TWENTY FINGERS DUO

TWENTY FINGERS DUO

Date: 14 11 2024

Time: doors 7pm

Location: Stereo

Get ready for a mind-blowing performance by one the most prominent Lithuanian new music collectives Twenty Fingers Duo at Stereo! This dynamic duo is set to rock the stage with electro-acoustic and audio-visual projects. Music composed by Scottish and Lithuanian composers, with three world premieres created especially for this night!

Composers: NANCY JOHNSTONE, JESS BLINKHORN, FLYNN B. FRASER, RŪTA VITKAUSKAITĖ, ALBERTAS NAVICKAS, ARTŪRAS BUMŠTEINAS, ANDRIUS MASLEKOVAS, DOMINYKAS DIGIMAS, PIOTR BEDNARCZYK

Don't miss out on the ensemble's rare visit to Scotland and experience their electrifying energy and engulfing flow. Grab your friends and come on down to Stereo for an evening of new sounds!

Tickets: pay what you can £10 £5 £0 or donation, cash on the door or card via eventbrite.

Event funded by Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania to the United Kingdom, Lithuanian Composers' Union's Music Fund

About TWENY FINGERS DUO

The contemporary music ensemble Twenty Fingers Duo was founded in Vilnius in 2016, by sister and brother violinist Lora Kmieliauskaitė and cellist Arnas Kmieliauskas.

Twenty Fingers Duo actively participate in and initiate contemporary art projects, with a strong focus on collaboration with artists from other fields. The main task of the ensemble's musical activity is to foster and promote Lithuanian music, while the gamut of their activities ranges from standard concert appearances and interdisciplinary performances to collaborations in contemporary opera, theatre, dance, and film productions.

The music they perform emerges at the intersection of extended playing techniques and graphic scores. In its live performances, Twenty Fingers Duo places great emphasis on the stage setup and the mingling between light and darkness. In 2020, they released their debut album Performa. In the recent years, they have released two more albums – Dualitas and Two Sides: West/East – and an interdisciplinary stage work Orpheus, Eurydice, which was nominated in four categories of the Performing Arts Awards ‘Golden Crosses’ and won the award for the best interdisciplinary work of the year in the Lithuanian Composers' Competition (both in 2023). In 2024, the inaugural international residency In Between Silence, organized in collaboration with the UK ensemble GBSR Duo, took place, reflecting the Twenty Fingers Duo’s dedication to nurturing collaboration. Their work is centered around fostering meaningful partnerships between composers and performers, with this residency being one of the ways they bring that vision to life.

Host or Publisher Ruta Vitkauskaite