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KOSTAS SMORIGINAS (bass-baritone) Cello quintet CELLO CLUB Povilas Jacunskas Domas Jakštas Arnas Kmieliauskas Evaldas Petkus Rokas Vaitkevičius

The Pažaislis Music Festival invites you to an exceptional concert where voice and the sound of cellos meet. The program is presented by the internationally acclaimed bass-baritone Kostas Smoriginas and the cello quintet "Cello Club". In the program, Baroque music works are reborn in a new form – in the arrangements of composer Dominykas Digimas, they take on a contemporary sound, and the dramaturgy of the concert is inspired by the world of ancient tragedies. The combination of one voice and five cellos creates a rich and cohesive musical space, where similar timbres merge into a hypnotic sound. In this context, early music opens up in a new way – sensitively, dramatically, and unexpectedly. Singing on international stages, K. Smoriginas embarks on a musical journey to the origins of opera in this project – to where a new relationship between voice, text, and music was born in the Baroque era. The "Cello Club" ensemble consists of prominent Lithuanian cellists, whose musical dialogue with the voice allows for a re-experience of Baroque era music. This concert is a meeting between the past and the present, where historical tradition is interpreted through a contemporary lens.