Sunday, April 27, 2:00 PM
Trinity Christian College Ozinga Chapel Auditorium
6601 W College Dr., Palos Heights, IL 60463
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$45 - in advance,
$50 - the day of the concert,
$20 - youth up to 17 years old (this program is not recommended for children up to 9 years old).
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The concert will feature trumpeter Dovas Lietuvninkas, a native of the Chicago area, who has received degrees in trumpet and music education at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. In 2017 he received a U.S. Fulbright grant to study trumpet and Lithuanian folk instruments in Vilnius, where, in 2018, he joined the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra as principal trumpet. Before returning to the United States in 2023, he received his master’s degree in trumpet from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and spent a season as a member of the academy of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. Dovas is currently principal trumpet of both the Hartford and New Haven Symphony Orchestra in Connecticut. Dovas is a passionate educator and advocate of new music, having commissioned and premiered many new works for trumpet, and is always seeking to cross boundaries and build bridges across all audiences and musics, from folk to the avant-garde.
The concert will include works by D. Beinarytė, M. K. Čiurlionis (celebrating his 150th birthday), B. Dvarionas, A. Kačanauskas, M. Lauridsen, J. Tamulionis and L. Vilkončius for choir, as well as works by J. Haydn and A. Šiurys for solo trumpet. The choir will present Kęstutis Daugirdas’ “Plaudite Psallite” (Let Us Clap and Sing). This work has recently received critical acclaim in concert halls throughout Europe and North America. Solo trumpet and a capella choir will perform Scottish composer James MacMillan’s “In Splendoribus Sanctorum”. And as the finale, brass ensemble and percussion will join the choir for John Rutter's masterpiece “Gloria”.
We cordially invite you to this musical celebration of trumpet and choir.
