Mixed Chamber Choir of Vilnius University Hospital “Santara”

The choir was organized due to the initiative of several active neurologists in October 2018. The participants of the choir are doctors, nurses, and other employees of the hospital, in whose lives music plays an important part. 

The first concert took place in December 2018. 

The choir, led by Gabriele Rastenyte-Malisauskiene, performs traditional and contemporary settings of Lithuanian folk songs, as well as songs of Lithuanian composers, introducing both secular and ecclesiastical vocal music to Lithuanian society. 

The group represented Lithuania in the following international festivals: 

June 2019 - International choir competition „Auksinė Šalčios juosta 2019“, 3rd place. 

July 2021 – XV International Festival of Arts „MUZITE“ („The Muses“), Sozopol, Bulgaria, 1st place. 

November 2021 – Lithuanian Juozas Gudavičius choir competition „Kur giria žaliuoja“, 3rd place. 

Juny 2022 – International choir festival „Kaunas Cantat“.