Liucilė U. Vilimaitė
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Meredith Monk's "Indra's Net" premiere at Holland Festival 2023
In June 2023 Liucilė took part in a world premiere of a living music legend Meredith Monk and performed her multidisciplinary work "Indra's Net" alongside the alumni of the Ensemble Academy of The Royal Conservatoire of the Hague. The performances were held in Gashouder in Amsterdam and were part of 76th Holland Festival — one of the oldest and largest festivals in the Netherlands.
More info: https://www.hollandfestival.nl/en/indra-s-net
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/arts/music/meredith-monk-80-indras-net.html
Debussy "Danses" and a Lithuanian premiere of "Funky Business" in Klaipėda Concert Hall
An extrodinary concert performance "Arfos fiesta" took place in Klaipėda Concert Hall on January 27, 2023. In the concert Liucilė performed the famous C. Debussy's "Danses Sacrée et Profane" with Klaipėda Chamber Orchestra (artistic leader M. Bačkus), as well as gave the Lithuanian premiere of "Funky Business" (2021) for 6 harps and performed it together with Lithuanian harpists Joana Daunytė, Aistė Baliunytė-Dailidienė, Gabrielė Ašmontaitė-Bačkuvienė, Giedra Julija Tutkutė and Žiedė Bružaitė.
More info: https://www.7md.lt/muzika/2023-02-03/Arfu-fiesta-Klaipedoje
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Participation in Windows of Opportunity residency
In October 2022 Liucilė was participating in "Windows of Opportunity" residency week in Akoesticum, a training centre for music, dance and theatre in Ede, the Netherlands. During the residency she was working on the creation of a new interdisciplinary performance called "Emerging dreams" which combines modern harp music, video art and texts written and recorded by the artist herself.
More information: https://www.windowsofopportunity.nl/
Debut in World Harp Congress 2022
On July 23-28 in 2022, 14th World Harp Congress took place in Cardiff, Wales where Liucile has presented 2 of her compositions: "Žalčiai" (2018) which was performed by herself with the "Congress Chamber Orchestra" conducted by Sylvain Blassel, and "Trilogija" (2021) performed by the Harp Sirens!
More information: https://www.whc2022.wales/