MUSIC UNITES THE WORLD CONCERT DEDICATED TO SAMUEL BAK

On the 1st and the 2nd of August at 6 pm. the Samuel Bak Museum (Naugarduko str. 10) will be welcoming 12th International Summer Music Festival “Vivace Vilnius” 2024. The concerts MUSIC UNITES THE WORLD are dedicated to Samuel Bak, honorary citizen of Vilnius, who celebrates his 91st birthday on 12 August.

 

The concert will feature exclusive works of John Williams (Theme from “Schindler’s List”), Igor Shamo (Preludes), Astor Piazzolla (Milonga del Angel) Ernest Bloch ("Nigun" from “Baal Shem”), Marco Sofianopulo (Nigun di Solitudine e Abbandono), as well as pieces by M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco, J. Massenet, S. Auclair.

 

The Vivace Vilnius Festival is a free music festival that takes place every summer in the historic city of Vilnius, Lithuania featuring world-class performances of classical music.

 

Over the past eleven years, Vivace Vilnius Festival has hosted 86 free admission concerts in historic cultural venues such as Vilnius Town Hall, Lithuanian Art Museum, Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Samuel Bak Museum, among others. Every year, festival participants visit Santaros Children Hospital in Vilnius to perform for patients, nurses and doctors.

 

The festival also provides opportunities for promising young music students to connect with fellow artists, sharpen their performance skills, and advance musically under the instruction of internationally renowned musicians. Over the last eleven years, Vivace Vilnius has bridged the divide between nations - uniting 254 music students and faculty from more than 20 different countries including Albania, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United States. The master classes for young musicians occur at the prestigious National M. K. Ciurlionis Art School.

The International Vivace Vilnius Festival has direct links with Boston, which is also very important to Samuel Bak Museum - it is home to Samuel Bak, a honorary citizen of Vilnius, who has shared his artistic legacy with Lithuania, and whose museum is a part of the Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History.