Women's History Month 2024 - Day 24 - Žibuoklė Martinaitytė - Heights and Depths of Love

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Closing Concert April 7—Choose the piece(s) you’d like to hear!
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Hello and welcome to Women’s History Month 2024!

My name is Amy Wurtz. I am a pianist and composer living in Chicago and I want to celebrate all the beautiful, creative, expressive, important, powerful music that women have written. Every day of March 2024 I will post a new video with music written by a woman, and tell you a little about her life and her work.

Welcome to Sunday, March 24. Today we hear from Lithuanian composer Žibuoklė Martinaitytė, who I had the pleasure of meeting when I first started doing online concerts back in 2020. Žibuoklė is a prolific composer interested in nature, textures, color, and inner worlds and creates music that is haunting, ethereal, highly expressive, and always well-crafted. She currently lives and work in New York and is in demand as an orchestral composer and speaker. You can see my interview with her from 2020 here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBcMqSqpOK8&t=0s and the concert where I played her music here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxwPD_aFAaA&t=701s

I am playing only the first movement of her work from 2007, Heights and Depths of Love. The first movement is called Togetherness, and features a very restricted, open harmonic language, with big waves of passionate chords and repetitive figures bursting forth. The following two movements, Disintegration, and Searching for Clarity, complete the cycle, and I hope to perform them in the future.

Please visit Žibuoklė’s website to discover more of her music! https://zibuokle.com/

ALBUM RELEASE CONCERT Today, May 24, 3:00 pm at Epiphany Center for the Arts
https://epiphanychi.com/events/wurtz-berger-duo-album-release-featuring-origin-of-animal/
Come hear the Wurtz-Berger Duo play music for cello, piano, and big-band! Be the first to get your ears on our new album, featuring pieces by Laura Elise Schwendinger, Tina Davidson, Alex Shapiro, and me. The concert is FREE and features Origin of Animal as well. See you there!

Please subscribe to my YouTube channel @AmyWurtz so that you won’t miss any videos in the future! You can visit my page to “buy me a coffee” https://www.buymeacoffee.com/amywurtz and help support this and other programs I have going on. I also welcome you to catch me at two live events for Women’s History Month:

On Sunday, April 7, I’ll play the Women’s History Month Closing Concert. At this concert, audience members can choose which pieces from the past 31 days they’d like to hear live. The concert is in the Sanctuary at Epiphany Center for the Arts, and is free and open to all.
More info here. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/amywurtz/e/221270
https://epiphanychi.com/events/womens-history-month-grand-finale-amy-wurtz-piano/


Thanks for listening to women composers!

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