15 May 2025
20.15h Orgelpark
Jurgis Kubilius
Jurgis Kubilius is a Lithuanian composer, music publicist, and public speaker. His work embodies the Hermes archetype—bridging intuition and logic, conceptualism and beauty, sincerity and humor. He enjoys playfully challenging both audiences and musicians, treating sound, text, and gesture as equal creative elements.
Jurgis studied composition at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and is completing his master’s degree at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He has received numerous awards, including the Lithuanian Composers’ Union’s Young Composers Award (2023) and first prize at the Vox Juventutis Competition (2024). In 2025, he was awarded an Emerging Artist Grant from the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
Jurgis is also an active music publicist, concert and radio host, currently featured on Lithuanian National Radio.
About A window
[......] to a yard and block of flats in front, [.....] to the past that seems to unfold in the present moment, [.....] to the future that seems to exist now, [.....] to the now that has no difference from the past, [.....] the future that, eventually, has passed, and [.....] to the past that emerges in the future.
About Ricercare IV
Ricercar is a 16th-century musical "research" genre, intended to test an instrument or showcase the mode of a larger work. My own ricercars serve a similar purpose, this time to explore the Utopa organ and create a bridge between two program pieces. What will come of this quest? As I write these words, I (excitingly) have no idea...
About MOODDDU͠UUL͢LLḀΛΛT†͇TÌ̲Í̳ĮÖ̪Ø̜Ø̻NŇϞ§̼$̶Ş
This sonic-linguistic research endeavors to critically examine the correlation between extreme corporeal diminution and its ramifications on operatic phonation, stating that Maria Callas’ profound weight loss precipitated an enduring regress of both the singing practice and vocal music listening experience. Over the past 70 years, operatic voices gradually degraded, resembling instruments rather than 'it's giving natural'; singers forget, like, how bel canto tradition is very mindful, very cutesy, very demure. And fr, primadonas just keep getting skinnier and skinnier till—poof—gone. Like, y’all good? Opera ain't hitting the same anymore, and honestly, it's kinda sus.
Dimitra Sofroniou
Dimitra Sofroniou (°1996) she/her is a composer, performer and sound artist hailing from Athens, Greece. She is currently pursuing her master's degree in Composition at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Dimitra's work is characterized by her keen interest in exploring the intersection of sound and visual elements. She has composed music for performances, art installations, films and video games. Along with her on-going projects, her research focuses on spatialisation in sound, sound visualisation and generative composition. Some of her projects and performances have taken place at the National Theatre of Greece, Technopolis and Theatro Vrahon in Athens, de Studio, Arenberg and Archipel in Antwerp, l’Uzinne in Brussels, and AtelierSi in Bologna, among others.
AboutShatter - AV live
Composer Dimitra Sofroniou and visual artist Vasilia Sofroniou present Shatter - AV live—their debut audiovisual live performance that merges electronic music, organ, and live visuals. The sonic material draws from Dimitra Sofroniou’s upcoming EP, featuring industrial sounds, heavy beats, and processed vocals.