Chamber Choir "Brevis"
The chamber choir Brevis is one of the best choirs in Lithuania. It was established in 1990. Since 1993 it has been led by conductor Gintautas Venislovas. The choir has been performing abroad frequently, participating in international festivals in Italy and France. In Lithuania, Brevis gives solo concerts at least once a year. Its repertoire is based on music a capella from Early Renaissance (J. Depres) to opuses by contemporary composers (G. Ligeti, A. Pärt). The choir also sings sacral music and folk music of various nations (in 2002 the choir won the international Competition of Russian Sacral Music in Poland). The young choir often participates in various non-traditional events together with other Lithuanian and foreign musicians. In 1999, together with famous Lithuanian rock and pop musicians, Brevis recorded the album Kalėdų gėlės (Christmas Flowers) and gave a concert-installation Amžinoji šviesa (Eternal Light) by combining music, monumental art and architecture. In 2001, the choir organised the courses for interpreting choir music from Philippines and other countries of Asia, held by the conductor from Philippines J. A. Pamintuan. During all its performances the choir demonstrates an ability to interpret work by composers of various centuries and epochs subtly and with style.
Brevis has won several important competitions. In 1996 the choir won Grand Prix at the International Choral Competition in Slovenia; it won first prizes in Belgium (the same year), Spain (1997), Germany (1998), Italy (2000 and 2002) and Poland (2002). Upon being awarded Grand Prix at the International Competition of Choral Music ‘C.A. Seghizzi’ in Gorizia (Italy), the choir won the right to compete for the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing in Tours, 2003: the highest award for amateur choirs in Europe. Brevis won it triumphing over the winners of Grand Prix of the most important European choral competitions: choirs from Germany, United States of America, Norway and Finland.
In 2001 the choir Brevis was awarded the Golden Bird by the Folk Culture Centre for its long-term musical activity in Lithuania and abroad. The same year the Lithuanian Union of Musicians awarded the choir for its ingenuous and artistic programmes the highest prize: The Golden Disc.
Lithuanian Composers
Vaclovas Augustinas
Hymne a Saint Martin
Cantate Domine canticum novum
Vytautas V. Barkauskas
Commedia dell arte
Julius Juzeliūnas
Opera „The Game”
Jurijus Kalcas
Regina Coreli
Vytautas Miškinis
Tenebrae Factae Sunt
Stans autem Jesus
Lucis Creator optime
Laudate Pueri
Pater noster
Jonas Tamulionis
"Two Allegories of a Bird" (text by Justinas Marcinkevicius)
Canciones de amor (text by F.G. Lorca )
Verlaine (text by F.G.Lorca)
Mindaugas Urbaitis
Lacrymosa
Gintautas Venislovas
Agnus Dei from Missa brevis
O Sanctissima
Foreign Composers
Agostino Agazzari
Motet „Benedicta sit Sancta Trinitas“
Hendrik Andriessen
Ave Maria
Lajos Bardos
Libera me, Domine
Luciano Berio
"Laborintus II"
Kurt Bikkembergs
Missa in Honorem Sancti Norberti
Guillaume Bouzignac
Alleluya! Deus Dixit, motet for 5 voices
Johannes Brahms
Ich aber bin elend, motet for chorus, op. 110/1
Es ist das Heil uns kommen Her, motet for chorus, op. 29
Anton Bruckner
Os justi, gradual for chorus in Lydian mode, WAB 30
Javier Busto
Laudate Pueri
Comedetis carnes
Stephen Chatman
Elizabethan Summer
William Dawson
Ezekiel saw de wheel (spiritual)
Maurice Duruflé
Notre pere
Gabriel Fauré
Cantique de Jean Racine, for 4-part chorus and organ (or orchestra), op. 11
Jacobus Gallus
Pater noster
Musica noster amor
Jerusalem Gaude
Orlando Gibbons
Hosanna to the son of David, anthem for 6 voices
Ruggiero Giovannelli
„Suauissime Iesu“
Zoltán Kodály
Adventi ének
Marij Kogoj
Trenutek / The Moment
Andrzej Koszewski
Miserere
Serioso-Giocoso
Jean Langlais
Ave Mundi Gloria
Orlando di Lasso
„Benedic, anima mea“
Morten Lauridsen
Io piango
Ov’e lass, il bel viso (from “Six Fire Songs "on Italian Renaissance Poems)
Antonio Lotti
Crucifixus
Pawel Lukaszewski
Angelus Dominus
Claudio Monteverdi
S'andasse amor a caccia, madrigal for 5 voices (from Book 2), SV 49
Vic Nees
Gloria patri
Asprilio Pacelli
„Media nocte“
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
„Benedictus sit Deus“
„Missa Papae Marcelli“
Francis Poulenc
Timor et tremor, motet for chorus (4 motets pour un temps de pénitence)
Sanctus and Benedictus from Mass in G major , FP 89
Videntes stellam, motet (4 motets pour le temps de Noėl)
Karol Prosnak
Wesele Sieradzkie
Raymond Schroyens
Credo “I cannot find my way”
Francesco Rognoni Taeggio
„Pulchra es anima mea“
Laurence Traiger
Dort Starb Moshe
Thomas Tomkins
"See, See the Shepheards' Queene", for 5 voices (madrigal)
Orazio Vecchi
„L’Amfiparnaso“, w. Giulio Cesare Croce (1550–1609)
Giuseppe Verdi
Pater noster
Tomćs Luiso de Victoria
„Magnificat quinti toni“
"Missa pro victoria"
William Walton
"Set me as a seal upon thine heart"
Concert in Vilnius Congress Palace, March 25, 2009
CHAMBER CONCERT "White cyclamen - distant echoes in the song"
Naoko Zukero
White cyclamen (Shiroi Shikuramen)
Ko Matsushita
Japanese Folk Song Collection
Lithuanian and foreign composers
Kunitači music at the University Gymnasium Choir (Japan)
Chamber choir "Brevis" (lead. Gintautas Venislovas)
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