Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (born August 29, 1986 in Vilnius ) is a Lithuanian orchestra conductor . In 2016 she caused a stir when she became chief conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at the age of 29 .

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Heidelberg 2018

stage name

In 2012 the conductor created her stage name by adding the hyphen and Tyla to her family name Gražinytė ; Tyla means silence in Lithuanian , also calm or silence .

Life

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla grew up in a family of musicians. Her father Romualdas Gražinis (* 1962) is the choir conductor of the Vilnius Choir "Aidija" and teaches at the Lithuanian Music Academy and the Vilnius Seminary . Her mother Sigutė Gražinienė is a pianist . Her grandmother Beata Vasiliauskaitė-Šmidtienė (* 1941) is a violinist who taught at the Lithuanian Academy of Music .

Gražinytė-Tyla attended the 27th Vilnius Middle School (now Jonas Basanavičius High School) in Naujamiestis . There she had extended French lessons . At first she had art lessons, only later she switched to music and graduated from the Čiurlionis Art School , where she was trained as a choir conductor .

Professional background

education

After graduating from high school in 2004, Gražinytė-Tyla studied choir conducting and then orchestral conducting (in the bachelor's degree) at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz (Austria), at the Erasmus program at the Conservatory in Bologna , then at the Leipzig Music Academy with Ulrich Windfuhr and at the Zurich University of the Arts with Johannes Schläfli. Gražinytė-Tyla attended master classes with Herbert Blomstedt , David Zinman , Peter Gülke and Christian Ehwald.

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla as a conductor

After a seminar with Kurt Masur in Bonn , Gražinytė-Tyla worked as his assistant at the Orchester National de France . In 2009 Gražinytė-Tyla was accepted into the sponsorship of the Conductors' Forum of the German Music Council . In 2010 she made her operatic debut with La traviata at the Osnabrück Theater . In 2011/12 she worked as Second Kapellmeister at the Heidelberg Theater and Orchestra and in 2013/14 she moved to the Konzert Theater Bern as First Kapellmeister . From the 2015/16 season Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla was music director of the Salzburg State Theater until the end of the 2016/2017 season . In the United States , she worked with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in venues such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl . She worked as an assistant conductor (2014/15 season) and as an associate conductor (2016/17) with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

In September 2016 Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla became chief conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra , succeeding Andris Nelsons and Simon Rattle . This made her the first woman in this position and the third chief conductor of a major British orchestra.

As a guest conductor, she has been invited to numerous orchestras across Europe.

Awards

• 1st prize at the international competition for young choir conductors in Budapest (Hungary), 2007
• 3rd prize winner at the 2008 international conducting competition in Stavanger
• 2nd place at the 2011 competition in Leipzig, Prize: Concert with the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
• 2012: Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award at the Salzburg Festival (which enabled her to work with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra .)
• 2012–2013: Dudamel Fellowship with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
• 2018: Austrian Music Theater Prize in the Best Musical Direction category for Mozart's Idomeneo, Rè di Creta at the Salzburg State Theater

Recordings (selection)

• 2019: Works by Raminta Šerkšnytė , Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra under Giedrė Šlekytė and Kremerata Baltica under Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Deutsche Grammophon

Web links

Commons : Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla's website (en, de)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 25 metų lietuvei - tik vienas žingsnis iki prestižinio prizo
2. ^ ^{A b} Rosie Pentreath: 19 of today's top women conductors. Can you name the best female conductors working today? classical-music.com, accessed July 20, 2017.
3. ↑ Christine Lemke-Matwey: Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla: Schicksalsfanfaren. In: zeit.de . August 26, 2016. Retrieved July 23, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Now the era of women conductors begins. In: Berner Zeitung . Retrieved February 3, 2016.
5. ↑ M.Gražinytė-Tyla batutos judesius apskaičiavo milímetro tikslumu. In: lrytas.lt , Retrieved February 3, 2016.
6. ↑ Boleslovas Zubrickas. Pasaulio lietuvių chorvedžiai: enciklopedinis žinynas. Vilnius, 1999. Informacijos publikavimui gautas žodinis autoriaus leidimas.
7. ↑ Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla: "Stovint prieš orkestrą svarbiausia būti savimi". In: lmka.lt , Retrieved February 3, 2016.
8. ↑ 50 pedagoginės veiklos ir 70 metų sukakties minėjimo koncertas. In: cmm.lt , Retrieved February 3, 2016.
9. ↑ Tyla prieš koncertą. Mirga Gražinytė , ( Memento of the original dated February 5, 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. In: vz.lt , accessed on February 3, 2016. 
10. ^ M. Gražinytė-Tyla - Pirmoji lietuvė, kurios batutai pakluso JAV orkestrai. In: diena.lt , accessed on February 3, 2016.
11. ^ M. Gražinytė-Tyla - pirmoji lietuvė, kurios batutai pakluso JAV orkestrai. In: lrt.lt , accessed on February 3, 2016.
12. ↑ Mirgą Gražinytę netikėtai keičia kylanti batutos žvaigždė Martynas Stakionis. In: filharmonija.lt , accessed on February 3, 2016.
13. ↑ "I need eternity of loneliness". In: morgenweb.de , accessed on February 3, 2016.
14. ↑ Conductor Mirga Gražinytė - tarp podiumo primadonų
15. ↑ ^{a b} Culture: Portrait of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, chief conductor of the Salzburg State Theater, who also has posts in Birmingham and Los Angeles - culture. In: merkur.de. July 22, 2017. Retrieved July 22, 2017 . 
16. ↑ Mirgomanija: Dirigente mirga Gražinytė atranda America. In: lrytas.lt , Retrieved February 3, 2016.
17. ↑ Conductorės M. Gražinytės mostui pakluso vienas geriausių planetos orkestrų. In: lrytas.lt , Retrieved February 3, 2016.
18. ↑ Birmingham: Mirga is the new Simon
19. ↑ Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla. In: yrasalis.lt , Retrieved February 3, 2016.
20. ↑ Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla , ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 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. In: dirigentenforum.de , accessed on February 3, 2016. 
21. ^ M. Gražinytė - tarptautinio dirigentų konkurso Zalcburge laureatė. In: lrytas.lt , Retrieved February 4, 2016.
22. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Big gala for award winners . Article dated June 19, 2018, accessed June 19, 2018.
23. ↑ SERKSNYTE Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla. In: deutschegrammophon.com. Retrieved December 2, 2019 . 
24. ↑ Female conductors: Everyone listen carefully: women at the chief conductor's desk! In: Zeit Online . November 20, 2019, accessed December 2, 2019 .