- Darius Klišys
Darius Klišys a pioneering birbyne player from Lithuania (birbynė or reedpipe/hornpipe is an
original Lithuanian woodwind instrument). Since 1997 he has recorded and released 16 albums:
baroque, contemporary and experimental electronic music. In 2008, Darius performed solo with his project “Water Serpents” at the 17th International
Electroacoustic Music Festival “Primavera en la Habana” in Cuba. In April 2009, he won the YouTube
Symphony Orchestra contest and was invited to the YTSO summit to perform at Carnegie Hall under
the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. In recent years he has been playing with such outstanding musicians like Marek Toporowski
(harpsichord/organ, Poland), Bozhena Korczyńska (sopilka, Ukraine), Sonata and Rokas Zubovas
(piano duo, Lithuania), Darius Polikaitis (conductor, US), Sergej Tcherepanov (Germany/Russia), Krzysztof Firlus (Poland) etc.
In 2003, Darius founded an ensemble Reversio (early music). He played with the ensemble and solo in
the US, Belgium, Germany, France, Poland, Cuba and other countries. Darius gives solo concerts and also performs with the ensemble Reversio, continues his research work in baroque music, gives birbynė lessons, composes music for the theatre, teaches at workshops. Since
2015 he is a director of international woodwind festival “Medynės”.
Darius Klišys (b. 1969, Lithuania) completed a birbynė course at Kaunas J. Gruodis Conservatoire in
1988 where he acquired a speciality of birbynė and gained experience as a performer and chamber
ensemble/orchestra leader. In 1992-1994, he studied audio engineering at the Audio Institute of
America. Darius received a B.A. in 2003 and an M.A. in 2005 from the Lithuanian Music and Theatre
Academy where he studied under the tutorship of Professor Romualdas Apanavičius and Dr. Kastytis
Mikiška. It was during these studies that Darius became interested in baroque music, its interpretation
and history, and in how the birbynė could be employed in its performance. His research was summed
up in the final Master‘s thesis “The Principles Of the Articulation Of Wind-Instruments In the Baroque
Epoch and Their Application To Birbynė”. Category:Music Category:Musicians Category:Baroque