Algirdas Budrys is one of
the most outstanding instrumentalists in Lithuania. He has taken part in over a thousand
solo and chamber concerts, has recorded more than 50 LPs and has made over a hundred radio
recordings with a repertoire that included all the principal classical and chamber
ensemble works for clarinet from Mozart to contemporary composers. Professor Budrys has
given concerts in all former Soviet republics, as well as in Hungary, Poland, the Czech
Republic, Germany, Finland, France, Egypt, Great Britain and the United States.
Rosetta Senkus Bacon
has performed extensively throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Her tours have
included recitals at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., St. Moritz Konzertstaal,
Taipei County Cultural Center in Taiwan and Kaunas Philharmonic Hall in Lithuania, have
taken her to major cities of U.S., Canada, Europe and Taiwan. In addition to her work as a
soloist, Ms. Bacon collaborates often with singers and instrumentalists. She has
concertized widely with Metropolitan Opera soprano Judith Raskin and is the regular
concert partner of clarinetist Algirdas Budrys. In the 1999-2000 season she performed
Gershwin's "Concerto in F" with Central Jersey Orchestra and will repeat the
performance in Lithuania as part of a cultural exchange in 2001.
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