Discover Baltic repertoire with the help of the Musica database
Reading session to discover how to use Musica database for repertoire – get to search, see, listen and sing compositions and arrangements referenced by Musica.
Do you know Musica and its powerful online database? Find out how to search efficiently for repertoire in Musica database (>200,000 titles), highlighting in this session the Baltic repertoire (>2000 titles) and get to read details, see, listen and sing a selection of songs from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, with Jean Sturm, founder and director of Musica, and Linas Balandis, Lithuania.
Jean Sturm (Strasbourg, France) has been directing choirs since the age of 15. At the same time choral conductor and research scientist, with expertise in computer programming, at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), he gained international notoriety through his commitment to the development of the multilingual multimedia database of choral music MUSICA which he conceived in 1982 at the Centre d’Art Polyphonique d’Alsace and which has become a major project of world choral life. He is currently Executive Director of the association which manages the project.
When he was President of the choral federation A Coeur Joie – Alsace, he was at the origin, then the linchpin of the “Europa Cantat 9” festival which brought together 4,300 singers from 33 countries for 14 days in Strasbourg in 1985 and which was the most striking event of the European Year of Music in the field of choral singing.
Jean Sturm is laureate of the “Alsace Foundation” and was awarded the rank of “Knight of the French National Order of Arts and Letters”, in correlation with the Musica project.
Dr. Linas Balandis (b. 1988, Lithuania) graduated in Choir Conducting under Vytautas Miškinis from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (2013) and PhD at the same institution (2018). He is the winner of four international competitions (The Art and Education in the 21st Century in Portugal (2009); Rovdo Conductors’ Competition (2014) in Minsk; International choir conductors’ competitions „Towards Polyphony; International Juozas Naujalis choir conductors’ competition). Furthermore, he has won prizes at five Lithuanian competitions (including the Lithuanian Young Conductors Competition).
He is currently the conductor and Artistic Director of the male choir Kariūnas at the General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania, Artistic Director of Šiauliai State Chamber Choir „Polifonija“, Dean of Music Faculty and Choirmaster of mixed choir in Music and Theater Academy of Lithuania (Choir Conducting Department).
