Ona Jonaitytė (Flute)
Ona Jonaitytė (b. 1982) graduated from Vilnius Jesuit Gymasium in 2000 and Balys Dvarionas Ten-Year Music School for Children where she studied flute with Paulius Koncė. The same year she entered theLithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre to study with Prof. Algirdas Vizgirda. In 2004 – 2005 she attended traineeship courses in France, Lyon National Conservatoire of Music and Dance (Conservatoir national superieur musique et danse de Lyon) with Prof. Philippe Bernold and assistant Emmanuelle Reville. Several times, she has participated in master classes held by the famous flutist Gerard Buorgogne. In 2003, she participated in an open lesson held by Prof. William Bennet at the Royal Academy of Music, London. In 2004, she was invited to Neuhardenberg International Wind Chamber Music master classes held by the clarinettist Prof. Eduard Brunner and bassoonist Prof. Klaus Thunemann.
Ona Jonaitytė won the 1st prize at the VIII J. Pakalnis National Young Performers Competition (2000) and 3rd prize at the XXIX Ščečinik Young Performers Competition in Poland (2000). In 2005 she won the First Prize at the international flute competition Juodkrantė 2005 and Second Prize together with the woodwind quintet of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre at the Klaipėda International Competition for Chamber Ensembles and Concertmasters. In 2006 she won the only prize at the YAMAHA woodwind competition. Together with the mixed trio of the Lithuanian B.Dvarionas Music School, she won the 1st prize at the IV Lithuanian Accordion Competition (2000). Ona Jonaityte has been actively participating in the Lithuanian music scene not only as a soloist, but also as a performer of chamber music. She has played with the Student Symphony Orchestra of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius University Chamber Music Ensemble and Musica Humana; she has toured Poland Germany and France. She has performed together with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, and performed J. S. Bach’s Passion according to John in Spain together with the Vilnius State Quartet and choir Aidija. In 2003, she worked at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, and now she is the primario of the flute quartet of the LAMT (Ona Jonaityte, Ula Caplikaite, Anzelika Daunoraviciute and Jelena Kruvelis). In 2006 she finished her MA studies at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and was awarded a performer and teacher’s diploma. The same year she was offered a teacher’s position at the M. K. Čiurlionis School of Arts. Currently, she has been studying at the Boston Conservatoire (USA) with Prof. Linda Toote.
Ona Jonaitytė has performed in ensembles with the oboists Donatas Pocius and Celine Heurtier (France), clarinettists Šarūnas Jankauskas, Andrius Bernotaitis, Guntis Kuzma (Latvia) and Carolie Ordulu (France), bassoonists Vladimir Sedlak (Slovakia) and Anne-Charlotte Lacroix (France), violinist Agne Švagždytė, violist Irutė Bilotaitė and cellist Povilas Jacunskas.
Lithuanian Composers
Balys Dvarionas
Elegy
Juozas Gruodis
A la Chopin
”The Sea Song”
Chamber Works
Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite in B minor for flute, strings and basso continuo, BWV 1067
Marc Berthomieu
Arcadie (in 3 movements), for 4 flutes
Les Chats (Cinq pieces pittoresques, in 5 movements), for 4 flutes
Jacques Castérède
Flutes en Vacances
Franz Doppler
Andante and Rondo
Paul Hindemith
Kleine Kammermusik, for wind quintet, Op. 24/2
Francois Jeanjean
Ski Symphonie
André Jolivet
Serenade
Sonatina for flute and clarinet
György Ligeti
Bagatelles (6) for wind quintet
Felix Mendelssohn
Scherzo op. 61 / 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quartet for flute, violin, viola & cello No. 3 in C major, K. Anh. 171 (K. 285b)
Giacinto Scelsi
Anahit, for violin & 18 instruments
Works with Orchestra
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Concerto for flute, strings & continuo in D minor, H. 484.1, Wq. 22 (spurious arrangement, formerly H. 426)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050
Michel Blavet
Concerto for flute and orchestra in A minor
Domenico Cimarosa
Concerto for 2 flutes & orchestra in G major
François Devienne
Concerto No. 7 in E minor
Franz Doppler
Fantasie for flute & orchestra ("Fantasie Pastorale Hongroise"), Op. 26
Paul Agricole Genin
Fantasy on "Rigoletto" for flute & orchestra
Arthur Honegger
“Concerto da camera” for flute, English horn and strings
Jacques Ibert
Flute Concerto
Saverio Mercadante
Concerto for flute & orchestra in D major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Andante for flute & orchestra in C major, K. 315 (K. 285e)
Concerto for flute & orchestra in G major, K 313
Concerto for flute & orchestra in D major,K 314
Carl Nielsen
Concerto for flute & orchestra
Johann Joachim Quantz
Concerto for flute & orchestra in G major
Carl Reinecke
Concerto for flute & orchestra in D major, op. 283
Bernhard Romberg
Flute Concerto in B minor op.30
Antonio Vivaldi
Flute Concerto, for flute, strings & continuo in A minor, RV 440
Flute Concerto, for flute, strings & continuo in D major ("Il gardellino"), Op. 10/3, RV 428
Flute Concerto, for flute, strings & continuo in D major, RV 429
Flute Concerto, for flute, strings & continuo in F major ("La tempesta di mare"), Op. 10/1, RV 433
Flute Concerto, for flute, strings & continuo in F major, Op. 10/5, RV 434
Flute Concerto, for flute, strings & continuo in G major, Op. 10/4, RV 435
Flute Concerto, for flute, strings & continuo in G major, Op. 10/6, RV 437
Flute Concerto, for flute, strings & continuo in G major, RV 438
Flute Concerto, for flute, strings & continuo in G minor ("La Notte"), Op. 10/2, RV 439
Solo Works
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Sonata for flute in A minor, H. 562, Wq. 132
Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita in A minor for flute solo, BWV 1013
Claude Debussy
Syrinx
André Jolivet
Incantations (5) for flute solo
Marin Marais
Les Folies d'Espagne
Toru Takemitsu
Voice
Works for Flute and Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach
6 sonatas for flute and harpsichord, BWV 1030-1035
Frederic Chopin
Variations for flute and piano
George Enescu
Cantabile et Presto for flute and piano
Philippe Gaubert
Nocturne et Allegro Scherzando for flute & piano
Paul Agricole Genin
Variations for flute and piano ”Venice Carnival”
Marin Marais
Couplets de folies (Les folies d'Espagne), for flute & continuo (or various arrangements)
Frank Martin
Ballade for flute & piano
Olivier Messiaen
Le Merle noir for flute and piano
Francis Poulenc
Sonata for flute & piano, FP 164
Sergei Prokofiev
Sonata for flute and piano op. 94
Carl Reinecke
Sonata „Undine" for flute and piano op. 167
Albert Roussel
Joueurs de flute for flute & piano, Op. 27
Franz Schubert
Variations on "Trockne Blumen" for flute & piano in E minor, D. 802 (Op. posth. 160)
Paul Taffanel
Fantaisie for flute & piano on Themes from Weber's Der Freischütz
Andante Pastorale et Scherzettino for flute & piano in G minor
