Biography
Vilmantas Kaliunas was born in Vilnius, Lithuania. He received his first piano lesson from his father at the age of four before he started playing the oboe at the age of eleven. After studying conducting and oboe in Vilnius, he came to Germany in 1993 and continued his oboe studies with Prof. Armin Aussem at the Conservatory of Music Saarbrücken. Since 1998, Kaliunas is principal oboe in the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern. During his time in Saarbrücken, he worked with conductors like Paavo Järvi, Andrey Boreyko, Christian Thielemann and Heinz Holliger. Conducting Masterclasses with Prof. Karl- Heinz Bloemeke, Prof. Lutz Köhler or Prof. Jorma Panula and regular assistance for Maestro Karl Marek Chichon were initial impulses for Kaliunas to focus on his caree
Performance credits
Upcoming performances Today Onwards
Past performances 2022 — Yesterday
Abschlusskonzert der XVI. Bochumer Orchesterakademie, MahlerMárquez
Bochumer SymphonikerConductor
View program, cast and crewSimeon-Orchester / Migdal / Kaliunas, IbertBeethovenMendelssohn
Elbphilharmonie & Laeiszhalle HamburgConductor
View program, cast and crewMasterpieces of the Classics, MendelssohnSchumannTarkmann, A.Schubert
Kaunas State PhilharmonicConductor
View program, cast and crewHamburger Camerata / Zlata Chochieva / Vilmantas Kaliunas, Beach, A.PriceHaydnMozart
Elbphilharmonie & Laeiszhalle HamburgConductor
View program, cast and crewCinderella Und Prinz Malte – Frisch Frisiert, Prokofiev
Symphoniker HamburgConductor
View cast and crewUpcoming performances
44. Kinderkonzert Das große herzklopfen in der musik, Various
Hamburg Symphony OrchestraConductor
View cast and crew4. Kinderkonzert Der Feuervogel, Stravinsky
Hamburg Symphony OrchestraConductor
View cast and crewBiography
Vilmantas Kaliunas was born in Vilnius, Lithuania. He received his first piano lesson from his father at the age of four before he started playing the oboe at the age of eleven. After studying conducting and oboe in Vilnius, he came to Germany in 1993 and continued his oboe studies with Prof. Armin Aussem at the Conservatory of Music Saarbrücken. Since 1998, Kaliunas is principal oboe in the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern. During his time in Saarbrücken, he worked with conductors like Paavo Järvi, Andrey Boreyko, Christian Thielemann and Heinz Holliger. Conducting Masterclasses with Prof. Karl- Heinz Bloemeke, Prof. Lutz Köhler or Prof. Jorma Panula and regular assistance for Maestro Karl Marek Chichon were initial impulses for Kaliunas to focus on his caree
