Petras Vyšniauskas
Petras Vyšniauskas (born June 11, 1957 in Plungė ) is a Lithuanian multi-instrumentalist (mainly soprano saxophone ) of Modern Creative Jazz and a professor as a music teacher at the Lithuanian Music and Theater Academy in Vilnius .
Life
Vysniauskas has worked with musicians such as Steve Lacy , Han Bennink , Jon Christensen , Tomasz Stańko , Kent Carter , Tomas Kutavičius , Elliott Sharp , Paul Jeffrey , the Rova Saxophone Quartet , Charlie Mariano , Karl Berger , Bobo Stenson , Reiner Winterschladen , Hilliard Greene , Vijay Iyer , Robert Dick , John Lindberg , Eric Vloeimans , Mark Tokar and others together. In 1992 he appeared with his quartet on the Eurovision television program European Jazz Night . Together with Klaus Kugel , he recorded the score for the German movie Leni . Both have been members of Vyacheslav Ganelin's Ganelin Trio Priority since 1999 . In 1999 he appeared in the Theo Jörgensmann Sextet in Wuppertal ( Fellowship ).
He also leads the Poksis quartet with the Lithuanian guitarist Juozas Milasius, the Russian double bass player Vladimir Volkov and the drummer Klaus Kugel. Vysniauskas currently plays in the Vilnius Power Trio with Juozas Milasius and drummer Dalius Naujokaitis.
The musician who lives in Vilnius combines the music of his Lithuanian homeland with modern sounds and, according to the Baltic Rundschau, is one of the musicians who set important accents in European jazz. Critic Bert Noglik wrote of Petras Vysniauskas: “His music breathes something of the austere beauty of the Lithuanian landscape and the passion of many of his countrymen. It was the music of Petras Vysniauskas that I remembered because of its clear, individual conception. ”According to Vysniauskas,“ in the Lithuanian folk songs, he hears echoes of the music of John Coltrane ; I try to combine all of this with the free expression of jazz today. "
From 1988 to 2003 he was senior assistant, from 2003 lecturer and now professor at the Lithuanian Music and Theater Academy. Kęstutis Vaiginis is one of his students .
His son is the trumpeter Dominykas Vysniauskas and his daughter the singer Marija Vysniauskaite.
Honourings and prices
In the 1980s he was named "Musician of the Year" several times in what was then the USSR . Vysniauskas won the Art Prize of the Government of Lithuania in 1999 . As a representative of the Lithuanian jazz musicians, he was invited by the city of Chicago to the millennium celebration in 2000 .
Discography (selection)
- Viennese Concert ( Leo Records , 1989)
- Lithuania (ITM, 1990) with Arkadij Gotesman
- Vysniauskas- Baumann - Siron : Nuit Balte (1994)
- Fellowship (1999) with Theo Jörgensmann, Charlie Mariano, Karl Berger, Kent Carter and Klaus Kugel
- Petras Vysniauskas Quartet Light In The Dark (2003)
- Baltic Trio Live at Jazz Welten Dresden 2005 (2005) with Vladimir Volkov and Klaus Kugel
- Ganelin Trio Priority Visions (2007) with Vyacheslav Ganelin and Klaus Kugel
Honor
- 2005: Honorary citizen of the district of Plungė
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ life
- ↑ Honorary Citizen of Plungė
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vyšniauskas, Petras |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian multi-instrumentalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plungė |