GENERAL MANAGEMENT
Born into a musical family, Lithuanian pianist Onutė Gražinytė began her education at the age of five and was soon after admitted to the renowned National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Arts in Vilnius. She continued her education at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hanover, as well as the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin in the class of Prof. Kirill Gerstein.
The young artist can already look back on many performances in Lithuania as well as internationally, including invitations from Klaipėda Chamber Orchestra, Kaunas Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Alicante Philharmonic Orchestra Youth Orchestra, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg and Orchestre National de Lyon.
In addition to her solo and orchestral projects, Onutė is also a distinguished and enthusiastic chamber musician.
Recent highlights include performances with her sister, conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, playing Alexander Scriabin’s Piano Concerto with the Sinfonieorchester Basel, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in works by Mieczysław Weinberg and Vakhtang Kakhidze, and Robert…
Born into a musical family, Lithuanian pianist Onutė Gražinytė began her education at the age of five and was soon after admitted to the renowned National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Arts in Vilnius. She continued her education at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hanover, as well as the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin in the class of Prof. Kirill Gerstein.
The young artist can already look back on many performances in Lithuania as well as internationally, including invitations from Klaipėda Chamber Orchestra, Kaunas Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Alicante Philharmonic Orchestra Youth Orchestra, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg and Orchestre National de Lyon.
In addition to her solo and orchestral projects, Onutė is also a distinguished and enthusiastic chamber musician.
Recent highlights include performances with her sister, conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, playing Alexander Scriabin’s Piano Concerto with the Sinfonieorchester Basel, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in works by Mieczysław Weinberg and Vakhtang Kakhidze, and Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto with the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra. Onutė has also appeared at the Moravian Autumn Festival with Kremerata Baltica and at the Internationale Schostakowitsch Tage Gohrisch. She was invited to the renowned KlavierOlymp in Bad Kissingen 2024, with a return for a recital in summer 2025.
In the 2025/26 season, Onutė will perform a chamber music concert at the Gewandhaus Leipzig, reunite with her sister for a debut with the Orquesta Nacional de España performing Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto, and make her debut at the Wiener Konzerthaus in the Musik und Dichtung zu Mittag series, among other engagements.
In 2020, Onutė collaborated with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra and released her first CD with works by Arvo Pärt titled Lamentate. The album received praise from foreign critics, including BBC Music Magazine, Pizzicato, Diapason d'or and Diapason d'or Arte. Arvo Pärt himself expressed his admiration for Onutė Gražinytė: “[She] is a pianist who, despite her young age, has already reached a remarkable musical maturity. I appreciate her musical sensitivity in performing my works.”
This performance [...] is one of the best I have ever heard, delicately balancing on the tightrope of subtlety and power.
