Vytautas Jurgutis

born in 1976, he studied composition with Osvaldas Balakauskas at the Lithuanian Academy of Music in Vilnius, winning a diploma in 2000. In 1996 he received the ‘Tyla Prize’ for the best piece of the year by a young Lithuanian composer. In 1997–99 he was the principal organizer of the Days of Young Chamber Music in Druskininkai. His multimedia composition Spectrum rtm was presented in 1998 at the Baltic ‘ArtGenda’ Biennale in Stockholm. He participated in the Darmstadt summer courses (1998), the International Summer Academy Prague-Vienna-Budapest (1999) and the 1st Young Artists Biennale in Turin (2000). He received the Young Composer Prize in
a competition organized by the Lithuanian Music Fund (2001). At the beginning of 2002 he resided and worked in the International Centre for Composers and the ‘Alpha’ Electro-Acoustic Music Studio in Visby (capital of Gotland, Sweden). In 2003 he took part in the ‘MaerzMusik’ Festival in Berlin, and earlier this year in the ‘Turning Sounds’ International Festival in Warsaw. He is the director of the ‘Jauna muzika’ Electronic Music Festival. His works are available on a sacd (Super Audio cd) released by the Swedish label Caprice (‘Sound Masks’, 2003).

Selected works: Light Installations for piano (1995), Papyrus from the Book of the Dead for soprano, flute and two prepared pianos (1995), Depths of Eternity for two violins, viola and cello (1996), Sticky Rhodes, computer music (1996), Expansia, computer music (1997), g.a.l.House for three flutes and tape (1997), Present and Absent Messiah’s Face for mixed choir, text: R. Mukatavicius (1997), Semjase for string orchestra (1998), Zoom for harpsichord, two violin, viola, cello and double bass (1999), Fractals for instrumental ensemble (1999), Ci for symphony orchestra (2000), Sound Masks, computer music (2001), Axis, computer music (2001), PoDar, computer music (2001), Su60, computer music (2002), Alpha 10, computer music (2002), Telogenos for large instrumental ensamble (2002), Ellipses for two violins, viola and cello (2003), Lambdezons, computer music (2004).
Performances: The Future Sacros for mixed choir, instrumental ensemble and tape (1997), Spectrum rtm for computer and three videos (1998), Telomeros for computer and three videos (2002).

Terra Tecta
In Latin, the title means secret territory, land, or universe – created by everyone from the very beginning, in different order and for different reason, through energy, time and direction, where real and illusory patterns are constantly fluctuating and interchanging. The structure and development of the composition are also determined by all these aspects.
The piece was commissioned by the ‘Warsaw Autumn’ Friends’ Foundation, with the financial support of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung in Munich. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Daiva Parulskiene and Andrzej Chłopecki.