“How to Keep Music in the Soul”

We invite you to welcome autumn with a heart full of music!

On September 6, Paliesius Manor will host a deeply moving concert, “How to Keep Music in the Soul.” The charming singer Judita Leitaitė, together with violinist Paulina Daukšytė-Šereckienė, cellist Marius Dominykas Sakavičius, and pianist Jurijus Suchanovas, will gift the audience familiar and heartwarming melodies. This is music that awakens memories, brings a smile to the face, and inspires you to sing on your journey home. The first half of the concert features classical works, while the second half explores Lithuanian melodies and recognizable film scores.

Judita Leitaitė is known to listeners and admirers as an enchanting and active chamber music performer, a laureate of international competitions, and an LTMA associate professor. Yet her musical achievements have been recognized by more than just her audiences. She has been awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great for her merits to Lithuanian culture; in 2005, she received the Government Culture and Art Prize; in 2007, she became a laureate of the “Golden Disc,” and she has also been honored with the medal “For Merits to Vilnius and the Nation” and the Ministry of Culture award “Carry Your Light and Believe.”

Violinist Paulina Daukšytė-Šereckienė enrolled in the Music Academy of Vytautas Magnus University in 2012 (class of Prof. R. Butvila) and studied in the class of Assoc. Prof. R. Bliškevičius. At the age of seven, she began performing with her mother, singer J. Leitaitė. She has played in a youth orchestra, toured with an orchestra conducted by S. Sondeckis in Salzburg (Austria) and St. Petersburg (Russia), and performed across Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Russia, and the USA. She has gathered rich experience playing in churches, schools, and small towns. She plays in the Kaunas music ensemble “Ainiai” and participates in festivals. Her repertoire is graced not only by the classical and contemporary music of foreign composers but also by Lithuanian creators such as J. Gruodis, B. Dvarionas, J. Pakalnis, B. Kutavičius, and A. Šenderovas.

Cellist Marius Dominykas Sakavičius is a laureate of several national and international competitions. For instance, in 2019, he won first prize at the XI International Alexander Glazunov Competition in Paris as a soloist, and first prize at the “Art of Sound” international competition as a member of the piano trio “Trio Bohemiae.” He has performed not only in Lithuania but also in Latvia, Estonia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Denmark, Israel, Great Britain, and other countries. He actively participates in various contemporary art projects.

Jurijus Suchanovas is a pianist, composer, and accompanist. He works as an accompanist at the Vilnius Algirdas Music School in Jolanta Stumbrienė’s singing class and Audra Dainienė’s violin class, as well as at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in Assoc. Prof. Judita Leitaitė’s singing class.