Liudas Mockūnas (saxophone) and Petras Geniušas (piano) "Sea in the Forest"
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“Sea in the Forest” is a musical labyrinth in which two wanderers – Liudas Mockūnas (saxophone) and Petras Geniušas (piano) – meet at the same exits to the spaces of MK Čiurlionis' music.
The project of two musicians “Sea in the Forest” was born in 2011, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of the most famous Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875–1911). At that time, numerous attempts were made to use Čiurlionis’s music for new works, cross-genre and interdisciplinary interpretations. Of all these attempts, the duet of Geniušas and Mockūnas must be singled out as the result of extraordinary musical sensitivity and original interpretative vision, transferring the music of Čiurlionis and other Lithuanian composers to a new artistic level, mesmerizing with unexpected recontextualizations of quotes from their work. For musicians of different generations and genres, Čiurlionis’s work has become a source of inspiration and an incentive to dive into the “sea” of individual experiences and subjective stylistic interpretations. “We are united by the “Vilnius School”, which is difficult to fit into any format, and is characterized by a combination of anarchy and discipline. "In addition, we have one common teacher – Vladimir Čekasin," says Geniušas, who became Mockūnas's creative partner for the first time.
The music created by the duo cannot be confined to one specific style – in the virtuoso conversation, one can hear fragments of romantic, impressionistic, contemporary music, jazz and free improvisation, comments and entire solo openings, firmly connected into a continuous flow of sound events. It is like a labyrinth of 19th century echoes, 20th century (fragments of the work of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Feliksas Bajoras, Julius Andrejevs) and 21st century (improvisations of Mockūnas and Geniušas): both performers are searching for their own path in it and discovering new and unexpected turns, discovering each other behind each of them. In other words, it is not the music of searches, but of discoveries.
