37th Vilnius Jazz Festival. 16-20 October, 2024

Dominykas Norkus

Lithuania

Dominykas Norkus – bs, electronics

The saxophonist is entering the VJYP competition for the second time as a soloist. In 2022, he was voted the best instrumentalist of the competition. This year, he won the title again and was also recognised as the best composer of the original composition.

His Metaphysics will now be put to the festival audience’s test.

Dominykas Norkus graduated from the Vilnius Conservatoire, then studied jazz at the LAMT under Jan Maksimowicz, and last year honed his skills at the Royal Academy of Music in Aalborg, Denmark, as part of the Erasmus exchange programme. He is currently pursuing his Bachelor’s studies at the LAMT, where he studies with Liudas Mockūnas.

A couple of years ago in Denmark, Norkus took part in the international project Open Jazz Jam Summer Camp, and this year he has toured Denmark and Germany with Kenneth Dahl Knudsen’s Elastic Ensemble.

Dominykas also tried his luck as a composer in the Petrichor International Music Competition, where he reached the semi-finals. 

Vilnius Jazz'2024

Vincent Courtois - François Corneloup

France

Alister Spence - Tony Buck

Australia

Nout

France

Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones

USA

John Butcher’s Vilnius Fixations

UK-Lithuania

Raskin - Sandell - Perkis - Tarasov Quartet

USA-Sweden-Ireland-Lithuania

LENsemble feat. Naomi Beeldens "Louis Andriessen - M is for Man"

Lithuania-Belgium

Aruán Ortiz: Cub(an)ism

USA

Kasparas Pocius: "Tai - mūsų muzika. Laisvasis džiazas ir juodaodžių politika XX a. 7 dešimtmetyje"

Lithuania

Thierry Quenum: The Art of the Arrangers

France

Philip Arneill: Tokyo Jazz Joints

UK

Vladimir Tarasov - Vytautas Landsbergis: Post Fluxus games

Lithuania

Greta Skaraitienė: Brass MANIA

Lithuania

Preisaitė - Sachiko M - Hitomi

Lithuania-Japan

Kondo Tatsuo K3

Japan

Otomo Yoshihide Special Big Band

Japan

 
Vilnius Jazz Extra Line

Art Blakey: The Jazz Messenger

USA-UK

Who is: Sonny Rollins

USA-UK

David, Moffett, And Ornette: The Ornette Coleman Trio

USA-UK

I Heard It Through The Grapevine

USA-UK

Sound??

USA-UK

 
Vilnius Jazz Young Power 2024

Duck Saved Jones

Lithuania

Dominykas Norkus

Lithuania

207 Collective

Lithuania

Moving

Lithuania

 
Vilnius Jazz Young Power 2024 Guests

Mikas Kurtinaitis

Lithuania