24th International Conference Principles of Music Composing invites scholars to explore the role of ethnicity in the modern world. The aim of the conference is to reassess the significance of ethnicity in the music of the 20th and the 21st century with a focus on highlighting the aesthetic and technical possibilities of its expression.

Vox Juventutis, a series of choral sheet music, has recently added three new titles by Evaldas Alekna, Lukas Butkus, and Deividas Edas Kukta, the winners of the 2023 edition of the homonymous annual competition for young composers held in Vilnius. The music reflects the composers’ creative insights in relation to last year’s theme, Spatial Solutions and Polychoral Textures. The new pieces are already available via the e-shop of the Music Information Centre Lithuania. 

The Lithuanian Composers’ Union and the Jauna Muzika Choir of Vilnius Municipality have launched the eighteenth edition of the annual Vox Juventutis Competition of choral music for undergraduate and postgraduate students of music, and higher secondary pupils.

To celebrate the centenary of the movement that gave rise to the international musical avant-garde, the Research Centre of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, together with the ISCM Lithuanian and Austrian sections, is organizing a symposium and a series of concerts on 6 and 7 October 2023, with a special focus on the impulses of the musical (trans)avant-garde and the movements of young composers, also the debuts of composers representing different generations in ISCM festivals.

Lithuanian Composers’ Union, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, 23rd International conference of music theory “Principles of Music Composing: National versus Global”, November 15-17, 2023, Vilnius.

The Lithuanian Composers’ Union has recently released as sheet music six new choral pieces written in 2021 and 2022 in its Vox Juventutis Series. All the works are by young and aspiring Lithuanian composers who have presented their music at the Vox Juventutis Competition in Vilnius.