Gediminas Gelgotas

Gediminas Gelgotas
Birth name Gediminas Gelgotas
Born (1986-06-12) June 12, 1986
Vilnius, Lithuania
Genres Contemporary classical music, minimal music
Occupation(s) Composer, conductor
Instruments Piano, trumpet
Years active 2004–present
Website www.niko.lt

Gediminas Gelgotas (born 12 June 1986 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian composer, conductor and self-performing artist.

Early life

He was born in Vilnius, Lithuania on 12 June 1986 and grew up in a family of musicians. His mother is a choir conductor at Vilnius University, his father a member of the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater. His siblings are also musicians. (Brother Giedrius Gelgotas – flutist, sister Justė Gelgotaitė – oboist.) At the age of seven, Gelgotas was enrolled at the M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art to study piano, composition and trumpet.

Career

In 2005, Gediminas Gelgotas began composition studies with Vytautas Barkauskas and the conductor Gintaras Rinkevičius at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater. From 2009 to 2010 he studied composition with prof. Peter Michael Hamel at the Hochschule for Music and Theater Hamburg.

In 2006, Gelgotas founded the ensemble NI&Co (New Ideas Chamber Orchestra) for the purpose of realizing his own musical and conceptual ideas. NI&Co is a string ensemble that he continues to lead today. Gediminas Gelgotas’ works are performed in concert halls in Latvia, Russia, Ukraina, Germany, Great Britain. The compositions by Gediminas Gelgotas appeal to a young audience and are always a Gesamtkunstwerk. Hence, Gediminas Gelgotas is regarded as the "shooting star".

Gelgotas‘ work Never Ignore the Cosmic Ocean was premiered in the orchestral version in Berlin with the Baltic Youth Philharmonic conducted by Kristian Järvi at the Young Euro Classic Festival on August 11, 2012. The minimalist composition reflects his consistent way of personally dealing with intellectual worlds and creative processes. "The new composition by the Lithuanian composer Gediminas Gelgotas caused a sensation!"[1]

At Usedom’s Music Festival, Gediminas Gelgotas and his NI&Co had a two-hour performance in September 2012. On 2010 Gelgotas signed with the music publishing company Peermusic Classical New York – Hamburg.

Composed works

References

  1. ↑ Neue Musikzeitung, August 2012.

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