Modestas Pitrėnas

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Modestas Pitrėnas (born September 15, 1974 in Vilnius ) is a Lithuanian musician, choir and orchestra conductor .

Life

After 9 classes at the 59th Middle School in Pašilaičiai , Pitrėnas completed choral conducting with distinction from 1989 to 1993 at the Juozas Tallat Kelpša Music School with G. Čiurilaitė and studied choral conducting at the Lietuvos muzikos akademija (LMA) with Lionginas Abarius from 1993 to 1994 . From 1995 to 1996 he completed his bachelor’s degree (choir and opera conducting) with distinction at the Salzburg Mozarteum ( Walter Hagen-Groll and Karl Kamper ) and from 1997 to 1998 the master’s degree in choral conducting at the LMA with Abarius. From 1997 he studied symphony and opera conducting with Juozas Domarkas .

From 2000 to 2004, Pitrėnas taught at the Vilnius Seminary and was director of the seminarians' choir. In 2001 he became art director and conductor of the symphony orchestra at the Balys Dvarionas School of Music. Since 2003 he has been teaching conducting at the Lietuvos muzikos ir teatro akademija as a lecturer .

From 2006 to 2011 he was chief conductor of the Kaunas Symphony Orchestra and from 2009 to 2014 chief conductor of the Latvian National Opera in Riga. Since 2015 he has been chief conductor and artistic director of the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra in Vilnius. Since 2018 he has also been chief conductor at the Theater St. Gallen .

He had concert tours in the USA, Israel, Japan and China. In the 2010/11 season he made his debut with Mozart's Magic Flute at the Cologne Opera and directed the revival of Puccini's Ilertrico at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein . He conducted Werther , Tosca and Ilertrico in Riga and L'elisir d'amore and Die Walküre in Vilnius. He directed the performances of Salome and La Wally at the St. Gallen Theater and Igor Stravinsky's Le rossignol at the Warsaw National Opera .

Awards

  • Lithuanian National Culture and Art Prize

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Boleslovas Zubrickas. Pasaulio lietuvių chorvedžiai: enciklopedinis žinynas. Vilnius, 1999 (Lithuanian)
  2. ↑ Modestas Pitrėnas - Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the LNSO at: filharmonija.lt (English)
  3. ↑ Modestas Pitrenas on: theatersg.ch
  4. ↑ Life ( Memento from March 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Pitrėnas, Modestas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian musician, choir and orchestra conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 15th September 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilnius