The contemporary music ensemble was founded in Vilnius in 2016, by sister and brother violinist Lora Kmieliauskaitė and cellist Arnas Kmieliauskas. Twenty Fingers Duo actively participate in and initiate contemporary art projects, with a strong focus on collaboration with artists from other fields. The main task of the ensemble’s musical activity is to foster and promote Lithuanian music, while the gamut of their activities ranges from standard concert appearances and interdisciplinary performances to collaborations in contemporary opera, theatre, dance, and film productions.

The music they perform emerges at the intersection of extended playing techniques and graphic scores.  In its live performances, Twenty Fingers Duo places great emphasis on the stage setup and the mingling between light and darkness. In 2020, they released their debut album Performa. In the recent years, they have released two more albums – Dualitas and Two Sides: West/East – and an interdisciplinary stage work Orpheus, Eurydice, which was nominated in four categories of the Performing Arts Awards ‘Golden Crosses’ and won the award for the best interdisciplinary work of the year in the Lithuanian Composers’ Competition (both in 2023).

Programme:

• Dominykas Digimas (LT, 1993)  “East” (2023 / 11 min. / vn-vc-tape)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOtSeXEeeM
  https://open.spotify.com/track/26DReN5rWplCqOOxqfOqu1?si=f41a131360514eec
• Rūta Vitkauskaitė (LT, 1984) “Hightet” (2019 / 6 min. / vn-vc)
  https://open.spotify.com/track/6hAhNj9GDuNqM7OMtIjn70?si=e6557e502f09431d
• Arturas Bumšteinas (LT, 1982) “DNA canon ” PREMIERE (2024, ~10-15 min. / vn-vc)
• Kristupas Bubnelis (LT, 1995) “…please leave your message after the tone…” (2020 / 17 min. / vn-vc-tape)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLrbmB7fY4c
  https://open.spotify.com/track/792XecNr8AE953EWI2zkQY

Links:

Web: twentyfingersduo.com

FB: https://www.facebook.com/twentyfingersduo

IG: https://www.instagram.com/20fingersduo/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2fOI6MzVFTERLxs1LeU85s?si=NWCy1gmaT3236Wpic-3dYA

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqCVysqrCI4_R5EvV-TDoQ / https://youtu.be/FNBGJiQOCAY?feature=shared

 

Note: All guests must be 20 years or older and have a valid ID

The performance is part of the concept New Baltic Sounds! Three concerts from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in one venue, for one night and one ticket. Welcome! 

The concert is arranged in collaboration with the Baltic Contemporary Music Network and the Lithuanian cultural attache in Sweden, Finland and Denmark, supported by the Lithuanian Culture Institute.