MAESTRO DONATAS KATKUS HAS TURNED 75!
2017 09 30 d., Saturday, 5:00 PM
Kaunas State Philharmonic (E. Ožeškienės St 12, Kaunas)
A concert for the 75-th birthday of MAESTRO DONATAS JUOZO KATKUS!
ST. CHRISTOPHER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Art Direcor and Conductor Donatas Katkus
Soloist LIUDAS MOCKŪNAS (saxophone)
Program:
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906–1975) – Chamber Symphony Op. 110
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) – Serenade for String Orchestra, Op. 48
Osvaldas Balakauskas (1937) – “Polilogue”
It is hard to find such an artistic and enthusiastic personality as Donatas Katkus. He is 75, but still on going, relentless, fresh, encrusted with a rare and delicate sense of humor, a man of mood, creator and discoverer, never boring, always new DONATAS KATKUS. He is the founder and a guardian of St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra, talented professor, conductor, viola player, musicologist, author of many books, loving husband, a father and a grandfather, and there is still much to discover about HIM.…