Meeting with the Guest Composer of the Festival JUSTĖ JANULYTĖ
October 28, Monday
National Philharmonic Hall, 19:30
Moderator Rasa Murauskaitė-Juškienė
Free entrance
The works by Justė Janulytė (b. 1982), mostly written for dense monochromatic ensembles (only strings, only winds or only voices), explore musical time/space perception through large-scale multilayered textures and extremely gradual metamorphoses. While balancing between the aesthetics of minimalism, spectralism and acoustic electronica, Justė Janulytė composes sonic metaphors of optic ideas (Here at the quiet limit for male choir and string orchestra, The Colour of Water for saxophone(s) solo and orchestra, Was there a Swan? for symphony orchestra) and researches the visual nature of musical phenomena in the works where sound and image are fused together (Breathing Music for string quartet, electronics and kinetic sculptures, Sandglasses for 4 cellos, electronics and video scenography).
In 2009 Janulyte won the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris (in the category of composers under 30). In 2011 the composer was awarded the Young Artist’s Prize by the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture and in 2017 the Lithuanian National Arts and Culture Prize, the highest artistic distinction in Lithuania. In 2019 she won the ‘Musica femina München’ competition. She has collaborated with quite a few of the world’s leading ensembles and soloists including Konzerthausorchester Berlin, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Teatro La Fenice Symphony, BBC Symphony and National Orchestra of Wales, Helsinki Philharmonic, Polish National Philharmonic, London sinfonietta, WDR Rundfunkchor, Latvian Radio choir, BBC Singers, conductors Olari Elts, Sylvain Cambreling, Eliahu Inbal, Emilio Pomarico, Enno Poppe, Peter Rundel, Normunds Šnė, Jörg Widmann, Bas Wiegers amongst others.
Her music has been performed across Europe, the Americas, Australia and Japan, and has featured in such contexts as Sydney Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Venice Biennale, RomaEuropa, Milano Musica, ManiFeste (Paris), Holland Festival (Amsterdam), Musica Nova Helsinki, Warsaw Autumn, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, SonicA (Glasgow), Maerzmusik (Berlin), Musik der Zeit (WDR Cologne), to name a few.
In 2020 Justė Janulytė made her cinematic debut collaborating with Latvian director Viesturs Kairišs on the full length feature “City on the River” continuing with “January” which won the Tribeca (NY) film festival as the best international narrative feature as well as Roma Film Fest among others.
Justė Janulytė is a member of the Musical Council of the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco.