Dovilė Bagdonaitė
Dovilė Bagdonaitė was born in 1982.
EDUCATION
2000 graduated from M. K. Čiurlionis Art Gymnasium, Prof. Veronika Vitaitė‘s piano class.
2003 studied piano at the Hanover Higher School of Music and Theatre with Prof. B. Berthold.
2004 graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, BA in piano.
2006 awarded MA in piano and pedagogy at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.
Currently studying piano for practice-based PhD at the LMTA with Prof. V. Vitaitė.
COMPETITIONS
1999 International N. Rubinstein Piano Competition, France, I prize.
2001 International Piano and Chamber Ensemble Competition Music without Walls, Lithuania, I prize.
2001 Competition for Piano Accompanists at the LMTA, III prize.
2002 Competition in Performing Chamber Music by Lithuanian Composers, Lithuania, III prize.
2003 International Competition for Vocalists and Accompanists 21st Century Art, The Ukraine, I prize.
2003 International Competition for Student Accompanists, Lithuania, Diploma.
2005 International Piano and Chamber Ensemble Competition Music without Walls, Lithuania, I prize.
CREATIVE ACTIVITIES
Dovilė Bagdonaitė has participated in various international and national piano competitions. She has given many concerts solo and with various performers. She has mostly given concerts at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, also at the Vilnius City Hall and various cities of Lithuania: Druskininkai, Šiauliai, Klaipėda, Kaunas, etc. She has performed solo and also as an accompanist at the Hanover Higher School of Music and Theatre and other venues in Hanover. She has given several concerts in Fehmarn (Germany). A favourable review of this performance was published in a Fehmarn daily.
She has given quite a few concerts together with soloist Vladas Bagdonas; she has also helped with recording his CD.
Bagdonaitė has participated in festivals: International Festival of Classical Music 2001-2003, Pearls of the Silver Age, Choir and Vocal Music Festival A Seacoast Song, Festival of Pupils of the Winds Departments of Vilnius Music Schools Let’s Rejoice Together. In 2006 she participated in the festival Druskininkai Summer with Čiurlionis and the XIII Festival of Professional Music in Visaginas I Sing Lithuania.
Lithuanian Composers
Feliksas Bajoras
Suite of Stories for voice and piano
Vytautas Barkauskas
„Sonata subita“ for violin and piano
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
Prelude in B flat minor (VL 169)
Balys Dvarionas
A Starlet for voice and piano
Juozas Gruodis
Spells for voice and piano
Aleksandras Kačanauskas
How Lovely for voice and piano
Juozas Pakalnis
Lament for violin and piano
Stasys Šimkus
Is That Hut Mossgrown for voice and piano
Stasys Vainiūnas
Eight Moods, Op.43 for piano
Chamber Works
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata for violin and piano No.5 in F major, „Spring”, op.24
François Borne
Carmen Fantasy for flute & piano (or orchestra)
Johannes Brahms
Sonata for violin and piano No.1 in G major
Ernest Chausson
„Poem“ op.25 for violin and piano
Manuel de Falla
Danza Espanola, for orchestra (from "La Vida Breve")
Francesco Geminiani
Sonata for violin and piano in C minor
Jules Massenet
Elegy for violin and piano
Olivier Messiaen
„Le Merle Noir“ for flute and piano
Sergei Prokofiev
Legend for violin and piano
Pablo de Sarasate
Zigeunerweisen, for violin & piano (or orchestra) ("Gypsy Airs"), Op. 20
Franz Schubert
Sonata for violin and piano in A major, D.574
Jean Sibelius
Nocturne for violin and piano
Antonio Vivaldi
Sonata for violin and Clavier op.2 No.1
Carl Maria von Weber
Introduction Theme and Variations for clarinet and piano
Voice and Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach
Aria “Komm susses Kreuz , so will ich sagen“, BWV 244
Claude Debussy
„Five Songs“ w. P.Bourget
Enrique Granados
Tonadillas al estilo antiguo, songs (10) for voice & piano, H. 136
Franz Schubert
“Die Forelle“ op.32 D.550
Robert Schumann
„Dichterliebe“ op.48
Hugo Wolf
„Die Sproede“
Solo Works
Johann Sebastian Bach
English suite in A minor BWV 807
Johannes Brahms
Intermezzos (3), op.117
Intermezzo op.11
Frederic Chopin
Fantasy in F minor, op.49
Alberto Ginastera
Piano Sonata No.1, Op. 22
Danzas argentinas, 3 pieces for piano, Op. 2
Heitor Villa–Lobos
„As Bonecas“
Paul Hindemith
„Preludium und Fuge“ No.1 in C
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsodie in A minor , S.244
Sergei Prokofiev
Sarcasmes, op.17
Saint–Saens – Liszt
„Danse Macabre“
Piano Four Hands
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 10 for orchestra in E minor B. 147/2 (Op. 72/2)
Slavonic Dance No. 8 for orchestra in G minor B. 83/8 (Op. 46/8)
Two Pianos
Muzio Clementi
Sonata in B major
Charlie Parker
„Now‘s the Time“
George Shearing
„Lullaby at Birdland“
Concertos
Frederic Chopin
Concerto no.2 in F minor, op.21
Camille Saint–Saens
Concerto No. 2 in G minor
Concert in Stasys Vainiūnas House, 17 01 2007
J.Brahms Intermezzo op.117
F.Chopin Fantasy in F minor, op.49
C.Saint–Saens–F.Liszt „Danse Macabre“
Concert in sanatorium „Lietuva”, Druskininkai, 03 08 2006
J.Brahms Sonata for violin and piano No.1 in G major
J.Pakalnis „Lament“
P.de Sarasate Zigeunerweisen, for violin & piano (or orchestra) ("Gypsy Airs"), Op. 20
Concert in Vilnius Town Hall, 11 04 2005
G.Verdi Aria „Ella giammai m‘amo...Domiro sol“ from opera „Don Carlos“
Concert in Juodkrantė, Evangelic Lutheran Church, 16 08 2004
S.Simkus Is That Hut Mossgrown for voice and piano
A.Kacanauskas How Lovely for voice and piano
M.K.Ciurlionis Prelude in B flat minor (VL 169)
G.B.Pergolesi excerpts from opera "La serva padrona"
A.Ginastera Argentine Dance
E.Tozelli Tearjerker serenade
A.Raudonikis Love Elegy
N.Oliviero Hot Song
Concert in Hannover, 01 07 2003
P.Hindemith „Preludium und Fuge“ Nr.1 in C
J.Brahms „Drei Intermezzi“ op.117
F.Liszt „Ungarische rhapsodie“ Nr.11
Concert in Vilnius Town Hall, 04 06 2001
J.Massenet „Elegy“ for cello and piano