Darius Kučinskas is a musicologist and Professor at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). In 1993, he graduated from the Lithuanian Music Academy as a pianist and defended his PhD in Čiurlionis’ music in 2002. Dr. Kučinskas worked as a Researcher for over ten years in the National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum and at J. Petronis Music Edition. Between 2004 and 2014, he served as Head of Department of Audiovisual Arts at KTU. He has published over 20 articles and participated in more than 40 conferences in both Europe and Asia, and has organized several international conferences in Lithuania dedicated to contemporary research of music interpretation, music semiotics and music technologies. He is the author of the monographs, The Musical Text of Čiurlionis Piano Music (Aspect of Genesis) (Technologija, 2004) and Chronological Catalogue of Čiurlionis Music (Technologija, 2007); and he is an editor of eleven editions of Čiurlionis’ music, including Piano Works (Urtext) (Yamaha Music Media Corporation, Tokyo, 2011).
Georg Kennaway is a cellist, conductor, teacher, and musicologist. He is Director of Music at the University of Hull, and holds visiting research fellowships at the universities of Leeds and Huddersfield. Born in Edinburgh, he studied at the universities of Newcastle and Oxford, the Guildhall School of Music, and the University of Leeds. As a cellist, he regularly performs as a soloist and chamber music player, on modern, 19th-century, and baroque cello. He has also conducted orchestras in the UK, Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Italy, and Lithuania. He received his PhD in 19th-century cello performance practice. From 2008–12, he was a Post-doctoral Researcher on a research project investigating 19th-century editions of string music. His publications include Playing the Cello 1780–1930 (Ashgate, 2014) and articles on editions of Haydn cello concertos, applications of Foucauldian discours to performance, and a comparative study of musical scores as instructional texts. He is the leading UK specialist in the music and art of M. K. Čiurlionis, and has published on Čiurlionis’ English reception and most recently on his octatonic compositions.
