"My mother asked me the other day: did you create visuals for the concert?" But why are there visualizations in the Bernardinai Garden, where you just have to look up and you will see beauty?" smiles composer, multi-instrumentalist Remis Rančys. He is absolutely sure that a concert venue can sometimes become the greatest inspiration for a music creator or performer, an endless source of ideas.
R. Rančys will take the guitar, mbira, flute, play the piano and percussion to the Bernardinai garden, where the traditional, free musical picnics of this year's anniversary - the 30th - Kristupas festival will start next week. In the green space of the capital, the music creator will organize "Green a concert". In it, as he says, he will tell with love about the things that make us green, and with irony - about those that make us grow.
R. Rančys likes colorful programs where each piece sounds different. Many of his compositions are inspired by real life events. In them, it is easy to recognize yourself, the situations that happened or various, not necessarily pleasant, characters. “For me, music is completely about the everyday and about gloomy, pots, the household that accompanies us, and about what is next to the household - our thoughts, memories, philosophies. Music is everything, both sadness and humor. When I listen to Mozart, I hear a lot of shallow, banal things, humor and games, but there is also depth, thoughts about existence. "Mozart's work covers the whole spectrum and therefore it is not boring," says the composer.
His "Green concert" was born right after the pandemic. "Even though I'm an experienced musician, when I had to play alone, without a band, it was very scary," he remembers his first performance and adds that he looks forward to every concert today. - Sometimes you "fly away" at a concert, you play and see the horizon, you feel as if you are sitting on the terrace and pondering the meaning of life. A meditative contemplative state helps to broadcast the music, to connect with the listeners. I like it when a gurgling river or chirping bird complements the sound of music at a concert. When making music, I try to be as open as possible, to feel what is happening around me, to play with the sounds of music."
"Green Concert" is like a musical diary of a city person, written in nature. Listeners will hear a story about a man who drove into the forest in a luxury car and scared the hedgehogs with loud music. "Nature punishes him - the keys - in the mud, the phone in the car, the banter starts," laughs the musician and adds that sincerity is the basis of this concert, and evil is reflected with irony and humor.
This is exactly the musician's way of drawing attention to how we treat nature. "I understand that I may not accomplish much, but I do what I can, I educate others, and I also remind myself that it is important not to deviate from the right path, to be in harmony with myself, the world and nature," says R. Rančys.
At his musical picnic, listeners will hear 5-7 instruments played live by the musician. Another 15-20 will sound on the audio. "Instruments are my passion and hobby. The most interesting thing for me is to feel the axis of the instruments, understand the sound, master the instrument and hear how its core sounds. I like to be in the sounds, play with them, create atmospheres and ideas," says the musician, who will invite the audience to a concert in Bernardinai Garden on July 11.
The series of free concerts "Kristupos picnics", which is partially financed Vilnius city municipality, next Monday, July 8, will be started by a couple on stage and in life - singer Veronika ChiChi and pianist Dmitrijus Golovanov. They are both well-known on the European jazz scene, but each can boast of outstanding projects and various achievements. The concert will feature jazz standards.
On Tuesday, July 9, a trio of talented performers - a trumpet player
Audrius Laurynas Zalcas, accordionist Arūnas Šerpytis and singer Žemyna Krukonytė-Zalcė will transport the listeners to the charming places of Paris, where cult works by Édith Piaf, Richard Galliano, Joseph Kosmos and other composers and performers will sound.
On the evening of July 10, Bernardinai garden will be flooded with the unusual sound of accordion and guitar. Duet "Perfect Nemesis" - accordionist Girmantė Bubelytė and guitarist Mantas Ralas, performing with Vida Bareikis, Mantas Ben, groups "8 rooma", "Mēnulios fāze", prepared for the listeners a program of mesmerizing music with a minimalistic expression.
The series of Kristupas picnics will be completed by Jagoda Stanicka, a pianist from Poland. Her concert is organized by the Polish Embassy in Vilnius together with the festival organizers. The concert will feature Frédéric Chopin's delicate romance and the artist's own cinematic works.
The Jubilee Kristupas Summer Festival takes place from July 1st to September 18th in Vilnius Bernardinų Park, in the courtyard of A. Mickevičius Library, St. Kazimierz, St. Catherine and St. Joseph's churches.
