In autumn 2025, the festival Vilnius Winds will welcome residents and visitors of Vilnius for the fourth time, bringing together Lithuanian and international wind music fans and talented performers. This year’s festival programme features a carefully curated selection of multi-genre wind music: from classical to jazz paraphrases and from traditional to contemporary music. Orchestral performances, chamber ensemble concerts, forums and discussions with festival performers and composers await our audience.
A special event at the festival will be the opening concert dedicated to French composer Olivier Messiaen, a classic of modern music. His magnificent work for wind orchestra and percussion, ‘Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum’ (And I Wait for the Resurrection of the Dead), will be performed for the first time in Lithuania.
The second concert of the festival is dedicated to chamber music and the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. The concert will feature Čiurlionis’ arrangements supplemented with new contexts from his contemporaries.
In the subsequent concert, the audience will have a unique opportunity to hear orchestral compositions by one of today’s world preeminent composers of wind music, Frank Ticheli (USA), conducted by the composer himself. Ticheli’s music has won numerous prestigious awards and is considered to be one of the treasures of wind music.
The festival will be crowned by the wind ensemble, I Solisti della Scala. The ensemble consists of musicians from the orchestra of the famous La Scala opera theatre (Italy), who will present a programme showcasing their artistic and technical expertise.
Programme: https://www.lspo.lt/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/2025_VilniusWinds_A5_EN_Bukletas-1.pdf