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VIKTORIJA ALLOWS YOU TO GLANCE INTO HER SOUL AND ENJOY THE DEPTH OF ACTIVE LISTENING. INSPIRED BY HOPE AND INFINITE CONNECTIONS THAT EXIST THROUGHOUT TIME.
Captivating collaboration of Viktorija Pilatovic with Petros Klampanis (bass, co-producer, percussion), Albert Palau (piano), Quique Ramirez (drums), Jorge Pardo (flute, track 3), and James Copus (trumpet, track 4).
March 31, 2023 ΠΚmusic/Inner Circle Music
BIO
Viktorija Pilatovic is a Lithuanian vocalist, bandleader, composer, and educator who shares her love for jazz through her original music: poetic melodies and lyrics, modern, heart-grasping chord progressions, and virtuosic vocal performances. She is a recording artist with four releases featuring original music: "Skybridges" 2023, "The Only Light" 2019, "Stories" 2017, and "Nica's Blues" 2013. Her music has been covered in NPR live sessions, Downbeat magazine, RTVE, Discopolis Radio 3, and various other platforms.
Alongside Sílvia Pérez Cruz, her voice can be heard on "Voces," the latest big band album by renowned Spanish saxophonist Perico Sambeat.
Through Berklee, she has collaborated in productions with Gilberto Gil, Victor Wooten, Michael League (Snarky Puppy), Banda Magda, and Petros Klampanis, who produced her fourth album, Skybridges, released in March 2023, featuring acclaimed Spanish flutist and saxophonist Jorge Pardo.
Some of the festivals she has already performed at in Spain include Valencia, San Sebastian, Seville, and Formentera, along with outstanding programs in Europe and outside in Switzerland such as Montreux Jazz, France like Jazz-Rhone-Alpes in Grenoble, Denmark, Lithuania's Vilnius Mama Jazz, Ecuador, the United Kingdom, Poland, Tunisia, Belgium, and The Netherlands.
Viktorija teaches Undergraduate and Master students at Berklee Valencia and Musikene in San Sebastian, as well as various international seminars, with her most recent one being in Abu Dhabi at the Berklee Abu Dhabi Creative Arts Educators Symposium.
Viktorija was born on the 12th of March, 1989, in Klaipeda, Lithuania. At the age of 6, she began playing classical piano and later picked up the guitar and started writing songs. In 2007, she began her Bachelor's studies in Jazz Vocal at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. In 2010, Viktorija moved to The Netherlands to further her jazz studies at Prins Claus Conservatorium. Here, her style evolved from traditional to contemporary jazz.
In 2012, Viktorija received a full scholarship to enter the master's program at Berklee Valencia. From 2013 to 2016 Viktorija was teaching at USFQ College of Music (Berklee Partner school), in Quito, Ecuador.
In 2016, she moved back to Europe and has since been actively recording, performing, and teaching while living in Valencia, Spain.
Jazz in Europe (Jan-2018) The whole album is very well executed, with good arrangements and she really has achieved what she out to. Superb musicians that support each other collectively. - Review of Stories
Downbeat (UK, Oct-2019) (...) truly international in intention and flavour. Pilatovic's vision comes through on her angular composition and arrangements juxtaposed with a fluid and reaching vocal style. - review of The Only Light
Discópolis (Radio 3, RNE, Nov-2019) Not only does she sing well, but she composes divinely in anunconventional way. There is a lot of wisdom here! -José Miguel López, Spain
Rarely does one encounter the extreme talent, intelligence and drive to compose, arrange and perform, as I have witnessed in the voice and musicianship of jazz vocalist Viktorija Pilatovic. -J.D. Walter (singer, USA)
Viktorija is one of the most talented musicians I have met in recent years, I think she is poised to write important pages in the history of this music. - Perico Sambeat (saxophonist and flutist, Spain)