Rostropovich Charity and Support Foundation

"Help Lithuanian Children"

Mstislav Rostropovich is announced of the Aid for Lithuanian Children Foundation for Music for children gifted in music and ballet 2024 - 2025

Participant Questionnaire

The Mstislav Rostropovich Charity and Support Foundation "Aid to Lithuanian Children" was established on 12 April 2003 on the Maestro's personal initiative.
The Foundation, established in Lithuania, currently supports children with a special talent for art.

Many of the children supported by the Foundation have not only achieved their dreams, but have also been able to perform on the world's biggest stages - playing with world-renowned orchestras and being recognised among the best.

About the Rostropovich Charity and Support Fund

Events

Rostropovich Charity and Support Foundation "Help Lithuanian Children" celebrates its 20th anniversary!

This year, the Rostropovich Charity and Support Foundation "Help Lithuanian Children" celebrates its 20th anniversary!

Four anniversary concerts are being organised to mark the occasion in 2023. We cordially invite you to join us in supporting the Rostropovich Charity and Support Fund "Aid to Lithuanian Children" with your participation in the anniversary concerts.

The anniversary concerts will feature current Fellows, as well as Alumni from Finland, Germany, the UAE, Switzerland, England, Canada and other countries. Around 30 Lithuanian talents discovered and mentored by the Foundation will take part in all events!

We invite you to take part in the events and celebrate together this important and special anniversary of the Foundation!

CLOSING EVENT

2024 6 October

Ongoing

Interdisciplinary dance, music and light concert

For the first time ever, an interdisciplinary concert of dance, music and light will be held, featuring ballet dancers currently supported by the Foundation and internationally acclaimed ballet dancers who are already Alumni of the Foundation.

Tickets for this event are expected to go on sale in August.

Participants:

Foundation Alumni - ballet artists

THIRD CONCERT

2023 2 April

Event

PORTRAITS

On 2 April, the third anniversary event will take place at the National Philharmonic's Small Hall, with a chamber music concert. It will feature performances by the Foundation's Alumni Ensembles, who have come together especially for this anniversary concert.

Participants:

Soloists - alumni and scholarship holders of the Mstislav Rostropovich Charity and Support Foundation in Lithuania

SECOND CONCERT

1 April 2023

Event

DISPUTE WITH ORCHESTRA

This evening we will have the opportunity to hear as many as 13 Foundation Alumni and scholarship holders accompanied by the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the National Prize laureate Maestro Robertas Šervenikas.

Participants:

LITHUANIAN NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Soloists - alumni and scholarship holders of the Mstislav Rostropovich Charity and Support Foundation in Lithuania

FIRST CONCERT

2023 March 2

Event

BIRTHDAY PRELUDE

The concert will take place on 2 March at St Catherine's Church with the St Christopher Chamber Orchestra (artistic director and chief conductor M. Barkauskas). This concert will feature the Foundation's outstanding young generation of scholarship holders - pianists Klėja Kašubaitė, Joris Mikužis and Pijus Pirogovas. All three young artists are laureates of international competitions, active participants in various musical projects, and have already managed to win the affection of Lithuanian and foreign music lovers.