Prowadzenie:

prof. Raimondas Sviackevičius
Litewska Akademia Muzyki i Teatru (Pałac Centralny) (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre)

harmonogram:

5.05 / Sala Senatu w bud. czerwonym aMuz

  • 14:00-17:00 – lekcje mistrzowskie
  • 17:00-17:15 – przerwa
  • 17:15-20:15 – lekcje mistrzowskie

6.05 / Sala 401 w bud. czerwonym aMuz

  • 9:00-12:00 – lekcje mistrzowskie

Koordynacja:

prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Rosińska
dr hab. Paweł Zagańczyk

Organizator:

Katedra Organów, Klawesynu, Akordeonu, Gitary i Harfy

 

wydarzenie w ramach programu Erasmus+

 


fot. Tomas Terekas

 

RAIMONDAS SVIACKEVIČIUS is a musician of wide horizons, intellectually and with determination upgrading the status of his instrument, with his programming daringly breaking the limits of repertoire and genres, and incessantly raising his professional standard.
Sviackevičius graduated with MA from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in 1999 (with Assoc. Prof. Zita Abromavičiūtė). 1998–1999 he studied at the Academy of Music in Lodz (Poland), with the accordionist and composer, Prof. Bogdan Dowlasz. 1999–2000 he attended the Sibelius Music Academy in Helsinki (Finland), with Prof. Matti Rantanen. 1999–2001 he pursued post-graduate studies at the Royal conservatoire in the Hague (Holland), with the world famous Prof. Friedrich Lips (Russia) and Johan De With (Holland).
Raimondas Sviackevičius is laureate of many national and international competitions. As a soloist he has performed with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Kaunas Symphony Orchestra, St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra and Klaipėda Chamber Orchestra. He has given recitals, appeared in original programs at the festivals Gaida, Sugrįžimai, St. Christopher Summer Festival, Druskomanija, Jauna muzika, Druskininkų vasara su Čiurlioniu, Muzikos ruduo, Permainu muzika, Is arti, Klangspuren (Austria), Venice Bienalle (Italy), Utraschall (Germany), Vale of Glamorgan (United Kingdom), Turning sounds (Poland), Harbin festival (China), Usedom Music Festival (Germany) as well as W. Lutoslawski Modern Art Forum in Lublin, Musica Moderna in Lodz (Poland) and Bayan i Bayanisty in Moscow (Russia), accordion festivals in Sanok, Czestochowa, Liublin, Bielsko-Biala (Poland), Chelyabinsk, Ufa (Russia), among others.
Performing actively as a soloist he also plays chamber music and participates in various formations and unconventional groups playing experimental and avant-garde music as well as jazz. In 2004, he joined the contemporary music ensemble Gaida, and since 2009 has been actively involved in the Lithuanian Ensemble Network.
Sviackevičius regularly appears (in the past as a participant, now as a pedagogue) in international master classes, seminars and festivals. He had masterclasses at various European Academies including Copenhagen Royal Academy, London Royal Academy, Rome Santa Cecilia Conservatory, Strasbourg academy, Linz Anton Bruckner University, Tallinn, Kragujevac, Gdansk, Warsaw, Pula, Vicenza, Katowice, Czestochowa Academies of music and Harbin University in China. He has held Masterclasses at International Campus Giardini Naxos in Sicily, Santa Severina South Italy, Shenzhen China and other places. He has performed with great success in Germany, Italy, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Denmark, Poland, Holland, Sweden, Austria, the USA and Russia, and has juried for the following national and international competitions: Klingenthal competition (Germany), Moscow Bayan & Bayanists competition (Russia), Coupe Mondiale, A. Krzanowski International Competition, Sanok competition, Przemysl competition (Poland), Premio Citta di Castelfidardo, Val Tidone Music Competitions, International Stefano Bizzarri Accordion Prize, Contemporaneamente Fisarmonica in Rome, San Vincenzo La Costa (Italy), Alcobaca (Portugal) and many more.
Since 2000, Sviackevičius has been on a faculty at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, currently works as Professor. Many of his students are winners of various international competitions, appear in various festivals, and are actively involved in concert life where they are recognized as contemporary music adepts. In 2014 by R.Sviackevicius initiative New independent accordion department was established at LMTA. Since 2014 he is Head of Accordion department at the Lithuanian academy of music and theater. Academic life during last decades has big international activity, almost all leading accordion professors had Masterclasses with students of LMTA, teachers and students regularly participate in different exchange programs and projects.
Sviackevičius closely collaborates with Lithuanian composers, commissioning and performing new works for accordion. In 2004, he released his first solo CD entitled A Farewell to arms after Nomeda Valančiūtė’s work written for him. In 2006, he premiered the first Lithuanian Concerto for accordion and chamber orchestra Breakthrough by Žibuoklė Martinaitytė, which was dedicated to him. In 2007, he gave first performance of Promise, the first Lithuanian work for accordion and symphony orchestra by world renowned composer Feliksas Bajoras, at the Gaida Contemporary Music Festival. New Concerto for accordion and chamber orchestra AKO-07 by Jurgis Juozapaitis dedicated to Sviackevičius was premiered at Muzikos Ruduo festival in autumn 2007, and in 2009, Pažaislis Festival hosted a premiere of Elegy for Those Who Left Their Homeland for accordion and string orchestra by Giedrius Kuprevičius. In 2010 composer Arvydas Malcys Concerto for accordion and chamber orchestra dedicated to R. Sviackevicius was premiered in Vilnius. In 2010 he released CD “Accorpus simulacrum”. He prepared and premiered different solo and chamber works by Lithuanian composers (O.Balakauskas, B.Kutavičius, R.Motiekaitis, Ž.Martinaitytė, V.Beinarienė, J.Tamulionis, F.Bajoras, R.Merkelys, V.Baltakas, V.Germanavičius, D.Čemerytė, A.Malcys etc.) His recorded works appears at more than 15 different CD.
Recently, beside his performing career Raimondas Sviackevičius has been actively involved in organization of various accordion events, and since 2008, he has been an artistic director of International Accordion Festivals in Vilnius and Palanga. International accordion festival in Vilnius is well known and is rated as high standard festival and is one of the most important accordion events in Europe. Since 2011 he is heading International accordion competitions in Vilnius as artistic director which are successfully organized every two years. International accordion competition in Vilnius has great reputation among participants and has high quality standards of renowned Jury members, requirements and judging system.
From 2010 Raimondas Sviackevicius is the President of Lithuanian accordionists association (established in 1986). Association as biggest and oldest accordion organization in Lithuania in general is responsible for main international as well as national accordion events, collaborations between other associations, methodical, pedagogic and professional exchange in all levels and degrees from music schools to academies.