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Kazickas Family Sacred Music Hours – 23rd Season

The 23rd season of the Kazickas Family Sacred Music Hours has officially opened. Since 2003, this concert series has become an important part of Vilnius’ summer cultural life, bringing together outstanding performers and audiences who appreciate sacred music year after year.

This year’s season opened with soprano Vismantė Vasaitytė-Benkunskienė, the internationally acclaimed Šiauliai Boys’ and Youth Choir “Dagilėlis”, led by Remigijus Adomaitis, and organist as well as the festival’s longtime artistic director, professor Renata Marcinkutė-Lesieur.

This summer, audiences can look forward to 14 more Sacred Music Hours concerts featuring performers from Lithuania, the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Germany, and Poland.

A special concert honoring the 85th wedding anniversary of Mrs. Alexandra Kazickas and Dr. Joseph P. Kazickas will feature Nida Grigalavičiūtė (USA), Eglė Juozapaitienė, Vytautas Juozapaitis, Liudas Mikalauskas, the Chicago Lithuanian Opera Chorus (led by Nida Grigalavičiūtė), and organist Renata Marcinkutė-Lesieur.

We invite you to become part of this long-standing musical tradition and experience the beauty of sacred music in the heart of Vilnius.

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Photos Modestas Endriuška

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MO Museum and Kazickas Family Foundation

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MO Museum and the Kazickas Family Foundation

Since 2020, the Kazickas Family Foundation has been proud to partner with MO museum in Vilnius to support educational programs for socially underprivileged children and youth from remote areas of Lithuania.

With KFF’s support, children and young people aged 5–18 are gaining meaningful access to culture and education.

In 2025 alone, the initiative reached nearly 1,200 participants — including youth from rural regions, Ukrainian refugees, members of the Lithuanian Roma community, young people with special needs.

Together, we delivered 29 regional educational sessions, 24 programs at MO Museum in Vilnius, and gifted almost 240 KFF-branded museum tickets for independent visits.

This initiative reflects our shared commitment to social inclusion, education, and youth empowerment through culture. We deeply appreciate MO Museum’s dedication to its donors and partners – from their annual donor event, where impact and achievements are thoughtfully shared, to their many innovative initiatives that strengthen community connections.

Strong partnerships create meaningful impact. We are grateful for MO Museum’s warm, multi-level collaboration and their continued commitment to making culture more accessible and inclusive for all.

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The Sacred Music Hours

Art & Culture

The Sacred Music Hours

It is a cycle of summer concerts of organ music in Lithuania started in 2003. They are a part of The Christopher Summer Festival. With a structure of “festivals within a festival”, it is the largest and one of the most impressive series of summer music events in Lithuania, that runs June to September. The cooperation of the music festivals organizers and performers with world-renowned musicians accelerates the acceptance of Lithuania’s musical culture and its political activities into the international realm.

In 2015, the cycle of summer concerts of organ music was renamed to The Kazickas Family Sacred Music Hours.

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