page_title: Music of Lithuania
section_title: Classical music
hierarchical_section_title: Music of Lithuania / Classical music
caption_attribution_description: English: Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at the Snape Maltings Concert Hall during the Aldeburgh Festival, 2017.
context_page_description: Music of Lithuania refers to all forms of music associated with Lithuania, which has a long history of the folk, popular and classical musical development. Music was an important part of polytheistic, pre-Christian Lithuania – rituals were accompanied by music instruments and singing, deeds of the heroes and those who didn't return from the war were celebrated in songs.
context_section_description: Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (September 22 [O.S. September 10] 1875 in Varėna—April 10 [O.S. March 28] 1911 in Pustelnik near Warsaw) was a Lithuanian painter and composer. During his short life he created about 200 pieces of music. His works have had profound influence on modern Lithuanian culture.
  Čiurlionis studied piano and composition at the Warsaw Conservatory (1894–1899). Later he attended composition lectures at the Leipzig Conservatory (1901–1902). His symphonic poems In the Forest (Miške) and The Sea (Jūra) were performed only posthumously.
  The Čiurlionis String Quartet performs in Lithuania and abroad. Every several years junior performers from Lithuania and neighbouring countries take part in The Čiurlionis Competition.
  Modern classical composers emerged in seventies - Bronius Kutavičius, Feliksas Bajoras, Osvaldas Balakauskas, Onutė Narbutaitė, Vidmantas Bartulis and others. Most of those composers explored archaic Lithuanian music and its harmonic combination with modern minimalism and neoromanticism.
  Osvaldas Balakauskas (born 1937, Miliūnai) Graduated from the Vilnius Pedagogical Institute in 1961, attended Boris Lyatoshinsky's composition class at Kiev Conservatory in 1969. From 1992 to 1994 Balakauskas was ambassador of Lithuania and in 1996 he was awarded with the Lithuanian National Award, the highest artistic and cultural distinction in Lithuania. He is currently head of the Composition Department of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. His output consists of symphonies, concertos, chamber and instrumental music.
  Conductor and music director of City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla is known for her flamboyance and steely poise. She is also in top 5 of woman conductors.
  The New Ideas Chamber Orchestra NICO and Synaesthesis playing new academic music.
  In 1996 Music Information Centre Lithuania (MICL) was founded. It collects, promotes and shares information on Lithuanian musical culture.
  Bronius Kutavičius 
  Juozas Gruodis 
  Stasys Vainiūnas 
  Kazimieras Viktoras Banaitis
  Vidmantas Bartulis 
  Feliksas Bajoras 
  Jonas Nabažas 
  Vytautas Barkauskas 
  Julius Juzeliūnas 
  Eduardas Balsys 
  Antanas Rekašius 
  Jeronimas Kačinskas 
  Giedrius Kuprevičius 
  Vytautas Bacevičius 
  Šarūnas Nakas 
  New Ideas Chamber Orchestra NICO
  lt:Justė Janulytė 
  Vytautas V. Jurgutis 
  Ričardas Kabelis 
  Dominykas Digimas 
  Rytis Mažulis 
  Faustas Latėnas 
  Algirdas Klova 
  Giedrius Puskunigis 
  Onutė Narbutaitė
caption: Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at the Aldeburgh Festival in 2017
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