Lithuanian-born pianist Evelina Puzaite is an internationally recognised performer of natural sensitivity and strong charisma. She is in constant demand as both a soloist and as a chamber musician. Evelina regularly performs at the most prestigious venues including the Barbican, Wigmore Hall and South Bank Centre. Evelina has won numerous prizes, including First Prize at the Rubinstein Piano Competition in Paris, First Prize at the Tel-Hai International Piano Competition in Israel and many others. After unanimously winning the Abstract Securities Landor Competition in 2006, Evelina was awarded a long term recording contract with Landor Records.

Evelina appears regularly on television and radio in her native Lithuania and recently she appeared on BBC 3 Radio ‘In Tune’. Evelina has performed extensively throughout Europe, including Italy, France, Greece, Sweden, Poland, Lithuania, as well as in Russia, Israel, and the USA. She has appeared with many prominant Orchestras and conductors including: Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra/ Sondeckis, Lithuanian Symphony Orchestra/Antoni Wit/Alan Buribaev/Cyril Diederich, Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra/Barry Wordsworth, GSMD Symphony Orchestra/David Angus, Guernsey Symphony Orchestra/ Stuart Startford, St. John‘s Chamber Orchestra/Nigel Wilkinson.

Evelina’s recital engagements have included performances at the Usedomer Music Festival in Germany, Festival di Londra in Italy, the first EPTA Festival in Cyprus, the Presteigne Festival in Wales and ‘Smart Concert Series’ Festival in Bulgaria (2012). She also performed at the opening concert of the Brighton Festival, YCAT/Landor Piano Festival at the Wigmore Hall and has collaborated with the Fine Arts Quartet at the Vilnius Festival in Lithuania.


Evelina’s exceptional musicality was first noticed at the Ciurlionis School of Arts. In 2001, and she was awarded the prestigious Baltic State Scholarship to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Professor Joan Havill. Evelina received a Masters Degree of Music in Music Performance with Distinction in 2006, and two years later she was awarded an Artists Fellowship at the GSMD.


Since 2010 Evelina is a member of ‘Cosima Piano Quintet’, which specialises mainly in piano quintets. In 2011 Evelina released an album of Robert Schumann's music in France, with fellow Lithuanian oboe player - Andrius Puskunigis. They appeared together in Edinburgh Festival.


Evelina’s debut at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (New York, 2012) was called ‘memorable’ and her own sonata - ‘refreshing novelty’.


In addition to her piano career, Evelina Puzaite is an avid writer and composer. Her first book Tempo Primo – a collection of short stories and poetic insights – was published in November 2008. Evelina has been recognized at the Grodno Composers’ Competition, where she was awarded the Second Prize, and her compositions for piano have been published several times in Lithuania. In 2010 Evelina composed and performed music for a documentary Lieknas by internationally acclaimed Lithuanian director Rimantas Gruodis.

‘...refreshing novelty... scintillating evening... clean, sterling performance, with plenty of power... Ms. Puzaite’s New York Debut was indeed memorable, and the interesting programming was a large part of it’.

Rorianne Schrade, Carnegie Hall, April 2012

'The bravura piano writing was entrusted to Evelina Puzaite, whose playing was as neat, glamorous and charming as her appearance'.

Richard Wilby, The Argus, Brighton Dome December 2011

'Puzaite showed herself a fearless pianist, in complete and poetic control of some thick textures'.

 John Allison, The Sunday Telegraph, October 2011

‘I wondered if the interval would ever get started as wave upon wave of applause washed across the concert hall in acknowlegement of her outstanding performance of Beethoven’s piano concerto No 3 in C minor... Captivating, sensitive, at times powerful, Miss Puzaite’s playing sounded as personal a statement as Beethoven’s deeply emotional concerto.‘   

Phil Dennett, Shoreham Herald, Brighton Dome February 2011

‘She tackled Beethoven's Piano Concerto in C Minor with a style at once sensuous and cunning... In Ms Puzaite's hands, it was like looking at a Turner painting -- all was light.‘

 John Keenan, The Argus, Brighton Dome February 2011

"The song world of Mendelssohn and Schumann was evoked again later in the evening, when the young Lithuanian pianist Evelina Puzaite began her recital with a no-holds-barred performance of Schumann's Sonata No 2 in G minor. It was refreshing to hear a pianist go for the emotional jugular of the piece, maximising its volatile imagination within a technique that made light of its pianistic challenges. In Prokofiev and Debussy, though, the gladiatorial competition-winner in Puzaite surfaced rather too relentlessly, but there was real excitement in the ferocity of her Kodály Dances of Marosszek."

"Ailish Tynan, Llyr Williams and Evelina Puzaite at the Wigmore Hall", Hilary Finch, "The Times", January 6, 2009

”A splendid debut...Puzaite is a winning guide...Puzaite seems to have a special relationship with Rachmaninov’s music. This and the Kodály are especially impressive.”

Colin Anderson, www.classicalsource.com 2007

".. her playing is always beautiful and technically accomplished in every way ...wonderful colours and textures ...maintaining absolute clarity in the most virtuosic and dense passagework"

Nicholas Salwey, International Record Review 2007

"...thrilling playing of real temperament"

Douglas Cooksey, Wigmore Hall Recital 2007, (www.classicalsource.com)

"Fluent and engaging ... a young pianist impresses"

Bryce Morrison, Gramophone 2007

"She played Liszt and Rachmaninov with power and brilliance"

Leslie East, Preserve Harmony 2006

"Here is a major talent on the threshold of her career"

Edward Clark, Presteigne Festival 2006, (www.classicalsource.com)