Opening Concert: Vilnius Festival 2011

O wydarzeniu

This edition of the Vilnius Festival opens with an orchestral performance, featuring the world‐celebrated star of the violin, Vadim Repin, and the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra under its Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, Gintaras Rinkevičius.

Having made fiery passion with impeccable technique, poetry and sensitivity his unmistakable trademarks, Repin is often mentioned among his great predecessors in the metier, such as Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern, Jascha Heifetz and David Oistrakh. At the same time, the critics note: “his incredible technique, infallible exactness and his tone that seems to come from nowhere do distinguish him even from these legends…” (Le Monde, 2001) Tonight the famed violinist will perform Édouard Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole – a virtuoso showpiece, enthralling with dance rhythms and elegiac sadness.


Founded in 1997, the annual Vilnius Festival is one of the most prestigious, solid and versatile musical events in Lithuania. With primary interest in presenting classical music, performed by the established soloists, ensembles and symphony orchestras from all over the world, it also promotes contemporary Lithuanian music by commissioning new large‐scale works, and offers a platform for jazz and musical theatre.