GIEDRĖ MURALYTĖ-ERIKSONĖ (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre)
23 November @15.00-18.00 in B-315
24 November @11.00-12.30 lecture “20th-Century British Composers” in B-217 and @15.00-18.00 masterclass in B-315
25 November @11.00-16.00 in B-315

Giedrė Muralytė-Eriksonė is a pianist, collaborative pianist, and lecturer at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, who began her musical studies at the Juozas Naujalis Music Gymnasium under Ligija Rinkevičienė and continued at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre with Professor Halina Radvilaitė. As part of the Erasmus exchange programme, she also studied at the Ionian University in Corfu, Greece, under Professor L. Vassiliadis.

In 2008, she obtained a Licentiate in Arts degree from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, where she studied with Associate Professor Virginija Dabkutė and Professor Petras Geniušas. She subsequently pursued doctoral studies under Professor Irena Uss-Armonienė, completing her artistic doctorate in 2020 with a dissertation entitled Recomposition of Henry Purcell’s Music and the Realisation of His Creative Principles in Benjamin Britten’s Vocal Cycles.

As a soloist, Muralytė-Eriksonė has participated in and received awards at international competitions in Italy, France, and Lithuania. As a collaborative pianist, she has won first prizes at international competitions in Finland, Turkey, and Georgia. She has extensive experience performing with Lithuanian and international singers at festivals and concerts across Europe, including in Greece, Italy, Georgia, Turkey, Finland, and Latvia, as well as in her native Lithuania.

Muralytė-Eriksonė has worked in the Singing Department of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre since 2005 and has also been a lecturer in the Accompaniment Department since 2021. Her students have received awards at international competitions in Georgia and Lithuania.

Alongside her teaching and performing activities, she is actively involved in academic research and has presented papers at international conferences in Lithuania, Latvia, and Ukraine. She chaired sessions at the Music Science Today: The Permanent and the Changeable conference at Daugavpils University in 2022 and 2023. Since 2022, she has been a member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Art and Design.

Her research interests include the vocal music of Benjamin Britten and Henry Purcell, connections between their works, performance interpretation, and analytical approaches to music.