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2004-Present
University of Helsinki, PhD research project Individuality and Standards in Performance Practices of the 20th Century: A Historical and Semiotic Approach to Interpreting Beethoven. Research supervisor: Professor Eero Tarasti.
2001-2003
Lithuanian Academy of Music, Faculty of Piano and Musicology, Department of Music Theory and History, MA Degree course in musicology. Master’s thesis: Reception and Interpretation of Works by Ludwig van Beethoven. Performances of the Piano Sonata in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2. Research adviser: Rūta Goštautienė.
2001-2002
University of Helsinki, Faculty of Arts, Department of Musicology. Studies under SOCRATES/ERASMUS programme. Supervisor: Professor Eero Tarasti.
1997-2001
Lithuanian Academy of Music, Faculty of Piano and Musicology, Department of Music Theory and History, BA Degree course in musicology. Bachelor’s thesis: Piano Art in the 20th Century: Performing Traditions, Canons, Great Pianists. Research adviser: Rūta Goštautienė.
1996-1997
Lithuanian Academy of Music, Faculty of Piano and Musicology, Department of Piano, Piano studies under Professor Veronika Vitaitė.
1965-1996
Juozas Naujalis’ College of Music in Kaunas, Graduation Certificate of Secondary Education and Diploma in Piano.
2007
Southeast European Center for Semiotic Studies at the New Bulgarian University (Sozopol, Bulgaria), September 8-18, 2007. The 13th Early fall school in semiotics
“Sociosemiotics”.
2006
Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre (Vilnius), November 27, 2006. International seminar for opera critics “Staging and Consuming Opera in the Age of Global Media”.
2005
Orpheus Institute (Ghent, Belgium), March 30-April 2, 2005. International Orpheus Academy for Music Theory “The Era of Beethoven and Schubert”.
2004
Vilnius International Piano Master Classes, July 16-24, 2004. Professors: Ian Fountain (Great Britain), Vera Gornostayeva (Russia), Veronika Vitaitė and Petras Geniušas (Lithuania).
2003
University of Helsinki, November 13-17, 2003. 9th International Doctoral and Postdoctoral Seminar on Musical Semiotics.
2002
Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland, Lugano), August 19-28, 2002. Seminar “Zoning In: Motivating the Musical Mind”.
2008
Vilnius-Kaunas,
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Kaunas University of Technology,
10th International Congress on Musical Signification Before and After
Music. Member of the organising committee. Moderator of the session Music
Performance and Interpretation. Paper presented: "Signifying
music and the self: interpretative decisions of a performer". October
21-25, 2008.
Kallio-Kuninkala Festival, Järvenpää (Finland), Symposium in Zoomusicology: The nightingale song between art and research. Invited paper: "Centuries of nightingale-inspired music". June 12-13, 2008.
University of Helsinki, 12th International Doctoral and Postdoctoral Seminar on Musical Semiotics.
Member of the organising committee. Paper presented: “Musical performance revisited: endo- and exo- signs in the art of a performer”. April 15-19, 2008.
Vilnius, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Academic conference 75 Years to
LAMT: Development of Art Creation, Science and Pedagogy. Paper presented together with Rima Povilionienė: “A Look at PhD Studies in Musicology: Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and University of Helsinki”. April 11, 2008.
2007
Vilnius, Lithuanian Composers’ Union, 40th Baltic musicological conference
Poetics and Politics of Place. Paper presented: “The Concept of ‘School’ in the Globalised Culture: Some Observations on the Lithuanian Piano Performance Tradition”. October 17-20, 2007.
Helsinki-Imatra, 9th World Congress of Semiotics Communication: Understanding / Misunderstanding. Papers presented: “Whose Story is this? Musical Canon as Narrated by its Interpreters” and “Semiotic Identity of a Performer: Endo- and Exo-signs in the Art of Interpreting Music”. June 11-17, 2007.
Aveiro, University of Aveiro, Performa’07: Conference on Performance Studies. Paper presented: “Schools of Performance as Markers of Cultural Identities”. May 10-12, 2007.
2006
Roma, University of Roma Tor Vergata, ICMS9: Ninth International Congress on Musical Signification Music, Senses, Body.
Moderator of the session Performance, Gesture, Interpretation. Paper presented: „Body is a Message: Performer’s Corporeality“. September 19-23, 2006.
Imatra, International Summer School for Semiotics and Structural Studies (Seminar Semiotics of Music and Mediation). Paper presented: „Mediating Musical Performance: Styles, Identities, Reproduction“. June 10-14, 2006.
University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence. International colloquium for Existential Semiotics of Music. Invited paper: “When a Few Me-Tones Meet: Beethoven ŕ la russe”. April 2-4, 2006.
2005
University of Helsinki, 11th International Doctoral and Postdoctoral Seminar on Musical Semiotics. Paper presented: “The Russian Beethoven? Fraternity, Equality, and Other Appassionate”. November 6-12, 2005.
Imatra, International Summer School for Semiotics and Structural Studies. (Seminar New Media, New Semiotics, New Mediation?) Paper presented: ‘Performer as Mediator’: How We Got Into the Concept, and How to Get Out? June 11-19, 2005.
Warsaw, 9th International Symposium Beethoven between the Music of North and South. Invited paper: The Role of ‘School’ in Beethoven Performance: Lithuanian Tradition. March 21-22, 2005.
2004
Vilnius, Lithuanian Composers’ Union, 38th Baltic Musicological Conference “Musical Work: Boundaries and Interpretations“. October 21-23, 2004. Poster presentation: Creation and History of the “Beethoven Myth”.
Paris, Sorbonne University, ICMS8: Eight International Congress on Musical Signification. Paper presented: Interpreting Beethoven: The Lithuanian Tradition. October 3-8, 2004.
10th International Doctoral and Postdoctoral Seminar on Musical Semiotics (Imatra). Paper presented: Interpreting Beethoven: The Lithuanian Tradition. June 3-5, 2004.
Lithuanian Academy of Music, Academic conference “Interaction of Art and Individual: Creation, Interpretation, Pedagogy”. Paper presented: A Canon of Western Music: Origins and Influences. April 21, 2004
Apart from my main professional activities, such as scholarly research and editing, I have been involved into several other fields of musicological work:
Writing
Since the year 1997 until now, I am active as a free-lance reviewer on musical topics. To this day,
around 100 articles published in the weeklies 7 meno dienos, Literatūra ir menas, the monthlies Muzikos barai, Kultūros barai, Hortus musicus, Synkooppi (Finland), newsletter Lithuanian Music Link, magazine Lithuanian Music Review, scholarly magazine Lithuanian Musicology, the 2nd
volume of the Lithuanian Encyclopedia of Music. Regular commissions to write music criticisms, active involvement in Lithuanian and international musical life. For more details, see Publications.
Teaching
March-April 2009 – course Semiotics of Stardom. Musicians as Depicted
in Other Arts at the University of Helsinki, Department of Musicology.
20.2.2009 – invited lecture Music as Propaganda. The Many Political Faces of Ludwig van Beethoven for Semiotics and Ideologies course by Ass. Prof. Dario Martinelli at the University of Helsinki.
15.10.2008. – lecture for music teachers "Authenticity" in the art of music performance and interpretations of early music at the Study Center for Music Teaching, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.
Since 2008 – author and curator of the distant learning web-course History and theory of music interpretation. Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, project Development of the system of music teachers’ qualification enhancement by realizing the possibilities for all-life learning via innovative methods and forms.
Since 2008 – lecturer at the University of Helsinki, Department of Musicology. Course: Medium matters: Semiotics of musical performance.
7.11.2006 – invited lecture on performance practices Medium Matters for Media semiotics course by MA lector Merja Bauters at the Department of Aesthetics, University of Helsinki.
Since Fall 2006 –
junior lecturer position at the Department of music theory and history, Lithuanian academy of music and theatre. Course:
History and theory of music interpretation.
Media
2006-2007 - Co-editor and co-host of the KSL-Lähiradio program
SemioRadio (Helsinki, Finland).
Since the year 2003, I was editor and/or narrator of a few TV and radio broadcasts for the Lithuanian National Radio and Television. I was invited to some others as a guest musicologist.
February 1, 2003, Lithuanian National Radio and Television. Musical TV journal Tegyvuoja klasika, „Heroic style of Ludwig van Beethoven“;
March 8, 2003, Lithuanian National Television. Musical TV journal Tegyvuoja klasika, “How the dreams come true: pianist Andrius Žlabys”.
April 2004, Lithuanian National Television. Experimental broadcast on the musical project Opera in da House by Linas Rimša.
April 2004, Lithuanian National Television 2nd Programme, interview with the Japanese noise musician Masami Akita, a.k.a. Merzbow.
October 27, 2004, Lithuanian National Radio Classical Programme. Mažoji studija, “Glenn Gould”.
December 8, 2006, Lithuanian National Radio Classical Programme. Muzikinis pastišas, „Heroic style of Ludwig van Beethoven“.
Translating
Significant published translations from English to Lithuanian:
Dario Martinelli, “Ennio Morricone: „Oskaras“ didžiajam komponavimo strategui“, Muzikos barai, 1-2, 2007.
Gabrielius Alekna, Preface for the First edition of piano works by Vytautas Bacevičius, two vols., ed. by Gabrielius Alekna. Vilnius: Muzikos informacijos ir leidybos centras, 2006.
Terry Eagleton, „Maksimaliai postmodernus spektaklis“, Omni laikas, June 8, 2005. (Translated from: Terry Eagleton, The ultimate postmodern spectacle, The Guardian, May 25, 2005).
Dario Martinelli, „Semiotinis tyrimas: zoomuzikologijos metodikos ir problemos“, Kultūros barai, 6 (451), 2002, p. 66-71.
David
Dubal, “Glennas Gouldas”, Muzikos barai, 9-10 (272-273), 2000, p. 46-48. (Translated from: David Dubal, Reflections from the Keyboard, interview with Glenn Gould).
Composers' web pages
Information collected and prepared for the database on Lithuanian composers and their works of the Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre. Internet sites were prepared on the following composers: Marius Baranauskas, Rasa Bartkevičiūtė, Zita Bružaitė, Diana Čemerytė, Vytautas Germanavičius, Jurgis Juozapaitis, Žibuoklė Martinaitytė-Rosaschi, Rytis Mažulis, Arūnas Navakas, Leonas Povilaitis, Antanas Rekašius, Nomeda Valančiūtė, Audronė Žigaitytė-Nekrošienė. See http://www.mic.lt/index2.html.
Organisations and committments
Since 2008
Member of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union, Musicological section.
Since 2007
Member of the scientific committee of UMWEB publishing series.
Since 2003
Member of the International Project on Musical Signification.
Since 2002
Member of the Lithuanian Musicians’ Union.
Since 2000
Member of the editorial board of musical monthly Muzikos barai.