Edgaras Montvidas, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra & Modestas Pitrenas
Biography Edgaras Montvidas, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra & Modestas Pitrenas
Edgaras Montvidas
The Lithuanian tenor Edgaras Montvidas trained in Vilnius and was subsequently accepted into the Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He recently made his debut at the Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg as Don José ('Carmen') and at the Bregenz Festival as Pinkerton ('Madam Butterfly'). Further highlights were Stewa ('Jenufa') at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, 'Eugene Onegin' at the Oslo Opera, Alwa ('Lulu') at the Theater an der Wien and Stravinsky's 'Perséphone' with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Further works have taken him to the Hamburg State Opera, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Zurich Opera House, the Semperoper Dresden, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Santa Fe Opera, the Dutch National Opera, the Opéra Comique Paris, the Grand Théâtre de Genêve and the Aix-en-Provence Festival, among others. Concert highlights include Stravinsky's 'Le Rossignol' with the Berlin Philharmonic and Pierre Boulez, the 'Verdi Requiem' on tour with the Monteverdi Choir and Sir John Eliot Gardiner or Szymanowski's 'Harnasie' with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle. Edgaras is the recipient of the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Art 2022, the Lithuanian Order of Merit from President Dalia Grybauskaite and has twice been awarded the Lithuanian theatre prize 'The Golden Cross of the Stage' (2009 and 2022). Edgaras Montvidas made his debut at Theater Basel in the 23/24 season as Don José in 'Carmen'.
Modestas Pitrenas
is one of the most successful Lithuanian conductors of the younger generation. He has established himself internationally through his extensive symphonic concert activities as well as his operatic career. He made his debut with Mozart's Magic Flute at the Cologne Opera, has performed at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, the Warsaw National Opera, the Aalto Theater Essen, the Stuttgart Opera, the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, and Sergei Prokofiev's The Gambler at the Basel Theater. Awarded the Lithuanian Art and Culture Prize in 2012, the former Chief Conductor of the Kaunas Symphony Orchestra in Lithuania and former General Music Director of the Latvian National Opera in Riga is currently Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra in Vilnius. Modestas Pitrenas has been Chief Conductor of Konzert und Theater St.Gallen since the 2018/2019 season. Even before his appointment, he had already made a name for himself conducting numerous symphony concerts and opera productions at the St.Gallen Festival, including Salome, La Wally, The Flying Dutchman, Carmen, and Massenet's Le Cid. Since the 2023/24 season, he has also been Artistic Director of the Concert Division.
