JUOZAS RIMAS - OBOE, PIANO AND STRINGS

index page - Free MP3 downloads, CDs, Bio Info, Tour Dates, Lyrics and More!": "Juozas Rimas graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music in 1965 and became the oboe section leader in the State Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. The same year he started postgraduate studies by correspondence at the former Leningrad Conservatory. From the very beginning of his career, Juozas Rimas worked on the status of the oboe as a solo instrument. He was the first one to play an oboe recital in the former SU and probably whole Eastern Europe (back in 1972) and ever since has been one of the most active soloists in Lithuania. The oboist has given hundreds of concerts, radio and television performances on the socialist side of the iron curtain, performed with G. Kremer, G. Rozhdestvensky, all major Lithuanian orchestras, recorded 5 solo LPs and premiered more than 40 Lithuanian and foreign authors' works, some of them written specially for him. Juozas Rimas is professor of woodwinds at the Lithuanian Academy of Music. "