Chamber choir “Te Deum” of Kaunas St. Michael the Archangel (Garrison) Church

The chamber choir “Te Deum” was founded in 1990 in the Kaunas Christ Resurrection Church, Lithuania, on the initiative of Asta Vištakyte-Armonienė. The choir chanted during feast days and other religious feasts in the churches of Lithuanian towns. In 1992 the choir participated in Youth days in Czestochowa, Poland during the visit of Pope John Paul ΙΙ. In 1996 Audrius Petrauskas became the director of the choir. Since 2003 the choir chants at Kaunas St. Michael the Archangel (Garrison) Church during the summer. In 2004 and 2007 “Te Deum” was the laureate of the sacral music competition “Cantate Domino”. In 2006 they performed together with the wind orchestra of Kaunas Air Force in Kaunas Town Hall Square. In 2009 the choir found success in the choir competition “Lithuanian Voices”, broadcast in Lithuania and worldwide by Lithuanian National Television.

The conductor of the choir, Audrius Petrauskas (born 1970) graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and received the choir conducting Master’s degree (under the guidance of Professor P. Bingelis). Presently he is a singer in the Kaunas State Choir.