Feliksas Romualdas Bajoras

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Feliksas Romualdas Bajoras (born October 7, 1934 in Alytus ) is a Lithuanian composer.

Bajoras studied in Kaunas with Vincas Bacevičius . He continued his education at the Lithuanian State Conservatory with Alexander Livont (violin, diploma 1957) and Julius Juzeliūnas (composition, diploma 1963). Since 1957 he has been a violinist in the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. In 1966 he became the musical director of the youth theater in Vilnius. Bajoras lived in the USA from 1984 to 1988. He then taught at the Lithuanian Academy of Music .

Before turning to classical music, Bajoras composed popular light music in the late 1950s. In 1968 he won second prize at the international Alfred Casella composition competition in Naples with variations for string quartet and double bass. In 1989 he was awarded the Balys Dvarionas Prize for his Symphony Diptych . In 1998 he received the Lithuanian State Prize for Art, in 2001 the National Prize and in 2004 the Prize of the Lithuanian Composers Association.

In addition to several symphonies, Bajoras a. a. the opera Dievo avinelis ( Little Sheep of God, based on a libretto by Rimantas Šavelis , 1991), oratorios, cantatas, songs, chamber music as well as theater and film music.

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