Liutauras Janusaitis (Saxophone)

 

 

A versatile artist,one of the most promising voices of Lithuania's professional music scene, usually known as jazz saxophonist but also plays piano and arranges／composes music in majority of styles.

 

Liutauras is a graduate from J.Gruodis Conservatory (Kaunas,Lithuania) and Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (Vilnius,Lithuania).

This artist is a leader and composer of projects such as 'Baltic Salsa Orchestra', jazz quintet 'Certain Case', electro-acoustic experimental band 'LJ Electrobop' to name a few. In 2007 Liutauras became a member of outstanding contemporary fusion band－D'Orange which consists of top jazz musicians in Lithuania.

 

As a soloist in other projects or with bands named above he has made concert tours to Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, Baltic States and has performed in U.S.A, Russia and Japan as well.

This artist also constantly arranges and records for various rock, r&b and pop projects and often takes part in many international festivals of jazz and contemporary music.

 

As a composer, he usually works in the field of electronic music, but has done remarkable works for acoustic instruments as well, including music for piano, various chamber ensembles, saxophone quartets.