Vilnius St. Bernardine Church’s School of Singing was founded in 1995 under the initiative of a Franciscan father Benediktas and the conductor Rita Kraucevičiūtė. Children start attending the school from the age of five. There they learn how to read music as well as to get deep into the secrets of singing and vocal. There are four choirs of different age groups. The main choir “Švento Pranciškaus paukšteliai” (Eng. The Birds of St. Francis) sings at the St. Mass and gives concerts successfully both in Lithuania and abroad (Latvia, Spain, Belgium). In 2002, the choir participated in the Festival of Children and Youth Choirs in Neerpelt, Belgium and won the second place. In 2004, a well-known Spanish festival “Festival Internacional de Órgano de León” invited the choir to participate in the festival where the birds of St. Francis fascinated the listeners. The repertoire consists works composers from various epochs. The repertoire is mostly comprised of sacral music. Rita Kraucevičiūtė was born in 1957. She studied choir conducting at Lithuanian National Conservatoire. She gained title concertmaster of the choir conducting department at Lithuanian National Conservatoire. She was the choirmaster of children choir of Lithuanian Radio and Television and girls choir VIRGO at Vilnius University. Since 1990 she has been the leader of her own choir LANGAS and of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Bernardine School of singing, established in 1995.