CEPAITE, Neria

Neria Cepaite (Nerija Čepaitė-Goldberg) was a Lithuanian composer born in Kaunas. She studied choral conducting at the Juozas Gruodis Conservatory and composition at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre with Vytautas Laurušas. Her works include sacred, orchestral and stage music, combining tonal, neo-Romantic and neo-Classical elements. Her Requiem, dedicated to the memory of Ričardas Mikutavičius, was performed by the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra and Kaunas State Choir. Cepaite also composed the music for the ballet Cleopatra, premiered by the Macedonian Opera and Ballet in Skopje in 2016. She died in 2020.