On 1 April, Vilnius University celebrates its 447th anniversary – a date shared with the VU Chamber Orchestra, which marks its 47th birthday on the same day.

To celebrate this occasion, the Orchestra invites you to a concert on 28 March at 19:00 at St John’s Church, honouring both anniversaries. The festive performance will feature well-known Lithuanian performers:  

Bassoonist Šarūnas Kačionas – a long-time solo bassoonist with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra and the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, a teacher who has been training young musicians for more than three decades. 

Oboist Morta Kačion – a performer of the younger generation, a fourth-generation musician who studied in Stockholm, The Hague, and Oslo, and actively performs in chamber music projects.  

Oboist, professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, and Doctor of Arts Robertas Beinaris is one of Lithuania's most prominent wind instrument performers, an active soloist and teacher who consistently nurtures the tradition of chamber music. 

Horn player Indrė Kuleševičienė is a lecturer at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and principal horn player with the Lithuanian Armed Forces Orchestra. A laureate of international competitions, she studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music and was awarded the Medal of the President of the Republic of Lithuania for promoting the name of Lithuania abroad. 

The concert will feature:

Arvydas Malcys, Concerto grosso
(oboe, solo clarinet, and string orchestra)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major 
(oboe, clarinet, bassoon, solo horn and orchestra)

Antonio Salieri's Sinfonia veneziana 
(orchestra) 

Artistic director and conductor of the orchestra – Modestas Jankūnas 

Admission is free. Doors open: 18:30

The Vilnius University Chamber Orchestra is a chamber music ensemble striving for high artistic quality, which has been bringing together performers with diverse musical experience for five decades. Over its long creative career, the orchestra has become an important part of Lithuanian musical life, actively performing in major concert halls and churches in Lithuania and abroad. The orchestra is part of the Vilnius University Culture Center. 

If you would like to learn more about the concert and other events organized by the VU Culture Center for the university community and the city's residents, please follow the news on the website www.kultura.vu.lt