Gintarė Skerytė (soprano)

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Biography
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Sound recordings
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Gintarė Skerytė graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre where she studied piano and singing. Her singing repertoire is varied and broad: from old to contemporary music. G. Skerytė has been participating in all music festivals organised in Lithuania and abroad (Vilnius, St. Christopher, Gaida and Pažaislis). The singer has prepared and performed many solo programmes not only in Lithuania, but also in Latvia, Russia, Poland, Germany, The Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Island and USA. She has been constantly performing with various Lithuanian and foreign orchestras, choirs and chamber ensembles. 

G. Skerytė has performed many leading parts in international projects of baroque operas: H. Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Dido), C. Monteverdi’s Orpheus and Eurydice (Eurydice), D. B. Pergolesi’s The Maid Mistress, F. Caccini’s La Liberazione di Riggiero dall' Isola d'Alcina (Alcina).

Selected international festivals in which the soloist has participated:
1993 Lucerne (Switzerland),
1995 Probaltica (Torun, Poland),
1995 Wroclaw (Poland),
1997 Warsaw Autumn (Poland),
1999 Music Festival in Germany,
2001 Tour of five concerts in USA,
2002 Concert in Bangkok (Thailand),
2003 Music festivals in Finland and Estonia,
2005 Kurressare opera festival (Estonia),
2006 Salzburg festival (Austria),
2006 Music festival in the Ukraine (Lvov).

In 1998 Lithuanian television produced a film about Gintarė Skerytė’s creative career. Since 1992, the singer has been transferring her experience to her students at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and the school of choir singing Liepaitės.

B. Kutavičius, Oratorio - Last Pagan Rites II movement. "Celebration of the Medvegalis Hill"

Programme No. 4

1. A. Vivaldi Allegro

2. D. Scarlati Gia il sole dal Ganga

3. G. Bononchini Aria from opera "Griselda"

4. A. Vivaldi Largo

5. H. Vila-Lobos Bachianas Brazileiras Air #5

6. G. Faure On the Border

7. A. Piazzolla Tango Contrabahendo

8. E.Granados El Majo Timido

9. E. Granados El Tra la la y el punteado

10. A. Piazzolla Tango Adios Nonino

11. J. Kosma Fallen Leaves

12. A. Kulikauskas Blessing

13. G. Bregovich Tango

14. P. Freire Sleep Blond

15. Z. Koreptos Conkers

16. N. Rota Amarkord

17. A. Deodato Piece

18. Neapolitan folk song Swallow

Soloists:

Gintarė Skerytė (soprano)

Andrius Kulikauskas (accordion)

QuinCelli

Programme No. 3

1. J. Naujalis Dream

2. A. Vivaldi Concerto (Allegro, Adagio, Allegro)

3. G. F. Handel Air

4. G. Giordani Caro Mio Ben

5. G. F. Handel Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

6. W. A. Mozart Duet - Zerlina and Don Giovanni

7. M. K. Čiurlionis Prelude

8. M. Petrauskas In the Green Field

9. Lithuanian Folk Song

10. F. Muehlhausen Minu Ifamajetene

11. G. Bizet Intermezzo

12. M. Ravel Chanson Romanesque

13. Sh. Gounod Serenade

14. Italian Folk Song Parrot

15. D. Oliweri Song & Foxtrot

16. A. Piazzolla Tango “Scent of a Woman”

Soloists: Gintarė Skerytė (soprano)

Ignas Misiūra (bass)

Chamber Ensemble Intermezzo

Programme No. 2

1. J. Naujalis Dream

2. A. Vivaldi Symphony Olympiad (allegro, andante, allegro)

3. G. F. Handel Aria Serse from opera Serse

4. W. A. Mozart Allegro di Molto

5. W. A. Mozart Laudate Dominum

6. W. A. Mozart Aria Despina’s from opera The Magic Flute

7. W. A Mozart Aria Papageno from opera The Magic Flute

8. W. A. Mozart Duet - Zerlina and Don Giovanni

9. A. Part Cantus

10. Lithuanian folk song

11. G. Faure Au bord de l’eau

12. C. Franck Panis Angelicus

13. A. Piazzolla Tango Adios Nonino

14. M. Sandoval Heaven I’d give You

15. E. Granados El Majo Timido

16. E. Granados El Mirar de la Maja

17. E. Granados El Tra la la y el punteado

18. A. Romero Fuga di Pajarillo

Soloists: Gintarė Skerytė (soprano)

Ignas Misiūra (bass)

Chamber Ensemble Intermezzo

Programme No. 1

1. A. Vivaldi Symphony (Allegro, Andante, Allegro)

2. G .F. Handel Air

3. G. Giordani Caro Mio Ben

4. G F. Handel Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

5. Fr. Schubert Bliss

6. Ch. Horn Cherry Ripe

7. A. Piazzolla Tango Contrabachende

8. C. A. Bixio Parla mi d’amore Mariu

9. C. A. Bixio Mama

10. A. Piazzolla Tango Adios Nonino

11. Sh. Gounod Serenade

12. C. Chiara Spain

13. G. Miller Moonlight Serenade

14. R. Hampton Ragtime

Soloists:

Gintarė Skerytė (soprano)

Virgilijus Noreika (tenor)

Chamber Ensemble Intermezzo