ZAKEVICIUTE, Vilte

Viltė Žakevičiūtė (b. 1996) was born and grew up in Kaunas, she started her musical career at Kaunas Juozas Naujalis Music Gymnasium, where she chose violin. Later she continued her studies as a composer at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. From there, she graduated her BA studies with Mārtiņš Viļums in 2018 and MA studies with Raminta Šerkšnytė in 2020. Currently she pursues her PhD studies at the same Academy with Ričardas Kabelis. In 2019, V. Žakevičiūtė’s bachelor work “The Secret of the Magnolia Flower”, performed by the St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra (cond. Donatas Katkus), represented Lithuania at the International Rostrum of Composers in Argentina. In 2021-22, she was the Artistic Director of the "Iš arti" new music festival in Kaunas.