Open To The World '24: Christopher Tin, LVSO, Choras Bel Canto ir Draugai

Chorus Bel Canto presents: a unique, once-in-a-lifetime experience - for the first time in the Baltic and Nordic countries, immerse yourself in the cult video game and cinematic music of Grammy winner Christopher Tin right here in Vilnius!

Continuing its unique Open To The World project, the Bel Canto Choir presents an exclusive content and concert experience. Two evenings in a row - 2024. December 8-9 - the choir will hold concerts with the main guest of the project - Christopher Tin (USA), one of the world's most famous composers of concert, opera and video game music, conductor and two-time "Grammy" laureate. At the same time, the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian vocal ensemble "Duodeco", choir "A Scalpella" (Sweden), soloists Jamal Moore (USA), Tomas Pavilionis and others will also participate.

Christopher Tin's music has crossed national borders and is listened to by hundreds of millions around the world. Joining this global phenomenon, a team of more than 150 singers and musicians from Lithuania, the USA and Sweden will perform his most famous works at the LVSO concert hall in Vilnius.

Exclusive content and concert experience Christmas in Vilnius

In the first part of the concert, the premiere of the composer's latest large-scale piece "The Lost Birds" (for choir, vocal ensemble and orchestra) in the Nordic and Baltic region . This work, which has a strong social and environmental dimension, is a musical memorial to bird species that have been exterminated by mankind. It's a touching, sensitive, cinematic piece that pays homage to the flocks of birds that once filled our skies, whose songs have died down. It is also a warning about our fragile existence on the planet - the fate that befell the wings also predicts our extinction.

The second part of the concert is dedicated to Christopher Tin's work for the media. For the first time in the region, the most popular works from the albums that earned the composer worldwide fame and a Grammy will be played live. For example, the hit of hundreds of millions of listens "Baba Yetu" from the album "Calling All Dawns", created for the video game Civilization IV, became not only a modern choral standard, but also made music history as the first work written for a video game to win a Grammy Award.

Christopher Tin's multilingual song cycle Calling All Dawns won his second Grammy Award for Best Classical Album, and The Drop That Contained the Sea debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Classical Charts. Its world premiere took place at Carnegie Hall in New York.

The only such evening in the Baltic and Nordic countries

The concert will also feature works from another world-renowned composer's album "To Shiver the Sky". It is an oratorio about the history of flight and mankind's quest to conquer the skies. In it, eleven of the most famous astronomers, inventors, visionaries and pilots talk about our inexorable need to explore the universe, to ignore earthly ties and to earn our place among the stars.

Album main the highlight and the final piece of the concert - another hit with hundreds of millions of listens "Sogno di Volare". This composition for the video game Civilization VI is a musical illustration of Leonardo Da Vinci's text about flight. It is about discoveries: both geographical, when we discover new lands, and intellectual, when we seek knowledge of science and new technologies.

Christopher Tin's work sings in different languages: English, Latin, Italian, German, French, Polish, Sanskrit and others. In this way, the composer sends a strong message of unity - regardless of race, culture, religious and other differences, we are all connected by a common human experience.

Participating in the concert

Christopher Tin (USA), conductor and composer.

Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra (artistic director Gintaras Rinkevičius).

Choir "Bel Canto" (artistic director Milda Švelnienė).

Choir "A Scalpella" (Sweden), artistic director Rasmus Krigström.

Vocal ensemble "Duodeco" (artistic director Povilas Vanžodis).

Jamal Moore (USA), soloist.

Tomas Pavilion, soloist.

Christopher Tin conducts.

Choro "Bel Canto" artistic director Milda Švelnienė, choirmasters Raminta Gocentienė and Povilas Vanžodis, vocal pedagogues Eglė Stundžiaitė and Eimantas Bešėnas. Producers of the "Open To The World" concert: Audrius Valatkevičius (Bel Canto Choir) and Claire Long (Music Productions, UK).

Open To The World 2024

Choro "Bel Canto" festival "Open To The World" is a unique vocal-choral music project that has become traditional in Lithuania. Its purpose is to present modern content, the world's best choirs, vocal ensembles and composers, to promote cultural and choral music innovations and cooperation between music creators from Lithuania and other countries, to nurture Western culture, to create, make music and improve together.

Started in 2018, Open To The World will present five concerts this year with the participation of more than 200 singers and musicians: composer and conductor, two-time Grammy winner Christopher Tin ( USA), vocal ensemble "Duodeco", (Lithuania), Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, choir "A Scalpella" (Sweden), soloists Jamal Moore (USA) and Tomas Pavilionis (Lithuania), one of the world's most famous vocal ensembles "The Real Group" (Sweden), barbershop vocal ensemble "Lemon Squeezy" (Sweden), vocalist and guitarist Marių Beck (Norway), the best boy and youth choir in Lithuania "Dagilėlis" and others.

Project sponsors: building manufacturers INHUS, "Business Garden Vilnius" office park developed by "Vastint Lithuania", "SIRIN Development", the largest logistics and industrial real estate developer in the Baltic States, and Vilnius City Municipality. Information partner - LRT television, advertising partner - advertising agency "Ogilvy".

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