My role:
Christopher Festivals
About
The idea to organise a Vilnius summer music festival was conceived in 1995 after a concert tour abroad by D. Katkus, the artistic director of the then recently established St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra. The concept was very simple - back then, the prevailing belief in Lithuania was that no cultural life could exist during summer in the city - only in the resort towns, and this was a belief that demanded to be refuted! The Maestro had seen many successful examples of an unexpectedly large amount of excellent classical music festivals occuring during summer in Western Europe - often in castles beyond the urban fringe, but in the larger cities as well.