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"Dear, Dear" A love story of a piano and synthesizers
An excerpt from the conversation between Agnė and Marta:
M: Maybe let’s think in the direction we’ve talked about – our new program as a map of our experiences and inspirations. I was thinking about using the pieces I’ve played or listened to a hundred times as the basis for recomposition. It’s peculiar to see just how some of my professional interests have become my collections of experiences and pieces that I constantly return to, the collection that makes me a musician. A: Good morning, dear friend. I woke up today with that idea in my head – what if we make our new program a homage or dedication to our inspirations and mentors? The titles of our pieces, then, could be Agnès for Ryuichi, Marta for Gerard, Agnès for John, and so on. And we would conclude with Marta for Agnès and Agnès for Marta.
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Marta Finkelštein (LT)
Marta Finkelštein is a pianist and music curator living in Vilnius with her husband, daughter, and a dog. She combines theoretical and practical interests in the research of curatorial potential in music with her performing activity. Recently she graduated from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland with a degree in music curating, while in the summer of 2023 she earned her PhD in arts at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Her thesis was Curating Music in Contemporaneity: Contexts, the Lithuanian Scene, and the Synaesthesis Ensemble.
In recent years, her main focus has been Syanaesthesis, the ensemble dedicated to new music. She curated sound projects carried out in collaboration with instrumentalists, composers, and artists representing diverse fields. Under her leadership, the ensemble received several national and international awards, including the Young Creator Prize, the St. Christopher trophy for achievements in contemporary music, and the Ernst von Siemens Ensemble Prize.
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Agnė Matulevičiūtė (LT)
Agnė Matulevičiūtė is a sound artist and composer, with a particular focus on music for theatre and film. Media and interdisciplinary art contexts, musical performances, and experiments based on sonic expression also fall into her area of interest. Currently she is a PhD student at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, her research focused on the development of the concept of after-sound in contemporary music. Since 2014, she has been an active participant of group exhibitions, art and contemporary music festivals, and artist residencies in Lithuania and abroad. For her film soundtracks, she won the top national award. She wrote music for more than thirty productions of the leading Lithuanian theatres and was nominated twice for a national prize. She has presented her music all around Lithuania and also in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Latvia, Estonia, and Pakistan.
Agnė is a keen creative partner for artists from different fields. Her radio play Lino kančia (The Suffering of the Linen) was named best radio show in 2021. She is the artistic director of Music in Space, the music festival, and the manager of the club program for Sirenos, the international theatre festival. She is also active in the field of electronic music, performing live under the stage name Agnès M. For her compositions, she often uses sounds of modular and analogue synthesizers from her 1980s collection. In 2019 she joined the Lithuanian Composers’ Union.
