Jauna Muzika | Conductor

Lithuanian version

Vilnius Municipal Choir
JAUNA MUZIKA

Conductor

The conductor, composer and teacher Vaclovas Augustinas (b. 1959), graduated from the Department of Choir Conducting (1981) and the Department of Composition (1992) of the Lithuanian Academy of Music. From 1980 to 1992, he worked at the Ąžuoliukas Music School, and since 1992 has been artistic director of the Jauna Muzika choir.

Augustinas is a member of the Lithuanian Composers Union, the Lithuanian Choral Union, and the American Association of Choir Conductors.

In 1993, he participated as a guest conductor in the Swedish National Choral Conductors Convention in Vaxjo.
In 1996, he gave a workshop on choral conducting at the 16th Jornadas Coralistas Aragonesas festival in Spain.
In 1998, he was Chief Conductor of the World Lithuanian Song Festival.
In 1999, he delivered a series of lectures and gave a workshop at the World Symposium on Choral Music in Rotterdam, Holland.
In 2000, he conducted the joint choir of the Nordic and Baltic Countries Choral Assembly.
In 2002, he guest conducted the Netherlands Radio Choir.
In 2003, he guest conducted the Chamber Choir of the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Society.

Since 1995, Augustinas has collaborated regularly with Europe‘s leading authorities on choral art, including Frieder Bernius, Werner Pfaff, Anders Eby, Simon Halsey, Hermann Max, organising workshops in Vilnius with Jauna Muzika.

Choral music by Augustinas is very popular and is performed often in Lithuania and abroad.
His compositions have been published by Alliance Music Publication, Houston, Texas, and Laurendale Associates, Van Nuys, California, USA. He is a winner of several national and international competitions of choral composition, including the Florilege Vocal de Tours, France (1996) and the Song Competition of the Lithuanian National Song Festival (1997 and 1998).

Vaclovas Augustinas teaches at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and the Vilnius Pedagogical University, and is also a lecturer at the Arts Faculty of Klaipėda University and the Vilnius Centre for Music Education.