Kristupas Bubnelis’s curated project “The Resonances of Now” will open the 15th Kintai Music Festival at the Kintai Great Church. The programme brings together composers whose creative trajectories intersect with the New York contemporary music scene, presenting works by che ali, Bubnelis, Cem Güven, Emre Şener, and Žibuoklė Martinaitytė.
Kristupas Bubnelis …please leave your message after the tone…, created in collaboration with Elias Peter Brown on electronics, will be presented at the 28th Annual MATA Festival, INTERVAL: In Between Silence and Stasis, in New York City. The work appears on Night Three: Local Music, performed by BlackBox Ensemble at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music on Saturday, May 23, 2026, at 7:00 pm.
A new work by Kristupas Bubnelis, A Breach in a City, will be premiered by the International Contemporary Ensemble as part of Columbia Composers’ 2026 season. The concert takes place on March 24, 2026 at 6:30pm at St. Paul’s Chapel (Columbia University).
In a review for Lietuvos rytas, musicologist Rūta Gaidamavičiūtė praised Substantia Innominata for its seamless textural transformations:
“The work unfolds in waves, continually cresting into new peaks. The textural strata are woven with such assurance, and the unusual octave sonorities – shaped through a division of the octave into 17 equal parts – shift so seamlessly from one state to the next that it feels like the work of a master.”
Kristupas Bubnelis new work Substantia Innominata for clarinet, percussion, and string orchestra will receive its world premiere at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall. Performers: Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra (cond. Elias P. Brown), Rimvydas Savickas (clarinet), Andrius Rekašius (percussion).
The festival Muzikos ruduo in Vilnius will host the premiere of Grotta for violoncello quintet and modular synthesisers. Performers: Cello Club (violoncellos), Kristupas Bubnelis (electronics).
Kristupas Bubnelis has been nominated for the Le Tremplin Musical award by the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco.
Kristupas Bubnelis took part in the International Young Composers Academy Ticino, working under Oscar Bianchi, Francesca Verunelli, and Andile Khumalo, with Ensemble Modern.