Kaunas Jewish Community Invites You to a Concert

Location: Great Hall, Vytautas Magnus University, Gimnazijos street No. 7
Time: 3:00 P.M., January 17, 2016

The Kaunas Jewish Community and the Sugihara Foundation “Diplomats for Life” have the pleasure of requesting your attendance at a concert. The concert dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladas Varčikas will feature his students, including:

professor Petras Kunca (violin),Vilija Vitkutė Pranskienė (violin), Kristijonas Venslovas (violin), Daiva Valentaitė (alto), Andrius Pleškūnas (alto), Benas Ulevičius (vocals, guitar),

and his student Violeta Valerija Polianskienė’s students:

Milda Šalučkaitė, Paula Savulionytė, Laura Bagurskaitė

And also:

Marija Pranskutė (violin), Stasys Makštutis (clarinet), Birutė Šernaitė (piano), Jolita Makštutienė (piano), actress Kristina Kazakevičiūtė and the recollections of Elena Andriuškevičienė (teacher, colleague of Varčikas. rescued from the Kaunas ghetto)

The concert program will include works by Telemann, Kreutzer, Gounod, Schubert, Paganini, Joachim, Haydn, Andersen, A. Dvořák, Rubinstein, Tchaikovsky, Dankla, Nichifor, Kovács and Ulevičius and recollections by director Kama Ginkas.

Master of ceremonies: Dr. Linas Venclauskas.