Lithuanian Сomposers’ Union Prize Winners
Lithuanian Composers’ Union prize winners
2022
The Vytautas Landsbergis Prize awarded to Associate Professor Dr. Laima Budzinauskienė for archaeology of 19th-century musical culture in the monograph The Vilnius Cathedral Choir (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, 2021).
2021
The Vytautas Landsbergis Prize awarded to musicologist and organist Associate Professor Dr. Eglė Šeduikytė-Korienė for historical research of Lithuanian diaspora in the monograph He Chose Freedom. Organist Jonas Žukas (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, 2020).
The Ona Narbutienė Prize awarded to Prof. Dr. Habil. Leonidas Melnikas for the portrayal of the personality, the environment and the times in the two-volume book Maestro Saulius Sondeckis (R. Paknys Publishing House, 2020/2021).
The Lithuanian Composers’ Union Prize awarded to Associate Professor Dr. Kamila Rupeikaitė for the portrayal of the composer and his work in the monograph Dialogues. Composer Anatolijus Šenderovas (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, 2020).
2020
The Ona Narbutienė Prize awarded to Prof. Dr. Habil. Gražina Daunoravičienė for founding the journal Lithuanian Musicology, compiling and publishing 20 volumes between 2000 and 2019.
2019
The Lithuanian Composers’ Union Prize awarded to Prof. Dr. Habil. Daiva Vyčinienė for fostering and promoting of the tradition of sutartinės in the world and for the wide scope of her research in the monograph The Weavings of Sutartinės (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, 2018).
2018
The Vytautas Landsbergis Prize awarded to Prof. Dr. Rūta Stanevičiūtė-Kelmickienė for revealing cultural relations, interconnections between Lithuanian and world music during the Cold War in the monograph Nylon Curtain (vol. I Cold War, International Exchanges and Lithuanian Music, vol. II Foreign Correspondence of Lithuanian Musicians in the Years of Cold War, LMTA) (together with Danutė Petrauskaitė and Vita Gruodytė).
2017
The Vytautas Landsbergis Prize awarded to Prof. Dr. Habil. Gražina Daunoravičienė for the monograph Exploring the Modernist Identity of Lithuanian Music (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, 2016).
The Ona Narbutienė Prize awarded to ethnomusicologist Dr. Eirimas Velička for innovative and open pedagogy and the compatibility of authenticity and methodology in the monograph Lithuanian Ethnic Music in the System of Primary Music Education (published by the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre).
2016
The Vytautas Landsbergis Prize awarded to musicologist Prof. Dr. Rūta Stanevičiūtė-Kelmickienė for revealing the processes of modernisation of Lithuanian music in Lithuania and the world in her book The Equations of Modernity: The International Society for Contemporary Music and the Dissemination of Musical Modernism in Lithuania.
The Lithuanian Composers’ Union Prize awarded to ethnomusicologist Prof. Dr. Rytis Ambrazevičius for his innovative research of the acoustics of Lithuanian ethnic music in the book Lithuanian Traditional Music Harmonies: Acoustics, Perception and Contexts, published in English.
2015
The Ona Narbutienė Prize awarded to Lithuanian musicological erudite, essayist, historian, chronicler Prof. Dr. Jonas Vytautas Bruveris for his consistently developed aesthetic ideas and diversity of contexts in his book Historical Contexts of Lithuanian Music (published by the Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy).
The Vytautas Landsbergis Prize awarded to Associate Professor Dr. Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli for innovative research into the art of piano performance in her book Piano Performance in a Semiotic Key. Society, Musical Canon and Novel Discourses, published in English by Semiotic Society of Finland.
2014
The Ona Narbutienė Prize awarded to Jūratė Vyliūtė and Associate Professor Dr. Gaila Kirdienė for the book Lithuanians and Music in Siberia, which reintroduced the names and works of musicians – exiles and political prisoners – into history.
The Vytautas Landsbergis Prize awarded to Associate Professor Dr. Rima Povilionienė for the study Musica Mathematica. Traditions and Innovations in Contemporary Music – a fundamental research into the relationship between music and mathematics.
2012
The Vytautas Landsbergis Prize awarded to composer Associate Professor Dr. Ramūnas Motiekaitis for original insights and new discourses in the book Poetics of the Nameless Middle: Japan and the West in Philosophy and Music of the Twentieth Century. This scientific study was published in 2011 in the serious of publications Acta Semiotica Fennica by the International Semiotics Institute.
2011
The Ona Narbutienė Prize awarded to Associate Professor Dr. Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli for innovative research into the art of performance in her book Suite of Conversations: 32 Interviews and Interludes on the Art of Music Performance.
The Vytautas Landsbergis Prize awarded to Prof. Dr. Rimantas Janeliauskas for his significant contribution to the exploration of Čiurlionis’ works and their contexts in his book The Unrecognised Čiurlionis’ Music Cycles.
2010
The Ona Narbutienė Prize awarded to Prof. Dr. Habil. Algirdas Ambrazas (1934–2016) for research of Lithuanian musical culture in the book Juozas Gruodis at the Confluence of Epochs.
2009
The Ona Narbutienė Prize awarded to Associate Professor Dr. Danutė Palionytė for research into the musical culture of Lithuanians in exile in the book Julius Gaidelis – a Singer of Longing for Home.
2008
The Vytautas Landsbergis Prize awarded to Prof. Dr. Habil. Algirdas Ambrazas (1934–2016) for fundamental works in musicology and scientific supervision of the three-volume Music Encyclopaedia.
2007
The prize for fundamental research into Lithuanian music culture in the book Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre awarded to Prof. Dr. Jonas Bruveris.
The prize for research into Lithuanian musicians’ art history in the book Izidorius Vasyliūnas. Life, Activities, Articles, Letters awarded to Associate Professor Dr. Vytautė Markeliūnienė.
The prize for the promotion of Lithuanian music culture awarded to Dr. Habil. Jūratė Trilupaitienė.
2006
The prize for attention to Lithuanian music and its promotion was awarded to Prof. Dr. Rūta Stanevičiūtė-Kelmickienė and Prof. Dr. Audronė Žiūraitytė who initiated a session on Lithuanian music at the Congress of the International Musicological Society in Belgium and who published a collection of the proceedings of the session.
2004
The prize for fundamental research in the field of Lithuanian music awarded to Associate Professor Dr. Danutė Palionytė for the book History of Lithuanian Music. Book 1. The Years of National Revival 1883–1918.