in the music Concerto competition in the New England Conservatory and the Concerto competition in Northwestern University.

The Vilnius City Municipality St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra (artistic director and chief conductor – Modestas Barkauskas, honorary conductor – Donatas Katkus) is a collective widely known for its universality, professionalism, and artistic imagination. The orchestra is an eagerly awaited guest not just in prestigious concert halls in Lithuania and abroad, such as the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, the Harpa in Reikjavik, the Berwaldhallen in Stockholm, at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, or the Royal Palace in Warsaw, St Petersburg’s M. Glinka Hall, or Moscow’s P. Tchaikovsky’s Conservatory, but also in less predictable places like outdoor stages or even sand quarries… More information www.kristoforas.lt

Guest musicians:
Joana Daunytė (harp)
Andrius Rekašius (marimba, percussion)
Sigitas Gailius (vibraphone, percussion)
Tadas Daujotas (shofar)

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