“Premiere of a Work by Digimas, Masterpieces by Martinů and Bruckner” | LNSO, “DUO ANDERSSON” AND MODESTAS PITRĖNAS
2026-11-28 19:00
The Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society
This evening, the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra and its Artistic Director and Chief Conductor Modestas Pitrėnas will be joined by Duo Andersson – two prominent musicians of Lithuania’s younger generation, violinist Julija Andersson and pianist Paulius Andersson, who have been performing together as a duo since 2021.
Duo Andersson are First Prize winners of the International Chamber Music Competition Pinerolo (Italy, 2025), where they also received the Special Prize for the best performance of a work by Johannes Brahms. Dedicated to promoting Lithuanian music, the duo seeks to introduce rarely performed works and conceptually conceived programmes to audiences abroad. Julija Andersson is a member of the NIKO ensemble and has performed at venues including Carnegie Hall in New York, Tonhalle Zürich and Gewandhaus Leipzig. Coming from a distinguished family of pianists, Paulius Andersson is a laureate of more than twenty international piano competitions.
According to the performers, Bohuslav Martinů’s Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra will be performed in Lithuania for the first time. Composed in 1953, this double concerto combines elements of Neo-Romanticism and Neoclassicism.
The concert will also feature the world premiere of Dominykas Digimas’ After Solarisation for violin, piano and symphony orchestra, a new work by one of the youngest-generation Lithuanian composers. Digimas is actively involved in projects spanning a variety of genres and interdisciplinary art forms, as well as contemporary music festivals in Lithuania and abroad. He composes music for theatre productions and is one of the founders of the contemporary music ensemble Synaesthesis.
Austrian composer Anton Bruckner achieved broad recognition only after the performance of his Seventh Symphony in 1884, when he was already sixty years old. Until then, orchestras and conductors had often rejected his works as “unplayable”. The triumph of the Seventh Symphony rescued his earlier symphonies from obscurity and eventually brought the composer belated international fame.
Among these earlier works is Symphony No. 3 in D minor, Op. 94, dedicated to Richard Wagner. According to German conductor and musicologist Rudolf Kloiber, the Third Symphony marks the beginning of Bruckner’s sequence of masterpieces, in which his creative imagination is combined with an exceptional command of large-scale musical structure. The work is also known as the symphony Bruckner revised more often than any other: at least six versions exist, three of which are widely performed today.
This concert is a joint project with the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society.