Kęstutis Vaiginis Trio

An international trio from Lithuania, Finland, and Poland will perform energy-filled original compositions by Kęstutis Vaiginis!

European jazz musicians - Kęstutis Vaiginis (saxophone, compositions), Joonas Haavisto (Finland, piano), and Michał Barański (Poland, double bass) - will perform original compositions by Kęstutis Vaiginis at the Muzikos magijos klubas!

World-class jazz performers from different countries will captivate with their virtuosity, radiating vitality, enchanting musical compositions, and a distinctive style of playing.

Kęstutis Vaiginis is one of the most productive jazz performers in Lithuania. An ambitious saxophonist who plays with top-class US jazz musicians such as Alex Sipiagin, Jonathan Blake, Dave Kikoski, Boris Kozlov, Donald Edwards, David Berkman, and others, he is the inspiration and leader of numerous international projects. As a bandleader and guest artist, he has performed with various ensembles at the North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam, London, Ottawa, Cape Town, Tokyo, Istanbul, Hong Kong, and other prestigious jazz festivals, and has toured across Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa. Every year in Lithuania, he organizes concert tours with guest artists from the United States and the most prominent European jazz musicians. Kęstutis Vaiginis was awarded the European Culture Foundation "Europamusicale" prize, which is given to one European musician once a year. K. Vaiginis became the first laureate of the European Culture Foundation "Europamusicale" music award (2013).

Michał Barański is a Polish jazz double bassist. Barański is the Grand Prix winner of the 40th "Jazz nad Odrą" festival, and he also won the main "Swinging Raven" prize at the 3rd Hot Jazz Spring festival in Częstochowa and the "Jazz Angel" award at the Bielska Zadymka festival in 2005. Together with the group Triology, he took 4th place at the international jazz group competition "Jazz Hoeilaart" in Belgium. He is a two-time winner of the "Fryderyk" award (the Polish "Grammy") for the albums Assymetry (Zbigniew Namysłowski) and Umiera piękno (Aga Zaryan). In 2015, he was nominated for a "Fryderyk" award in the Jazz Artist of the Year category. Throughout his career, Barański has collaborated with many famous artists, including Bennie Maupin, Dayna Stephens, Dan Tepfer, Nigel Kennedy, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Tomasz Stańko, Michał Urbaniak, David Dorůžka, Vladislav Sendecki, Derrick McKenzie, Bernard Maseli, Piotr Wojtasik, Adam Bałdych, and Aga Zaryan. He also recorded the album Early Reflections with jazz legend Bennie Maupin (known for his work with Miles Davis on the album Bitches Brew and Herbie Hancock's Headhunters). This album took second place in the "JazzTimes" critics' poll in the Best Album of 2008 category.