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Vilnius Festival in Vilnius
Vilnius's flagship classical music festival, founded in 1997 by the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society and staged every June across the Old Town, blending historic orchestral and chamber repertoire with contemporary composition and drawing both international touring musicians and Lithuania's own strong classical and choral tradition.
Vilnius Festival has anchored the city's classical music calendar since 1997, when the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society laid its foundations with a mission that has stayed remarkably consistent across the decades since: preserving historic musical values while still making deliberate room for contemporary composition.