DIANA GALVYDYTE

Diana has given a number of solo performances in the UK, Lithuania, Netherlands, France, USA and Canada appearing with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra, Madeira Classical Orchestra, Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra, Charkov Symphony Orchestra and various Lithuanian orchestras. Diana has given recitals in venues such as Cadogan Hall, Purcell Room, Chamber Hall of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Theater Diligentia in the Hague and in 2004, to mark Lithuania's inauguration into the EU, represented her country at the Konzerthaus in Vienna. 

Diana was born in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1984 and received her early musical education at the Ciurlionis Gymnasium of Art in Vilnius. Since 2000 Diana studied with Prof. Natalia Boyarsky at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey and at the Royal College of Music in London obtaining a Masters Degree in Performance with Distinction. 

Diana has also received coaching from Christian Tetzlaff, Midori, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Miriam Fried, Zakhar Bron, Mstislav Rostropovich, Rudolf Koelman, Petru Munteanu, Lewis Kaplan and Zvi Zeitlin.

Diana is a prize-winner of 15 international competitions for young artists. Recent successes include becoming a laureate of the Jasha Heifetz International Competition in Lithuania and winning the Windsor Festival International String Competition in October 2009. Diana was also a finalist in the Jeunesses Musicales Montreal International Competition and was awarded the prize for the best interpretation of the contemporary set work. In Denmark Diana was awarded the 'European Prize for Achievement'.  

Diana is a recipient of Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Foundation Award, Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Award, Hattori Foundation Award and Musicians Benevolent Fund Music Education Award. She is also a winner of the 2007 Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists, awarded by the Making Music Federation.

Due to her international performing success the president of the Lithuanian Republic, Algirdas Brazauskas, awarded Diana with a special commendation: ‘These awards are in recognition of your successful efforts in promoting our Homeland Lithuania throughout the World’.