Common project of VMU ŠA ensemble “Šviesa” and Vilkaviškis music ensemble “Siaustinis”

Students and leaders of the Vytautas Magnus University Education Academy song and dance ensemble “Šviesa” are pleased with the beautiful cooperation with the students and teachers of the Vilkaviškis Music School song and dance ensemble “Siaustinis”. The result of these two collectives is a common music project “Meeting the Summer”.

We invite you to listen to the common work of the collectives:

VMU ŠA ensemble “Šviesa” presents a virtual song

Vytautas Magnus University Education Academy ensemble “Šviesa” send a virtual greeting on Valentine’s Day:

VMU Chamber Orchestra released meditation music mini-album “Infinity”

Vytautas Magnus university Chamber Orchestra, in collaboration with performer Liutauras Janušaitis, has released their second album together – a mini-album of meditation music “Infinity”.

This project was funded by the Culture Council and thanks to the public institution “Klasikos project”, project manager Rita Bieliauskaitė and long-term cooperation with Liutauras Janušaitis.

Back in 2017, together with VMU Chamber Orchestra and other performers, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Liutauras Janušaitis released his creative album “Two Different Sides of the Moon” on CD and vinyl record formats. The album was partly supported by the Lithuanian Culture Council. Presentation concerts took place in Lithuanian cities and the United States, and the recordings appeared on various platforms on the Internet.

The album “Infinity” is a 30-minute uninterrupted musical journey, in which natural sounds of nature intertwine with various sound layers and individual electronic, acoustic instrumental, or whole string orchestra sounds. To describe the work, the word meditation was chosen with the aim of conveying the relaxing, often somewhat transcendent, nature of music. Although consisting of several shorter parts, due to the barely perceptible connections between these parts, the whole suite will imperceptibly move the listener into ever new musical landscapes, creating the feeling of one uninterrupted narrative. The meditative, dreamy, and relaxing atmosphere is created by various sound design tools that create multiple layers of “spatial” sound, as if in the distance, in which the interweaves of various melodies based on the transparent, bright harmonic language are sunk. The sounds of nature, recorded in various corners of the world over several years (ocean rustling, birds chirping, wind, night cicadas, thunder, etc.), fascinate and take the listener to a distant uninhabited island.

Composer and performer: Liutauras Janušaitis (saxophone, flute, vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards, percussion, and programming)

Bass guitar: Louan Kemlin

Vocal: Germaine Ingram, Lina El-Mounzer, Augusto Albuquerque

VMU Chamber Orchestra

Author of the poem: Lina El-Mounzer

Translation into Portuguese: Alex Esquivel

Album photographers: Dalia Mikučionytė and Romy Pocztaruk

Recorded by:  Instituto Sacatar (Itaparica, Brazil)

VMU Chamber Orchestra recording director: Vilius Keras, recorded in VMU Great Hall

You can listen to the album for free on the Youtube platform.

VMU ŠA ensemble “Šviesa” shares a virtually recorded song

Vytautas Magnus University Education academy song and dance ensemble “Šviesa” virtually recorded Vytautas Klova’s harmonized Lithuanian folk song “Tylūs, tylūs, vakariele”.

VMU Arts Centre collectives send holiday greetings

The collectives of Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) Arts Centre and the VMU Chamber Orchestra congratulates everyone with the holidays and send virtual greetings.

Important information about the organization of artistic activities

In response to the deteriorating situation in the country due to the threat of COVID-19 and in accordance with the recommendations of the Minister of Education, Science and Sports, the Minister of Health, and the Head of State Emergency Operations, we inform that from October 30, 2020, the activities of the VMU Arts Centre are organized remotely (if possible). This procedure is valid until further notice.

If you have any questions, please contact us by e-mail: menu.centras@vdu.lt or by phone: (8 37) 295 586.

Follow the information: https://www.vdu.lt/en/information-about-covid-19/

VMU Ballroom Dance Studio classes are canceled

In order to comply will all COVID-19 prevention measures, VMU Ballroom Dance studio classes in the autumn semester are canceled.

This message is valid until further notice. We invite you follow the information on the http://menucentras.vdu.lt/en/ page.

Registration for Arts Activities for Autumn Semester 2020 / 2021 has started

We kindly invite students of Vytautas Magnus University, who are studying in Kaunas, Akademija (Kaunas District) or Vilnius to register for arts activities for Autumn Semester  2020 / 2021, that are organized by VMU Arts Centre.

All students of VMU are welcomed to join arts activities regardless to their study majors.  All activities for VMU students are free-of-charge. Students can register for several activities at once.

Registration for Art Activities

Students who are willing to perform, dance, sing or play instruments at one of VMU Arts Centre artistic groups in Kaunas, Akademija (Kaunas District) or Vilnius has to register for activities by logging into http://studentas.vdu.lt. In the section “Registration” > “Arts Centre activities”, student has to choose a preferred artistic group and click on the button “Enroll”.

VMU Arts Centre collectives

All the activities to which students has enrolled will be shown in http://studentas.vdu.lt in the upper side of the section “Registration” > “Arts Centre activities”. Students may enroll and withdraw out of the activities organized by artistic groups of the Arts Centre at any time of the semester.

After the enrollment to the activities you should start to attend it as soon as possible, on the schedule which is indicated in the registration form. If you are looking for a reminder of your activities, you may look for it by logging into http://studentas.vdu.lt in the section “Registration” > “Arts Centre activities”.

VMU ŽŪA chapel “Ūkininkas” presents the premiere

VMU ŽŪA folk music chapel “Ūkininkas” during the quarantine recorded the work “Dievas davė…” by maestro Andrius Kulikauskas.

We invite you to listen to:

Initiative – choir “Yesterday and always”

The choir “Yesterday and always” is a meaningful initiative that united many choirs to work together. Vytautas Magnus University mixed choir Vivere Cantus also took part in the initiative.