Prof. Raimondas Katinas

Lithuania

Raimondas Katinas is a conductor, an educator, a choral leader, a music arranger as well as an author of musical compositions. In the past – a choirmaster at Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, a longtime conductor of the Lithuanian Radio Choir. Currently, he is a teacher at National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Arts, so called Small Lithuanian Academy of Music, where he teaches conducting and choir disciplines. His students have won numerous awards at International Competitions for Young Conductors, and a lot of them successfully work in Lithuania as well as abroad. Since 2000 under his leadership a well-known youth choir of Vilnius Balys Dvarionas Music School VIVA VOCE has achieved a victory in over ten international competitions, a lot of Grand Prix and has become gold winner of SLOVAKIA CANTAT 2018. At the moment he has over 160 mixed-age students in the choir. VIVA VOCE participated in different concerts in the USA, Japan, Italy, France, England, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Greece, Turkey, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Estonia and Latvia. The music performed by the choir ranges from the Renaissance to contemporary jazz and even rock music. Raimondas Katinas has an extensive record of musical activity. Over 300 choral and orchestral musical performances have been recorded on the Lithuanian Radio up-to-date. Raimondas Katinas has been the artistic director of various globally unique Lithuanian Song festivals, where a choir of up to 20.000 singers perform at the same time. Apart from being a member of the Lithuanian Choral Union for many years, Raimondas Katinas also writes articles and reviews, is in close cooperation with the Lithuanian Radio and Television, as well as consults Lithuanian regional choirs and conductors. Mr. Katinas has not only arranged over 200 Lithuanian and other nations folk songs and choral pieces, but also adapted to choir different instrumental musical works. He is the author of numerous original a cappella choral compositions as well as various classical, folk, jazz and rock ones. He has held positions in juries of various Young Conductors and international choral competitions and is the recipient of numerous state and other honourable awards.