Rytis Mažulis
RYTIS MAŽULIS (1961) graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music with Julius Juzeliunas. At present he holds a teaching post at the Lithuanian Academy of Music. In 1988 he was honoured with the prize ”Tyla“ (”Silence”) for the chamber composition The Sleep, in 1989 – the prize of the Lithuanian Culture Fund for chamber and vocal music. The composer was awarded the Akademie Schloss Solitude Scholarship for the period from September 1998 to April 1999 in Stuttgart. In 2002 he was awarded the prize for the best choral work (ajapajapam) at the composers’ competition arranged by the Lithuanian Composers’ Union. Works by Rytis Mažulis are constantly performed at various festivals (NYYD Tallinn, Musikhųst Odense, Deutschlandfunk Cologne, Prague Spring, Norrtelje Chamber Music Festival in Sweden, De Suite Muziekweek Amsterdam, Minimalismus Berlin, MaerzMusik Berlin), as well at the concerts in Warsaw, Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart (1994, 1999), Queen Elizabeth Hall in London (1995). Mažulis’ works are marked by a particular stylistic purity, the integrity and symmetry of a musical texture based on a counterpoint (mostly canonic) technique as well as by concentric forms of a ”circle” shape. It is natural that such direction of his oeuvre demands appropriate instrumentation in order to achieve a homogeneous and ”crystal” sounding.