Jonė Punytė
Jonė Punytė (born in 1980) started studying music when she was six (teacher Lilija Petrauskienė). In 1997 she graduated from the Kaunas Juozas Naujalis Music Gymnasium (teacher Birutė Kumpikienė).
In 2003 she finished her MA studies in solo piano (with Prof. Olga Šteinbergaitė) at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and attended lied classes at the Stuttgart Higher School of Music and Theatre with Prof. Konrad Richter, Prof. Cornel Witthoefft and in 2004-2006 hammerklavier (authentic old piano) classes at the Trossingen (Germany) Higher School of Music, Prof. Eckart Sellheim.
Currently she has been studying piano for practice-based PhD at the LMTA with Prof. Veronika Vitaitė.
The pianist has participated in various festivals: Returns (Sugrįžimai, 2006), Vergessene Musik Gorlitz (Germany), H. Wolf-Jahr 2003 Stuttgart (Germany) and VII Chamber Music Festival in Bari (Italy). She has performed together with the LMTA Symphony Orchestra (conductor Robertas Šervenikas). In 2000 she won the First Prize at the Chamber Ensemble Competition in Vilnius; in 2005 she took the Second Prize at the I International Competition for Singers and Accompanists; in 2006 she was awarded the First Prize and a special prize for the best performance of a contemporary opus in lied category (with singer Wakako Nakaso) at the VI International Competition Franz Schubert and the Music of Modern Times in Graz (Austria).
The pianist has been focusing particularly on chamber music, especially on the lied genre. Together with her duo partner Wakako Nakaso (Japan) she has prepared concerts in Germany, Austria (Vienna Bosendorfer Hall), Italy and Lithuania. She has also performed together with singers Gintarė Skėrytė, Dainius Puišys, Natalija Katilienė, Rasa Juzukonytė, Mindaugas Zimkus, Giedrius Prunskus, Osnat Kaydar and Yaron Windmüller, trombonist Viacheslav Chumachenka, clarinettist Antanas Taločka and others.
Lithuanian Composers
Julius Andrejevas
Destiny for piano
Eduardas Balsys
March for two pianos
Zita Bružaitė
Novel for two pianos
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
Preludes: VL169, VL182a, VL187, VL188, VL269, VL270, VL271, VL260, VL264
The Sea (VL 255) fragment from the symphonic poem for piano
Fugue in B flat minor VL345
Stasys Vainiūnas
Eight Moods, Op.43 for piano
Chamber Works
Arthur Benjamin
Le Tombeau de Ravel for clarinet & piano, "Valse-Caprices"
Leonard Bernstein
Sonata for Clarinet & Piano
Johannes Brahms
Sonata for Clarinet (or viola) & Piano No. 1 in F minor, Op. 120/1
Sonata for Clarinet (or viola) & Piano No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 120/2
Frédéric Chopin
Polonaise for cello and piano op. 3
Henri Dutileux
Sonata for oboe & piano
Jean Françaix
Tema con variazioni, for clarinet & piano
Edvard Grieg
Sonata for cello & piano in A minor, Op. 36
Joseph Haydn
Piano trio in E flat minor Hob.XV/31
Paul Hindemith
Sonata for flute & piano
Sonata for clarinet & piano in B flat major
Arthur Honegger
Sonatine, for clarinet (or cello) & piano, H42
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata for violin and piano in B flat major K.31
Sonata for violin and piano in A major K. 526
Francis Poulenc
Sonata for violin & piano, FP 119
Sonata for flute & piano, FP 164
Sonata for clarinet & piano, FP 184
Max Reger
Sonata for clarinet & piano No. 3 in B flat major, Op. 107
Carl Reinecke
Sonata in E major for flute & piano ("Undine"), Op. 167
Franz Schubert
Sonata for violin & piano in A minor, D. 385 (Op. posth. 137/2)
Robert Schumann
Phantasiestücke (3 Fantasy Pieces) for clarinet (or cello or violin) & piano op. 73
Romances (3) for oboe (or violin or viola) & piano op. 94
Igor Stravinsky
L'histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale), concert suite for 7 instruments
Karol Szymanowski
Fountain of Arethusa from Mythes, 3 poems for violin and piano
Works with Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No.3, in C minor, op. 37
Franz Liszt
Piano Concerto No. 1, in E flat major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major ("Elvira Madigan") K. 467
Voice and Piano
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ich denke dein WoO 74
Alban Berg
Sieben frühe Lieder
Johannes Brahms
Zigeunerlieder from Eleven Gypsy Songs for Middle Voice and Piano op.103
Ach, wende diesen Blick from Eight Songs for Voice and Piano to texts by Daumer
op.57
An die Nachtigall - To the Nightingale op. 46, No. 4 from Four Songs for Voice and Piano
An eine Aeolsharfe - To an Aeolian Harp op. 19, No. 5 from Five Poems for Voice and Piano
Auf dem Kirchhofe - In the Churchyard op. 105, No. 4 from Five Songs for High Voice and Piano
Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht - Death is the Cool Night No. 1 from Four Songs for Voice and Piano op. 96
Romanzen (Magalone-Lieder) - Romances (Magelone Songs) for Voice and Piano op. 33
Es träumte mir No. 3 from Eight Songs for Voice and Piano to texts by Daumer op.57
Feldeinsamkeit - The Loneliness of the Field No. 2 from Six Songs for Low Voice and Piano op. 86,
In meiner Nächte sehnen from Eight Songs for Voice and Piano to texts by Daumer op.57
Mädchenfluch - A Girl's Curse No. 9 from Nine Songs for Voice and Piano op. 69
Mädchenlied - Girl's Song No. 5 from Five Songs for Voice and Piano op. 107
Nachtigall - Nightingale Nr.1 from Six Songs for Voice and Piano op.97
O kühler Wald - Oh Cool Forest No. 3 from Five Songs for Voice and Piano op. 72
Regenlied - Rain Song Nr.3 from Eight Songs for Voice and Piano op.59
Strahlt zuweilen auch from Eight Songs for Voice and Piano to texts by Daumer op.57
Unbewegte laue Luft from Eight Songs for Voice and Piano to texts by Daumer op.57
Vergebliches Ständchen - Fruitless Serenade No. 4 from Fünf Romanzen und Lieder - Five Romances and Songs for One or Two
Voices with Piano op. 84
Von waldbekränzter Höhe from Eight Songs for Voice and Piano to texts by Daumer op.57
Wenn du nur zuweilen lächelst from Eight Songs for Voice and Piano to texts by Daumer op.57
Wie Melodien zieht es mir - As If Melodies Were Moving No. 1 from Five Songs for High Voice and Piano op. 105
Wir wandelten - We Were Walking No. 2 from Four Songs for Voice and Piano op. 96
Benjamin Britten
Sonnets (7) of Michelangelo, for voice & piano, Op. 22
The Poet’s Echo op.76
Fish in the unruffled lakes
Paul Dessau
Licht (from Dreistrophenkalender)
Avner Dorman
The fair of men
Jonathan Dove
Five Am’rous Sighs, No. 2, 3
Heimo Erbse
Frühlingsdämmerung
Hermann Heiss
Die Küche (from Drei häusliche Lieder)
Heinz Holliger
Dörfliche Motive
Christian Jost
Der explodierende Kopf
Ernst Krenek
Die Nachtigall op. 68
Four Songs op. 112
O Lacrymosa op.48
Wechselrahmen op.189
Conradin Kreutzer
Der Pilgrim
Frühlingsfeier op. 33, No. 4
Frühlingsglaube op. 33, No. 2
Gretchens Klage
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Der Mond op. 86, No. 5
Schilflied op. 71, No. 4
Suleika op. 34, No. 4
Gian Carlo Menotti
Five Songs
Marcel Mihalovici
Abendgesang
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Das Veilchen K. 476
Canzonetta "Ridente la calma" K. 152
Abendempfindung K. 523 / Song with Piano "Abend ist's"
Als Luise die Brief ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte K. 520
Hans Pfitzner
Immer leise wird mein Schlummer No. 6 from Songs (7) for voice & piano, Op. 2
Verrat No.7 from Songs (7) for voice & piano, Op. 2
Sergei Prokofiev
Songs op.27
Benedict Randhartinger
Des Mädchens Klage
Franz Schubert
Die Schöne Müllerin D. 795
Die Rose D. 745
Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen D. 343
Nähe des Geliebten D. 162
Amalia D. 195
An die Nachtigall D. 497
An Silvia D. 891
Auf dem Wasser zu singen D. 774
Ave Maria D. 839
Das Mädchen D. 652
Der Jüngling am Bache D. 638
Der Knabe D. 692
Der Pilgrim D. 794
Die Forelle D. 550
Die Gebüsche D. 646
Die Grichische Götter D. 677
Die Vögel D. 691
Du bist die Ruh D. 776
Ganymed D. 544
Gretchen am Spinnrade D. 118
Heidenröslein D. 257
Hoffnung D. 637
Liebesbotschaft D. 957, Nr.1
Nachtviolen D. 752
Rastlose Liebe D. 138
Ritter Toggenburg D. 397
Sehnsucht D. 310
Suleika II D. 717
Robert Schumann
Dichterliebe op.48 / A Poet's Love
Frauenliebe und Leben op.42
Die Blume der Ergebung op. 83, No. 2
Die wandelnde Glocke op. 79, No. 17
Er ist’s op. 79, No. 23
Liebeslied op. 50, No. 5
Lied der Suleika op. 25, No. 9
Mignon op. 98a, No. 1
Richard Strauss
Allerseelen op. 10, No. 8
All mein Gedanken, mein Herz und mein Sinn op. 21, No. 1
Amor op. 68, No. 4
Cäcilie op. 27, No. 2
Der Stern op. 69, No. 1
Die Nacht op. 10, No. 3
Du meines Herzens Krönelein op. 21, No. 2
Einerlei op. 69, No. 3
Ich trage meine Minne op. 32, No. 1
Morgen! Op. 27, No. 4
Ruhe, meine Seele op. 27, No. 1
Schlechtes Wetter op. 69, No. 5
Ständchen op. 17, No. 2
Zueignung op. 10, No. 1
Ich wollt‘ ein Sträußlein binden op. 68, No. 2
Georgy Sviridov
Nine Songs
Karol Szymanowski
Samotny kasiezyc, Uczta / Songs of a Fairy-Tale Princess, songs (6) for voice & piano, Op. 31, M32
Viktor Ullmann
Der Mensch und sein Tag
Anton Webern
Songs (3) from "Viae inviae" for voice & piano, Op. 23
Hugo Wolf
Italienisches Liederbuch (Books 1 & 2), for voice & piano
In dem Schatten meiner Locken song for voice & piano (Spanisches Liederbuch)
Bedeckt mich mit Blumen song for voice & piano (Spanisches Liederbuch)
Klinge, klinge, mein Pandero song for voice & piano (Spanisches Liederbuch)
Nun wandre, Maria song for voice & piano (Spanisches Liederbuch)
Das verlassene Mägdlein ("Früh, wann die Hähne krähn"), song for voice & piano (Möricke Lieder)
Begegnung song for voice & piano (Möricke Lieder)
Der Gärtner / ("Auf ihrem Leibrösslein"), song for voice & piano (Möricke Lieder)
Elfenlied song for voice & piano (Möricke Lieder)
Er ist’s song for voice & piano (Möricke Lieder)
Gebet / ("Herr! schicke was du willt"), song for voice & piano (Möricke Lieder)
Heimweh / ("Anders wird die Welt"), song for voice & piano (Möricke Lieder)
Im Frühling / ("Hier lieg ich"), song for voice & piano (Möricke Lieder)
In der Frühe / ("Kein Schlaf noch kühlt das Auge"), song for voice & piano (Möricke Lieder)
Lebe wohl / ("Lebe wohl! Du fühlest nicht"), song for voice & piano (Möricke Lieder)
Schlafendes Jesuskind / ("Sohn der Jungfrau"), song for voice & piano (Möricke Lieder)
Verborgenheit / ("Lass, o Welt, o lass mich sein"), song for voice & piano (Möricke Lieder)
Mausfallen-Sprüchlein
Verschwiegene Liebe ("Über Wipfel und Saaten"), song for voice & piano (Eichendorff Lieder)
Zur Ruh‘, zur Ruh‘!
Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg
Amalia im Garten, Abschied Andromachas und Hektors
Solo Works
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Fantasy in F major Wq59
Johann Sebastian Bach
French Suite, for keyboard No. 6 in E major, BWV 817 (BC L24)
The Well-tempered Clavier, BWV 846-69: in C minor, C sharp major, D major, D minor, E flat major, E flat minor, E major, E minor, F major, F sharp major, G major, G minor
The Well-tempered Clavier, BWV 870-93 (selected): E flat major, F minor, A minor
Partita in B flat Major, BWV 825
Chorale Prelude „Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme“
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata no.11 in B-flat major, op.22
Sonata no.21 in C major, "Waldstein", op.53
Sonata no.24 in F-sharp major, op.78
Sonata no.31 in A-flat major, op.110
Variations and fugue in E-flat major, "Eroica" (15), op.35
Johannes Brahms
Ballades, op.10 No. 3, No. 4
Variations on an Original Theme, op.21, no.1
Frédéric Chopin
Scherzo for piano No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 31, CT. 198
Scherzo no.3 in C-sharp minor, op.39
Claude Debussy
Les collines d'Anacapri in B major from Preludes Book I
La cathédrale engloutie in C major from Preludes Book I
La sérénade interrompue in B-flat minor from Preludes Book I
Minstrels in G major from Preludes Book I
Jan Ladislav Dussek
Sonata in G major
Joseph Haydn
Sonata in G major Hob.XVI/6
Sonata in C major Hob.XVI/50
Sonata in E flat major Hob.XVI/52
Sonata in G major, Hob.16/6
Franz Liszt
Waldesrauschen [Forest Murmurs] in D-flat major from Etudes de concert (2), S.145
Fantasy and Fugue on the Name B-A-C-H, S.529
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata in G major K. 283
Sonata in E-flat major, K.282
Sonata in F major K. 332
Sonata in C minor K. 457
Sergei Prokofiev
Sonata no.7 in B-flat major, op.83
Romeo and Juliet, op.75
Pieces from the Ballet 'Cinderella' (10), op.97
Sergei Rachmaninov
Etude No.4 in B minor from Etudes-Tableaux (9), op.39
Maurice Ravel
Menuet and Toccata from Tombeau de Couperin
Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata for keyboard in C minor, K. 11 (L. 352)
Sonata for keyboard in F minor, K. 466 (L. 118)
Franz Schubert
Impromptu for piano in E flat major, D. 899/2 (Op. 90/2)
Impromptu for piano in G flat major, D. 899/3 (Op. 90/3)
Impromptu for piano in A flat major, D. 935/2 (Op. posth. 142/2)
Impromptu for piano in B flat major, D. 935/3 (Op. posth. 142/3)
Robert Schumann
Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor
Alexander Scriabin
Piano Sonata No. 2 in G sharp minor ("Sonata-Fantasy"), Op. 19
Etudes for piano, Op. 8
Etude for piano in D flat major, op. 42 No. 1
Anton Webern
Variations for piano, Op. 27
Hugo Wolf
Zum neuen Jahr
Two Pianos
Muzio Clementi
Sonata in B flat major
Claude Debussy
Lindaraja (1901)
Gustav Mahler
Kindertotenlieder
Bohuslav Martinu
Czech Dances (3) for 2 pianos, H. 324
Francis Poulenc
Sonata
Franz Schubert
Elysium D. 584
Viktor Ullmann
Sonnenuntergang