Daumantas Kirilauskas

Daumantas Kirilauskas (pianist) after finishing the Art School of M.K. Čiurlionis (1991) went on with his studies at Salzburg Mozarteum University, from which he graduated with the highest evaluation achieving the Art Master‘s Degree. His teachers were Liucija Drąsutienė (1984 – 1994) and the legendary Karl-Heinz Kämmerling (1994 – 2000).

Daumantas is the winner of many international prizes including the 1st prize in the International Maria Canals Competition of  Young Pianists, in Barcelona in 1991. The same year he received the diploma of the first International M.K. Čiurlionis‘ Pianists‘ Competition, the Grand-Prix  of the International Competition-Festival, Jazz Improvisation 1992 in Vilnius, also the diploma with the autograph of the Princess Diana of the New Port International Pianists’ Competition in  London, in 1994, also  the Boesendorfer prize in Vienna, in 1997. He was awarded with the premium of the Austrian Ministry of Culture, in 2000  and granted by the President Valdas Adamkus in 2005. 

Today Daumantas Kirilauskas is an associate professor in the piano department of Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy. 

He has released 5 solo albums and is constantly characterized as one of the most distinct, versatile and productive pianists of Lithuania.