DALIA BALSYTĖ (Leedu Muusika- ja Teatriakadeemia, Vilnius)
9. juunil kell 19.30-22.00 D-511
10. juunil kell 10.00-11.30 suur saal ja 16.00-19.00 B-317
11. juunil kell 15.00-18.00 D-209

Pianist Dalia Balsytė has been head of the Chamber Music Department of the  Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre since 2008. She is artistic director of the European Chamber Music Academy and actively involved in the European Chamber Music Teachers’ Association. She graduated in 1972 from the M. K. Čiurlionis School of the Arts and in 1977 from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, where she studied piano under Olga Šteinberg and chamber music under Kornelija Kalinauskaitė. From 1980 to 1983, she studied at the P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow under Tatyana Gaidamovich and Alexander Bonduriansky.

She has performed solo with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra and the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, and with various different chamber ensembles. She was the initiator of the International Lithuanian Composers Chamber Music Performance Competition in 1999 organizing it still. She has been teaching at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre since 1979 holding a professorship since 2008.

Dalia Balsytė has been a member of the panel of judges of several national and international competitions, and has given chamber music master classes at music universities all over Europe.