Saulė Rinkevičiūtė graduated from M. K. Čiurlionis School of Arts (she studied with Undinė Jagėlaitė).
When she was eleven, she started giving solo concerts (together with the Lithuanian State Symphony
and St. Christopher Chamber Orchestras as well as Klaipėda Musical Theatre Orchestra).
Saulė Rinkevičiūtė is a laureate of the George Enescu International Competition (2000); she was
awarded a diploma of Balys Dvarionas National Competition (2002) and won the 2nd prize at the
Raimundas Katilius National Competition (2003). The soloist has been actively participating in various
master classes held by A. Fisher and D. Stulgyte-Schmahlenberg. Saulė Rinkevičiūtė attended classes
in London with the famous violin teacher N. Boyarskaya in 2003.

In 2005 Saulė entered Gnesin Academy of Music in Moscow. Just in one year (2006) she was offered
Russian state scholarship and was invited to study at Moscow P.I.Tchaikovsky Conservatoire with a
famous violinist Maksim Fedotov. Saulė Rinkevičiūtė graduated with honors in 2010.

Currently young violinist has concerts in Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, Belourus and South Korea
with different orchestras, i.e. Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Novosibirsk State Symphony
Orchestra, Ulyanovsk State Symphony Orchestra, Saint Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra and
others. She takes part in various festivals and series of concerts where such celebrities as Natalia
Gutman, Nina Kogan, Alexander Paley take part as well.

The soloist’s repertoire includes opuses for violin with orchestra by P. Tchaikovsky, J. Brahms, J.
Sibelius, D.Shostakovich, S. Prokofiev, M. Bruch, C.Saint-Saens, M. Ravel, J. S. Bach, A, Vivaldi, F.
Mendelssohn, H. Wieniawski, E. Lalo, A. Khachaturian, P. de Sarasate, E. Chausson, etc.

In 2005 Saulė started performing with her sister pianist Rūta. This duo has performed F.
Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Violin, Piano and Chamber Orchestra. Since then they have been
successfully performing in Lithuania and abroad. In 2007 The Queen Symphony for choir, soloists and
orchestra performed by the State Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Gintaras Rinkevicius) while
sisters performed the violin and piano parts, was extremely well received by audience. The 4th year
in a row this symphony is one of the most successful projects in Lithuania and abroad.

‘The violinist Saulė Rinkevičiūtė has a wonderful musical intuition and can understand and perform

complex and profound opuses for violin convincingly …,’ this is how music critics refer to the young
violinist.