Ieva Pranskutė (violin)

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Ieva Pranskutė  joined the Grammy award winning Kremerata Baltica, a chamber orchestra of musicians from the Baltic states led by the famous violinist Gidon Kremer since 2012. While touring in one of the most prestiges halls in the world, she has  played with G. Kremer himself as well as other famous artists, such as Mischa Maisky, Martha Argerich, Gábor Boldoczki, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Andrei Korobeinikov, Heinrich Schiff, Sergei Nakariakov, M. W. Pletnev, Yulianna Avdeeva and others.

Ieva Pranskutė was born in Vilnius, Lithuania and started playing the violin at the age of five. Only a year later, she played her solo debut with the Lithuanian chamber orchestra. Following that, Ieva Pranskutė enrolled in the National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art where she attended classes taught by Beata Šmidtienė. In 2010 she was a student of Ingrida Armonaitė who teaches at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater. From 2011 to 2017 Ieva Pranskutė has taken up studies in Vienna, Austria, in the class of Christian Altenburger at the University of Music and Performing Arts. Since 2017, she has been studying in the class of Pavel Vernikov at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna and in the class of Johannes Meissl member of the Artis-Quartett. In the years 2015–2016 Ieva Pranskutė was a visiting student at the Lyon CNSMD (National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Lyon, France) in the class of Marianne Piketty.

As an enthusiastic chamber musician Ieva participated in the international festivals of classical music, such as “MUSIQUE AUX QUATRES HORIZONS” in France, “Wien Modern”, “Steirisches Kammermusik Festival”, “ISA Festival” in Austria, “Holland Music Sessions” in the Netherlands, “Accademia e Festival Internazionale di Musica di Cagliari” in Italy, “Academie-villecroze” in France, “National Young String Quartet Weekend” in UK, European Parliament in Brussel and in the famous Wigmore Hall in London. She  has cooperated with such artists as Vilmos Szabadi, Lieke te Winkel, Marianne Piketty, Jan Talich, Romain Garioud, Lars Anders Tomter, Markus Schirmer, André Cazalet, Mislav Brajković.

Since 2014 Ieva Pranskutė has been a member of the Doreen Quartet participating in various projects, master classes and playing in prestigious Austrian concert halls, such as Wiener Konzerthaus, Wiener Musikverein, F. Schubert Geburthous, Austrian National library, Altes Rathaus. 2018 Ieva has played solo in Vienna Hofburg “FESTAKT GEGEN GEWALT UND RASSISMUS” event.

2015 Ieva Pranskutė won the contest to become an artist of the British music organization Live Music Now, established by the legendary violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin.

She has been participating in diverse music projects as a soloist and chamber musician since her early age. Not only has she played with the Lithuanian chamber orchestra and other orchestras in Lithuania, but has also worked with many world-famous masters such as professors of violin Igor Ozim, Pavel Vernikov, Dora Schwarzberg, Shmuel Ashkenazi, Stephan Picard, Sergei Malov, Petru Munteanu, Sergei Krylov and Tanja Becker-Bender, as well as cellists Heinrich Schiff, Reinhard Latzko and Chu Yi-Bing.

Pranskutė holds various titles in international competitions (e.g. “Olympo Musicale”, the International Competition of Saulius Sondeckis , “Pavasario Sonata” ). Together with cellist Mislav Brajković she won “Kodály Award” for an outstanding performance of Duo, op. 7, at the ISA Prague-Vienna-Budapest festival in 2017.

In 2018 together with Xylos trio members Ieva has won Fidelio competition in Vienna.

Among many concert activities Ieva is cooperating with other artists and had a concert tour in India called “Die Suche nach der Leidenschaft Februar 2019” and a concert tour in the Netherlands with Xylos Trio. She is often invited to be a concertmaster in the different projects.

As an active violinist performing and studying in Vienna, Ieva Pranskutė has received special acknowledgment from the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Vienna for promoting Lithuanian culture internationally.