Dance mosaic

Karolina Beinarytė (violin) and Daiva Stulgytė (piano)

Violinist Karolina Beinarytė-Palekauskienė and pianist Daiva Stulgytė-Povilaitienė invite you to a chamber music evening, "Dance Mosaic," where listeners will embark on a musical journey through different countries, eras, and dance traditions.

The program brings together composers from various periods – from Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Ástor Piazzolla. The performance will feature elegant minuets and waltzes, Slavic dance rhythms, the dramatic "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Saëns, the melancholic "Valse Triste" by Jean Sibelius, works by Balys Dvarionas and Vytautas Klova, and the passionate world of Piazzolla's tango.

Each piece reveals a different face of dance – from the subtle refinement of court halls to folk traditions, and from romantic dreaminess to passionate and temperamental music. This is an evening where dance becomes not just movement, but also emotion, storytelling, and a reflection of the human condition.

Karolina Beinarytė-Palekauskienė has been the first violinist of the Kaunas String Quartet since 2003 and performs actively in Lithuania and abroad. Together with the quartet, she has given hundreds of concerts in Europe and South America, participated in festivals, recorded CDs, and received significant Lithuanian cultural awards.

Daiva Stulgytė-Povilaitienė is a long-time concertmaster-assistant at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, head of the Chamber Ensemble Department at the Kaunas Juozas Naujalis Music Gymnasium, and an active chamber music performer. Her creative work includes concerts in Lithuania and abroad, as well as collaborations with renowned soloists, chamber ensembles, and choirs.

The musical partnership between these two performers was born from their shared experience in chamber music and their love for melody. "Dance Mosaic" will offer listeners a colorful, elegant, and emotional program that blends the musical traditions, dance rhythms, and timeless melodies of various nations.

After the concert, listeners are invited to stay for a screening of the media opera "ČIURLIONIS: I SEE MUSIC," which extends the evening's theme and opens up a world where sound becomes color and color becomes music.