User:Edvinas Minkstimas

Edvinas Minkstimas(born in 1980, Kaunas, Lithuania) - pianist.

Biography

Edvinas Minkstimas was born in 1980 in Kaunas, Lithuania, to a middle-class family. His musical path began at age four, when he began studies at the Kaunas Juozas Naujalis music school. At the time Lithuania was still a member state of the Soviet Union. In 1997, he began studies at the Lithuanian Academy of Music under tutelage of Prof. Veronika Vitaite. In 2001, Edvinas Minkstimas was accepted for the Artist Diploma studies at the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP), class of Prof. Michel Beroff and later, in 2003, began studies at the Juilliard School in New York. In 2005 Edvinas Minkstimas, as a C.V.Starr Doctoral Fellow was admitted to the DMA studies at the Juilliard School, from which he graduated in 2011. A Steinway Artist,, Dr. Minkstimas became a member of Phillips Collection Camerata, , and was invited to become Resident Artist of the Embassy Series. Since 2014, Dr. Minkstimas serves as faculty of the Washington Conservatory of Music and as Chair of the Piano Department since 2015.

Sources http://www.musicperformers.lt/Edvinas-Mink%C5%A1timas http://www.minkstimas.com/biography.html https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvinas_Mink%C5%A1timas