Regina Maciūtė (soprano)
Professional Career:
Regina Maciūtė graduated from the Lithuanian Conservatoire in 1971 where she studied solo singing with V. Fakejevaitė. Since 1971 she has been a soloist at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic. She attended career development classes in Bulgaria (1972), J. S. Bach Summer Academy (Stuttgart, Germany, 1990) and Mozarteum (Salzburg, Austria, 1993). Maciūtė was a laureate of the 6th M. Glinka International Competition of Vocalists (1973). Maciūtė performs music of various styles: from baroque to contemporary music. She has been actively participating in programmes of many Lithuanian music ensembles, giving recitals with Lithuanian and foreign orchestras and performing large-scale music opuses: Requiem by W. A. Mozart, The Creation by J. Haydn, Messiah by G. F. Handel, Carmina Burana by C. Orff and Stabat Mater by G. Rossini. The soloist has been regularly giving concerts together with various musical ensembles: Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Lithuania Minor Symphony Orchestra, Vilnius String Quartet, St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra, The Kaunas State Choir, Choir of the Klaipėda Music Theatre, Aidija choir, boys choir Ąžuoliukas, ensemble Musica Humana, and pianist Gražina Ručytė-Landsbergienė. She has been participating in music festivals in Lithuania and abroad (Schleswig-Holstein); the singer has toured USA, Japan, Canada, France, Belgium, Russia, Austria, Spain, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Island and Germany. The soloist has added many records to the sound archive of Lithuanian Radio: the cycle of O. Messiaen Harawi together with Gražina Ručytė-Lansbergienė, opuses by many Lithuanian composers (E. Balsys, J. Gruodis, K. V. Banaitis, B. Dvarionas, S. Vainiūnas, J. Juzeliūnas, J. Juozapaitis, B. Kutavičius, A. Martinaitis, O. Narbutaitė, M. Urbaitis, V. Barkauskas, A. Šenderovas, F. Bajoras, etc.); under the baton of Saulius Sondeckis she has recorded Requiem by W. A. Mozart, Stabat Mater by G. Rossini, Mass G-Major by F. Schubert and Messiah by G. F. Handel; under the baton of Juozas Domarkas, the oratory by G. F. Handel Alexander’s Feast or The Power of Music; together with pianist Sergej Okruško, opuses of K. V. Banaitis, V. Barkauskas and R. Žigaitis; Maciūtė has recorded many opuses with the folk instrumental ensemble Sutartinė (long-term leader Pranas Tamošaitis). She has published nine CDs.
Educational Career:
Since 1988, Regina Maciūtė has been working at the Singing Department, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, in 1996, she became associated professor (now professor). She has trained many talented performers such as K. Zmailaitė, J. Berba, R. Vaicekauskaitė, D. Žibkutė, J. Adamonytė, V. Mončytė and V. Raginskytė; some of them appear successfully at national and international competitions (Natalija Katilienė, Liora Grodnikaitė, Dalia Kužmarskytė and Raminta Vaicekauskaitė).
Academic and Methodological Activities:
J. Petronio Publishers published a romance by S. Vainiūnas, Lakštingala (Nightingale), in 2007; R. Maciūtė edited the vocal part and B. Vainiūnaitė, the piano part. The singer has prepared methodical textbook Mūsų balsas – mūsų kūno veiksmas. Artikuliacinio aparato darbas dainuojant (Our Voice Is the Action of Our Body: The Work of Articulation Apparatus in Singing) which refers to fifteen years of her pedagogical experience as well as works of N. Malisheva and R. Miller, remarks of Betty Jeanne Chipman and practical advice on voice training by Louis-Jacques Rondeleux.
Other Activities:
The soloist has been participating in juries of various competitions: the chairwoman of the 2nd V. Jonuškaitė-Zaunienė competition, member of juries of the 4th and 5th International Competitions for Chamber Music Singers Yantarny Solovei in Kaliningrad. Since 1995 she has been a member of the National Art and Culture Award Committee. It has been five years since she was elected the chairwoman of the public organisation Šatrijos Ragana Society, which aims to preserve the writer’s memory.
Awards:
Awarded the Fourth Class Order of Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas (1997). 13 November 1997: Government of the Republic of Lithuania Art Award; 2002: the Gold Disk Award by the Lithuanian Musicians Union. Following the 26 June 2003 bill of Kretinga District Municipality Council Regina Maciūtė has become a honorary citizen of Kretinga district.
Lithuanian Composers
Vladas Bagdonas
Peace Symphony
Feliksas Bajoras
The Birch Has Grown
Suite of Stories, for voice and piano
I have Ridden All Day, for voice and piano
Deaf Forest (Prayer), for voice and piano
Rearing Mother, for voice and piano
Lullaby, for voice and piano
Where Is the Father's Granary, for voice and piano
Diptych, for voice and piano
Oh, My God, for voice and piano
Cherry-tree, for voice and piano
Why?, for voice and piano
Triptych, for voice and piano
Eduardas Balsys
Cantata ”Bearing the Sun” (1972)
Jūratė Baltramiejūnaitė
Vocal cycle „Earth, You Beauty”
Kazimieras Viktoras Banaitis
All Through the Night I Have Been
Vytautas Barkauskas
”Flower Burst into Blossom” (1987)
Oratorio ”I am Greeting the Earth”
Opera ”Legend about Love”
Vidmantas Bartulis
Requiem
”Two Epitaphs” (1984)
Justinas Bašinskas
Rivers Flow, cycle for voice, cello and piano
Vocal cycle „Owl's Hour”
Cantata ”Hands of the Mother”
Borisas Borisovas
Cantata ”Colours” (1984)
Musical in two parts ”In the Land of Music” (1985)
Konstancija Brundzaitė
Two Laments (1968)
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
”I Got Up Early” (VL 26)
Povilas Dikčius
Sonnets
Balys Dvarionas
Pine-trees, for voice and piano
A Starlet, for voice and piano
”Oh, Sad, Sad”
”Amber” (1969)
”In the Meadow” (1969)
Juozas Gruodis
In the Autumn stillness, for voice and piano
Poppies, for voice and piano
Juozas Indra
”Sun is Going Down” (1965)
Jurgis Juozapaitis
Vocal cycle ”I will Blossom like the Wormwood”
Vytautas Jurgutis
Blossom's Life, vocal cycle
Vocal cycle ”Ciurlionis Sketchbook”
Cantata ”Sonorities” (1978)
Julius Juzeliūnas
Cantata Flowers' Talk
Eight Lithuanian Folk Sutartines
Giedrius Kuprevičius
Vocal cycle „Trees” (1966)
Vocal cycle „We Argonauts” (1973)
Bronius Kutavičius
Oratorio ”Last Pagan Rites”
„Three Sonnets by Adam Mickiewicz” (1992)
„On the Shore” (1772)
Kampf der Bäume (1996)
Vytautas Laurušas
Vocal cycle „Waves” (1960)
Teisutis Makačinas
Three Fairy-Tales for voice and piano
Algirdas Martinaitis
Cantata Cantus ad Futurum
„Pieta” (texts from the Gospel of St. Matthew and old Lithuanian hymnals) (1998)
”The Way and the Wayfarer” (1999)
Onutė Narbutaitė
Poem of Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas
Oratorio Centones Meae Urbi
Vaclovas Paketūras
”On a Hill” (1965)
”Violet”
Anatolijus Šenderovas
Two Songs of Shulamith with percussion ensemble
Chamber cantata ”I Am Nobody” (1968)
”Know That Cow”
Juozas Tallat-Kelpša
”My Heart Celebrates Today” (1919)
”Where the Fields Lay Flat”
”Not the Motley Falcons” (1908)
Jonas Tamulionis
”Seven Love Elegies” (1982)
”Summer Psalms” (1985)
Cantata ”Children's Land” (1988)
Mindaugas Urbaitis
Resignatio for soprano and string quartet
Celebrabo Te, Domine, for two sopranos, flute, oboe, cello, harpsichord and organ
Stasys Vainiūnas
Prelude
”My World”, Op.3 No.2 for voice and piano
”Autumn Night”, Op.9 for voice and piano (1941)
”Silence” for voice and piano (1970)
”To Lithuania” for voice and piano (1960)
Chamber Works
Cesar Franck
Panis Angelicus
George Frideric Handel
Son come Navicella
Guillaume de Machaut
Seven Ballades
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Aria Vorrei Spiegarvi, o Dio
Jacques Offenbach
Barcarolle from opera Les contes d’Hoffmann
D. Sarri
Sen Core L'agneletto
Arnold Schöenberg
Quartet No.2
Franz Schubert
Salve Regina
Antonio Vivaldi
Solo Motet „In Furore”, RV 626
Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin
Pastourelles, romances et chansons du XVIIIe siècle
Works with Orchestra
George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess duet Bess, you is my woman now from opera Porgy and Bess
Oratorios Cantatas Mass
Johann Sebastian Bach
Oratorium … Die heilige Weynacht (Christmas Oratorio), BWV 248
Magnificat, BWV 243
Mass in B minor, BWV 232
Ludwig van Beethoven
Oratorio Christus am Oelberge [The Mount of Olives] , op. 85
Anton Bruckner
Te Deum, WAB 45
George Frideric Handel
Oratorio Alexander’s Feast or The Power of Music, HWV 75
Oratorio Messiah , HWV 56
Joseph Haydn
Oratorio "Die Schöpfung", (The Creation) , H XXI:2
Missa (Nelsonmesse; Imperial Mass; Coronation Mass), d
Felix Mendelssohn
Elijah (Elias), op. 70
St Paul (Paulus), op. 36
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Cantata Le berger fidèle
Gioachino Rossini
„Stabat Mater”
Franz Schubert
Mass no.2, G , D 167
Antonio Vivaldi
Oratorio Juditha triumphans , RV 644
Voice and Symphony Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 9
Benjamin Britten
Les illuminations (A. Rimbaud) op. 18
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Aria „Dulcissimum con Vivium” from Litane de Venerabili Altaris Sacramento
Giovanni Batista Pergolesi
Cuius Animam Gementem
O Quam Tristis et Afflicta
Quis Est Homo
Eia Mater Fons Amoris
Vidit Suum Dulcam Natum
Fac ut Ardeat Cor Meum
Sancta Mater Istud Agas
Fac ut Pertem Christi Mortem
Inflammatus et Accensus
Voice and Trio
Giovanni Batista Pergolesi
Quando Corpus Morietur. Amen
Voice and Piano
Georges Bizet
Adieux de l’hôtesse arabe
Johannes Brahms
Wie Melodien zieht es mir, 105/1
Mädchenlied op. 85 from Sechs Lieder
An den Mond op. 71 from Fünf Gesänge
Des Liebsten Schwur, 69/4
Die Perl an Perle, 57/7
Serenade, 58/8
Ernest Chausson
Sept mélodies (1879–82): 1 Nanny (Leconte de Lisle), 1880, 2 Le charme (A. Silvestre), 1879, 3 Les papillons (T. Gautier), 1880, 4 La dernière feuille (Gautier), 1880, 5 Sérénade italienne (P. Bourget), 1880, 6 Hébé (L. Ackermann), 1882, 7 Le colibri (Leconte de Lisle), 1882
Luigi Cherubini
„Ave Maria”
Claude Debussy
Deux romances (Bourget), 1885 (1891): L’âme évaporée, Les cloches
Cesar Franck
Les cloches du soir (M. Desbordes-Valmore), 1888 , op. 87
Valery Gavrilin
Al’bomchik [Little Album]
Imants Kalniņš
Three Poems
Gustav Mahler
Liebst du um Schönheit (Rückert), C
Olivier Messiaen
”Harawi, Chant d'Amour et de Mort”
Franz Schubert
Du bist die Ruh, D 776
Ballade D 134
Suleika II, D 717
Suleika I, D 720
Schwanengesang, D. 957
Dmitri Shostakovich
Iz yevreyskoy narodnoy poėzii [From Jewish Folk Poetry], op. 79
Richard Strauss
Sechs Lieder aus Lotosblätter (Schack) op. 19
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Unosi moyo serdtse [Take my Heart Away], op. 16
Shest' romansov (Six Romances): Zakatilos solntse (The Sun has Set), Snova, kak prezhde, odin (Again, as Before, Alone), op. 73
Veljo Tormis
10 Haiku
Opera
Georges Bizet
Carmen (Carmen)
Works for Voice and Accordion
Joseph Kosma
Wait
Concert in Paris, 02 13 2002
A.Martinaitis "The Way and the Wayfarer"
Ensemble "Musica Humana", R.Maciute
Concert in Juodkrantė, Evangelic Lutheran Church, 07 04 2001
D.Buxtehude Partita „Auf meinen lieben Gott”
G.Caccini „Amarilli”
G.B.Pergolesi „Se tu m'ami”
H.Purcell „Ground”
„Hornpipe”
G.Sarti Aria from opera „Giulio Sabino”
L.Cherubini „Ave Maria”
F.Couperin „La Visionnaire” - „La Monflambert” - „La Muse Victorieuse”
A.Vivaldi „Vieni, vieni”
Abros aria from oratorio „Juditha triumphans”
J.Ph.Rameau „Le Rappel des Oiseux”
Gavotte
J.B.Weckerlin „Menuet d'Exhaudet”
„Jeunes fillettes”
J.S.Boismortier „La Veloute” - „La Frenetique”
J.S.Bach „Et exultavit” iš „Magnificat”
Aria from cantata no. 68
Gediminas Kviklys (organ)
