The Christopher Summer Festival is the largest and one of the most impressive summer music festivals in Lithuania, and runs for two months (July to August). During this time, over 50 original concert events are presented to the public, taking place in different spaces in Vilnius and other Lithuanian districts.

This festival does not easily fit into any stylistic frame – its motto being „all genres are good, except the boring ones”. So, alongside classical music masterpieces there is jazz, world music, experimental projects, and traditional organ, guitar and piano music cycles.

Having naturally matured into a large international event whose programme is oriented towards audiences from a broad social spectrum and a variety of ages, the festival has continually fine-tuned its structure to the current principle of „festivals within a festival”. They are the now traditional guitar and organ music cycles Christopher’s Guitars and the Sacred Music Hours. Along with these concerts are the premiere, large scale productions and performances, world music concerts, jazz projects, performances in non-traditional spaces.

These examples reveal the festival’s main strength which distinguishes it from other music festivals – its versatility. It is due to this attribute that audiences from different social groups and with different cultural needs can find a concert to suit them, while European professionals, not needing to feel restricted to any stylistic frames, can allow themselves to realise their most unexpected ideas which are otherwise quashed or do not garner support in events of their chosen musical direction. An informal environment suited to creative expression, a summer atmosphere, and original projects – this is the face of the Christopher Summer Festival.

For more information and program, please visit www.kristupofestivaliai.lt/en