Percussionist and composer Arkadijus Gotesmanas won the 12th Annual Vilnius Jazz Festival Prize for contributions to Lithuanian jazz and was awarded Saturday at the Russian Drama Theater in Vilnius.
Gotesmanas has been performing jazz for more than three decades. He has long partnered with Vyacheslav Ganelin, Petras Vyšniauskas, Vladimir Tarasov, Liudas Mockūnas, Dainius Pulauskas and Tomas Kutavičius, and also performs with the Vilnius Jazz Orchestra, the ACCOsax Freeminded trio, with Juozas Kuraitis, with Eugenijus Kanevičius and many other jazz masters.
Gotesmanas’s newest project is a duet with Dmitri Golovanov on keyboard featuring spontaneous improvisation using acoustic percussion beats, keyboard melodies and live electronic sounds. The poet Rolandas Rastauskas often makes the duet a trio.