Young people are often looking for entertainment and new challenges – sometimes rather daring ones. At the Montis Magia Loft climbing centre, the thrill lies not only in testing one’s strength, but also in the adrenaline rush of attempting something they may never have done before – pushing beyond one’s limits. Musicians, like athletes, are forever striving for new heights and greater achievements. In music, too, this can mean refining one’s technique: mastering a particular musical figure with ever greater ease, precision and agility.
In Violin Antics, the performers take us deep into the world of virtuosic eighteenth-century violin sonatas. Alongside a work by J. S. Bach, the programme features music by two of the period’s great violin virtuosos, A. Vivaldi and A. Corelli, as well as a harpsichord partita by Ch. Graupner. Listen closely and you may hear rapid passages and leaping melodies reverberating around the climbing centre’s walls – or perhaps even follow the unfolding of a passacaglia improvised on the spot.
Debora Kramarek
Born in 1994, Debora Kramarek graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where she studied violin with Tadeusz Gadzina and Paulina Sokołowska. From 2015 to 2018, she studied baroque violin with Agata Sapiecha at the university’s Interfaculty Department of Early Music. As part of an international study programme, she studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Austria) with Susanne Scholz. In 2020, she completed her master’s degree at the Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź, where she studied baroque violin with Judyta Tupczyńska.
Debora Kramarek has performed extensively as a soloist and orchestral musician, with a repertoire that includes works by J. S. Bach, A. Corelli and M. A. Charpentier, among others. In 2018, she performed at an anniversary concert at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw as a member of the orchestra of the International Early Music Summer Academy. She collaborates with a number of early music ensembles, including Altberg Ensemble, Il Tempo and Senza Battuta. She has further developed her skills at masterclasses led by distinguished teachers and performers, including Simon Standage, Agata Sapiecha and Leila Schayegh.
Eglė Rudokaitė
Born in 1998, Eglė Rudokaitė graduated in piano from the M. K. Čiurlionis School of Arts in Vilnius in 2017, having studied with Sonata Mikulė. She also studied organ as an elective subject with Dr Vidas Pinkevičius. From 2017 to 2023, she studied organ at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA) in the class of Assoc. Prof. Dr Balys Vaitkus, completing her master’s degree there. In 2026, she also obtained a master’s degree from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, where she studied with Prof. Dr Martin Sander. Since autumn 2026, she has been pursuing doctoral studies in organ and early music at LMTA.
Debora Kramarek
In 2016, Rudokaitė won First Prize and a laureate’s diploma at the J. S. Bach Young Pianists’ Competition in Vilnius. That same year, she was awarded Second Prize at the Jonas Žukas Young Organists’ Competition, also held in Vilnius. In 2019, she won First Prize at the 7th Juozas Naujalis Organ Competition, as well as a special prize for the best interpretation of a work by Naujalis. In 2020, she was awarded the Antanas Smetona Presidential Scholarship for academic achievement. In 2022, she won First Prize at the International Organ Competition in Jūrmala, Latvia.
From 2014 to 2021, Rudokaitė was principal organist at the Church of the Holy Cross (Bonifratres) in Vilnius. Since 2020, she has served as organist at the Cathedral Basilica of St Stanislaus and St Ladislaus in Vilnius. Since 2026, she has also taught at the M. K. Čiurlionis School of Arts. She has been a member of the National Association of Organists since 2023 and has served on its board since that year.
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Violin Sonata in G major, BWV 1021
Adagio Vivace Largo Presto
Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)
Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 2, No. 3
Preludio Corrente Adagio Giga
Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713)
Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 5, No. 9
Largo Giga, Allegro Adagio Tempo di Gavotta, Allegro
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