Gryta Tatorytė

Gryta Tatorytė (born April 11, 1989 in Panevėžys ) is a Lithuanian pianist.

family

Gryta Tatorytė grew up with her grandmother in Panevėžys. Her mother, Lina Babkevičienė, lived in Kaunas because she saw a better job market in the second largest Lithuanian city than in Panevėžys. When Gryta was admitted to the Vilnius Art School, Babkevičienė lived in Vilnius for a few months, where she worked in a sports club. When she became unemployed, she returned to Kaunas. Babkevičienė was a professional athlete, multiple Lithuanian champion in judo (weight class up to 48 kg). In July 2000, the then 28-year-old mother was killed by her partner. Gryta's father lives in Spain . In Ettlingen Gryta Tatorytė met her husband.

education

First, Gryta played the accordion at home. Gryta Tatorytė started playing the piano at the age of six. From 1997 to 1999 she studied at the Panevėžys Music School with her teacher Silvija Paskačimaitė. In the third grade she took part in the seminar "Gintarinė svetainė" in Palanga , where she met her future teacher Justas Dvarionas at master classes. In 1999 she was accepted into the class of Justas Dvarionas without any entrance exams to the Čiurlionis Art School in Vilnius .

After graduating from high school in Vilnius, she completed her bachelor's and master's degree with distinction from 2008 to 2014 at the Karlsruhe University of Music with Michael Uhde , Markus Stange and Peter Eicher . From 2013 she also completed a master’s degree in music education with Mirjam Boggasch . She continued her education with Christopher Elton , Nina Seriogina , Tigran Alichanov , Mūza Rubackytė , Gitti Pirner and many others.

Gryta Tatorytė received a scholarship from the Lithuanian Mstislaw Rostropovich Foundation, the Lithuanian Musicians Foundation Lietuvos muzikų rėmimo fondas (2007–2009), the Swiss “Michel Sogny Foundation” and the Zonta Club Karlsruhe . She has won numerous international competitions.

2000 debuted with the Christophorus Chamber Orchestra (conductor Donatas Katkus ). Gryta Tatorytė played with the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra (conductor Mindaugas Piečaitis , 2001), the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra in the “Festival Vilnius 2014” (conductor Modestas Pitrėnas ), the National Symphony Orchestra of Latvia and the Klaipėda Chamber Orchestra (conductor Johannes Wildner ). She performed with international orchestras and had concerts in large halls in Europe. These included the solo piano part of the “Turangalila Symphony” by O. Messiaen with the National Symphony Orchestra of Lithuania as well as a performance at the Schwetzingen Festival 2011, a piano recital in the Villa Ludwigshöhe and many others. In 2014 she performed with the cellist Julian Bachmann at the “Palatinischer Frühling 2014” in Bad Bergzabern and Ludwigshöhe , Edenkoben , with the violinist Algirdas Šochas in the ruler's palace in Vilnius . In 2015 she had spring concerts in the Martinskirche in Leinsweiler with the Japanese Naru Wakamatsu.

Prices

• 2000: first prize at the Rubinstein competition in Paris
• Piano competition in Ettlingen (Germany)
• Piano competition "Roma 2006" ( Italy )
• Jūrmala Piano Competition (Latvia)
• 2002: two special prizes at the Balys Dvarionas piano competition in Vilnius (Lithuania)
• 2003: Special Prize of the European Union of Music Competitions for Young People
• 2004: Prize at the Aldona Dvarionaitė International Pianist Competition ( Visaginas , Lithuania)
• 2011: First prize at the 31st International Piano Competition ( XXXI Edizione Concorso Internationale di Esecuzione ) in Agropoli ( Salerno , Italy)
• 2012: 1st prize at the 18th international piano competition “Young virtuoso - etudes and scales” in Zagreb , Croatia

Discography

• CD Poetry & Virtuosity in Piano Music (with Jan Rossa and Naru Wakamatsu)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Be tėvo augusi pianistė ​​G. Tatorytė nepalūžo ir po mamos žūties
2. ↑ Auka žadėjo ... išlaisvinti žudiką
3. ↑ Audrų draskomą sielą ramina meilė muzikai ir vokiečiui
4. ↑ "Muzikiniame pastiše" - pianistė ​​Gryta Tatorytė ( Lietuvos radijas )
5. ↑ Vilniaus festivali nuskaidrino G. Sodeikos MUZIKINIS pokštas
6. ↑ Common Herculean Tasks ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( Rheinpfalz-Zeitung , October 25, 2011)  
7. ↑ Vital music-making
8. ↑ Culture notes: Zonta-Club brings Greta Tatoryté to the Villa Ludwigshöhe
9. ↑ life
10. ↑ Pianistic brilliance in its purest form
11. ↑ Life ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Life ( Bad Wildbad , German)
13. ↑ CD Poetry & Virtuosity in Piano Music ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.