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LA (2014) was inspired by 1991 January 13th events nearby Vilnius TV Tower when USSR troops attacked Lithuania independency activists, killing 14 people and wounding around 1000 others. Loreta Asanavičiūtė was one of victims and only female of them. Visual source of inspiration for this work was series of paintings by Gerdenic Grickevičius “Resistance Women”.
The title refers to the initials of Loreta Asanavičiūtė. This letter combination is symbolically reflected by repeated and continued sound A (la). The piece is like a choral variation in memoriam Loreta Asanavičiūtė.


Performed by:
Jūratė Landsbergyte (organ)

Recored in Church of St. Casimir, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Composers biography

Mykolas Natalevičius (b. 1985) is a young Lithuanian composer active in various fields of music, from the acoustic instrumental music to the experimental electronics. His work involves composing, playing piano, singing and conducting. According to composer, music was not his initial field of creativity. He began his creative path in the fine arts, successfully participating in various art exhibitions and competitions, and started his music studies at the age of sixteen. He studied composition (with Prof. Vytautas Barkauskas and Ričardas Kabelis) at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, graduating in 2011. He also attended singing (Deividas Staponkus and Algirdas Janutas) and symphonic conducting (Gintaras Rinkevičius) lessons. In 2010 Mykolas Natalevičius studied at the Danish Institute of Electronic Music with Henrik Munch, also attended singing class at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus with Ingrid Haking Raby. In 2011, his Kampana for symphony orchestra won the Debut Prize at the annual Best Works of the Year awards of the Lithuanian Composers' Union. In 2012 he was awarded the Young Artist Prize by the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture.

Mykolas is interested in the possibilities of synthesis of music and other arts. He is a member of the artist group Operomanija. In 2008 the composer was awarded (together with his fellow composers from the New Opera Action) the prize for the best stage work at the annual Lithuanian Composers’ Union competition. He also writes music for drama performances (in 2008, at the 9th International University Theatre Forum Traces of Generation, he received the award for music for the drama performance Return) and films (the work of video artist Rimas Sakalauskas and Mykolas Natalevičius Synchronisation was awarded in seven international competitions and was presented in fourty various festivals and exhibitions around the world).

Artwork by Mykolas Natalevicius.

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