DIANA GALVYDYTE

Playing Max Bruch’s 1st violin concerto March 13th 2010

Diana has given a number of solo performances in the UK, Lithuania, Netherlands, Austria and Canada appearing with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Madeira Classical Orchestra, Sussex Symphony Orchestra, The New Professionals Orchestra, Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra, Charkov Symphony Orchestra and various Lithuanian orchestras. She has performed in venues such as Cadogan Hall, Wigmore Hall, Chamber Hall of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Theater Diligentia in the Hague, Konzerthaus in Vienna.

Diana was born in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1984. At the age of six she entered Ciurlionis Gymnasium of Art in Lithuania and in 2000 was invited to the Yehudi Menuhin School in England. She is currently studying at the Royal College of Music with Professor Natalia Boyarsky. Diana has also received coaching from Christian Tetzlaff, Mstislav Rostropovich, Zakhar Bron, Midori, Stefan Gheorghiu, Rudolf Koelman, Lewis Kaplan, Dora Schwarzberg, Petru Munteanu and Zvi Zeitlin.

Diana is a prize-winner of 15 international competitions including Hohenlohe in Germany, Kotorovich in Ukraine, and Remember Enescu in Romania. Recent successes include becoming a laureate of the International Jasha Heifetz Competition in Lithuania. She was a finalist in the Jeunesses Musicales Montreal International Competition and was awarded the prize for the best interpretation of the contemporary set work. In Denmark was also awarded the European Prize for Achievement.

Diana is a recipient of Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Foundation Award, Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Award, Hattori Foundation Award and Musicians Benevolent Fund Music Education Award. She is also a winner of the 2007 Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists, awarded by the Making Music Federation.

Due to her international performing success the president of the Lithuanian Republic, Algirdas Brazauskas, awarded Diana with a special commendation: ‘These awards are in recognition of your successful efforts in promoting our Homeland Lithuania throughout the World’.

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