musicologist

Raminta Lampsatis - musicologist

professorships since 1982

  • Professor for Art, Song and Opera at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hamburg, Germany
  • Guest Professor at the Music Academy in Vilnius, Lithuania
  • Guest Professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire, Russia

doctorate programme

  • music theatre (Promotionsausschuss des Fachbereich 3 der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg

degrees and studies

  • Dr. phil. in Musicology, Carl Dahlhaus, TU Berlin, Germany
  • Studies in Accompanying, Prof. Paul von Schilhawsky, Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria
  • Special Studies in English and French Literature, Media Studies, Theology
  • Bachelor of Arts in German Literature, Valparaiso University, Indiana, U.S.A.
  • Bachelor of Music, Solo Piano, Valparaiso University, Indiana, U.S.A.

scholarships

focus on Bronius Kutavičius & other Lithuanian composers

  • book Bronius Kutavičius, A Music of Signs and Changes, Biography and Work Analysis
  • BBC Wales (live interview on his works)
  • festival programmes (texts on his works)
  • concerts with his compositions together with Andrius Vasiliauskas
  • expert on Lithuanian composers, i.e. Osvaldas Balakauskas, Onutė Narbutaitė, Vytautas Bacevičius, M. K. Čiurlionis, Juozas Gruodis, Julius Juzeliūnas

books:

  • currently working on the biography of Laura Sarti as a co-author with Leslie Leon:
    Laura Sarti: Her Life, Her Technique, Her Vocal Exercises,
    publishing assistance by Draeger Verlag, Lübeck
  • Noblesse et Sensibilité: La Musique de Paul von Schilhawsky, 2005
  • Bronius Kutavičius, A Music of Signs and Changes, Vaga, Vilnius, 2002
  • TYLA (Silence), The Composer Osvaldas Balakauskas, Fischerdruck, Peine, 1988
  • Kammermusik, Reihe Vöhrum, 10 Jahre, Fischerdruck, Peine, 1986
  • Festschrift für Ferry Gebhardt zum 75. Geburtstag, Merlin Verlag, Gifkendorf bei Lüneburg, 1984
  • Dodekaphone Werke von Balsys, Juzeliünas und der jüngeren Komponistengeneration Litauens
  • Dodekaphonie als integrierende Technik, Doctoral Dissertation Berlin, 1977

articles:

  • “The City of Jerusalem” (interview with Sigitas Geda), Kultūros barai, 1999
  • “Fluxus Ryšys Mačiūnas”, Kultūros barai, 7/1997, p. 50-53
  • “Kutavičius ir Stockhausenas (Mintys po Huddersfieldo festivalio)”, Kultūros barai, 3/1997, p. 55-58
  • “Living Sound” (text of compact disc Bronius Kutavičius: Oratorijos), 33 Records, 33CD006, 1997, p. 10-13
  • “Kutavičius: Der Kampf der Bäume: The Battle of the Trees” in Vale of Glamorgan Festival of Living Composers Festival Book, 1996
  • “Broniaus Kutavičius kūriniai The Vale of Glamorgan Festivalyie” in Muzikos kultūros situacija nepriklausomoje Lietuvoje (conference lectures at the Lithuanian Academy of Music), margi raštai, Vilnius, 1996, p. 37-39
  • “Von rostigen Nägeln und farbigen Schlangen (über einige Besonderheiten der litauischen Kultur)”  (booklet for the Hammoniale Festival 1993, p. 51-53