Gediminas Gelgotas

Gediminas Gelgotas (born 12 June 1986 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian composer, conductor and self-performing artist.

He was born in Vilnius, Lithuania on 12 June 1986 and grew up in a family of musicians. His mother is a choir conductor at Vilnius University, his father a member of the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater. His siblings are also musicians. (Brother Giedrius Gelgotas – flutist, sister Justė Gelgotaitė – oboist.) At the age of seven, Gelgotas was enrolled at the M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art to study piano, composition and trumpet.

In 2005, Gediminas Gelgotas began composition studies with Vytautas Barkauskas and the conductor Gintaras Rinkevičius at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater. From 2009 to 2010 he studied composition with prof. Peter Michael Hamel at the Hochschule for Music and Theater Hamburg.

In 2006, Gelgotas founded the ensemble NI&Co (New Ideas Chamber Orchestra) for the purpose of realizing his own musical and conceptual ideas. NI&Co is a string ensemble that he continues to lead today. Gediminas Gelgotas’ works are performed in concert halls in Latvia, Russia, Ukraina, Germany, Great Britain. The compositions by Gediminas Gelgotas appeal to a young audience and are always a Gesamtkunstwerk. Hence, Gediminas Gelgotas is regarded as the "shooting star".

Gelgotas‘ work Never Ignore the Cosmic Ocean was premiered in the orchestral version in Berlin with the Baltic Youth Philharmonic conducted by Kristian Järvi at the Young Euro Classic Festival on August 11, 2012. The minimalist composition reflects his consistent way of personally dealing with intellectual worlds and creative processes. "The new composition by the Lithuanian composer Gediminas Gelgotas caused a sensation!"

At Usedom’s Music Festival, Gediminas Gelgotas and his NI&Co had a two-hour performance in September 2012. On 2010 Gelgotas signed with the music publishing company Peermusic Classical New York – Hamburg.

• Piece for two flutes Anonymous Calls (December 2003)
• Piece for trumpet & piano Three Quarters (April 2004)
• Piece for mixed choir Sodauto (January 2005)
• String Quartet with oboe. Allegro - Largo - Presto - Andante (November 2005)
• The song for soprano & piano Letters of the Night (November 2005)
• Piano trio (for violin, violoncello & piano) (April 2006)
• Piece for string orchestra Ex Uno (January 2007)
• Piece for two solo violins, solo viola, voice and string orchestra Musicality of Life (September 2007)
• The song for voice & piano or for voice solo To the Skies (January 2008)
• Piece for five strings (4 violins and cello), voice and female choir Am I Exist (March 2008)
• Septet for string Quartet, flute, oboe and clarinet (May 2008)
• Piece for eight strings (5 vln, 2 vla, vc) and voice Body Language (August 2008)
• Piece for voice solo (violin solo, cello solo, viola solo, trumpet solo, flute solo) To The Skies (January 2008)
• Piece for eight strings An End Is A Beginning (May 2009)
• Piece for six (or seven) strings Echoes For A Thousand Years (October 2009)
• Piece for seven strings What's Unrobotizable (April 2010)
• Piece for six strings, or for symphony orchestra X 21,3 (December 2010)
• Piece for symphony orchestra or for strings and piano Never Ignore the Cosmic Ocean (2011-2012)