Gintaras Rinkevičius

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Gintaras Rinkevičius
Born (1960-02-20) 20 February 1960 (age 64)
Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts in 1994. In 1989 he founded the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra
.

Life and career

Rinkevičius graduated from Lithuania's

Malmö Opera and Music Theatre
from 2002 to 2005.

Among the symphony orchestras he has conducted are the

Champs Elysées Theatre in Paris, as well as in Taiwan and Hong Kong. He has been a featured conductor at the Bolshoi Theatre
in Moscow since 2003.

Rinkevičius continues to work in Lithuania, staging operas at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, serving as chief conductor and artistic director of the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, and as a professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. He has used these opportunities to introduce a number of original compositions by Lithuanian composers, including A Letter to all the Congregation by Algirdas Martinaitis and Agnus Dei by Feliksas Bajoras.

Since September 2007 Gintaras Rinkevičius is also an artistic director and principal conductor of the Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra.[2]

Awards and prizes

Rinkevičius with Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra in Kongresų rūmai

References

  1. ^ Arvydas Karaška. "Gintaras Rinkevičius". Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  2. ^ "Novosibirsk Philharmony webpage". Archived from the original on 2007-12-24. Retrieved 2008-01-10.

External links

  • [1] Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra. Retrieved September 7, 2007.
  • [2][
    Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania
    . Retrieved September 7, 2007.