About me

Violinist Silvija Vaitkevičiūtė is an active member of the Lithuanian music professionals' community. Since 2015, she has been a violinist with the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, and since 2016, she has been working as a violin teacher at the Vilnius Algirdas Music School. She actively performs both as a soloist and as part of chamber ensembles. She has performed at festivals in Lithuania, Germany, and the Netherlands. In Lithuania, Silvija has performed at the Kristupas Festival in Vilnius, the World Voices music festival in Palanga, the Kaunas State Philharmonic, the Klaipėda Concert Hall, the Birštonas Kurhaus, the Gelgaudiškis Manor, and others. Together with pianists Eglė Kižytė-Ramonienė, Jone Punyte-Svigarienė, Simona Zajančauskaitė, Milda Umbrusevičiūtė, and soprano Dovilė Kazonaitė, Silvija organizes classical music concerts, often performing music from the 19th and 20th centuries. Silvija and her partners have prepared programs such as "Music of Old Paris," "World Songs Night III," "True Story," and others.

Her education and qualifications enable her to ensure successful and high-quality performance in the orchestra and smooth teaching. Vaitkevičiūtė graduated from the National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Arts in 2004, where she studied violin under Beata Šmidtienė, Raimundas Katlius, and Darius Dikšaitis.

Later, Silvija continued her studies in the class of Professor Ingrida Armonaitė-Galinienė at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. In 2008–2009, she studied at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria, under professors Helmut Zehetmair and Lavard Skou-Larsen as part of the Erasmus study program. From 2010 to 2012, she studied at the Leipzig University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Germany, where she earned her master's degree in Professor Friedemann Wezel's violin class.

Silvija has won prizes in international young violinist competitions and has performed in international youth orchestras such as the Deutsch–Skandinavische Jugend–Philharmonie, the International Music Session of the Association of Baltic Academies of Music, and the Baltic Youth Philharmonic. While studying at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University, she also gained practical experience with the Leipzig Orchestra "Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Leipzig." Silvija has improved her skills in masterclasses at the Internationalen Meisterkurse Osnabrück with Professor Elisabeth Kufferath and at "The International Holland Music Sessions" in Bergen NH, the Netherlands, with Professors Serguei Azizian and Isaac Schuldman.