36 Notable alumni of
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
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The Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre is 901st in the world, 317th in Europe, and 2nd in Lithuania by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 36 notable alumni from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Michael Stuhlbarg
- Occupations
- film actorstage actortelevision actor
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Michael Stuhlbarg is an American actor. He is known as a character actor having portrayed a variety of roles in film, television and theatre. He has received several awards including two Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
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Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
- Enrolled in the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
- Studied in 1985
- Occupations
- film actoractortheatrical producertelevision presenterstage actor
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Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė is а stage and screen actress of Lithuanian origin. She's best known for her performance in Burnt by the Sun (1994) and the leading female role in Katya Ismailova (1994), which won her the Nika Award for Best Actress. Dapkūnaitė was also credited in Mission: Impossible (1996), Seven Years in Tibet (1997), Emily Young's debut Kiss of Life (2003), and Okkupert (2015–2019).
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Severija Janušauskaitė
- Enrolled in the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
- Studied in 2005
- Occupations
- modelstage actorfilm actoractorcomposer
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Severija Janušauskaitė is a Lithuanian stage and film actress, occasionally performing as a singer, composer, costume designer and fashion model. She is well known for her role in the drama film Star (2014), for which she received an Award for Best Actress at the Kinotavr Film Festival, a Golden Eagle Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as Nika Award and White Elephant Award nominations in several categories. Other popular works include the comedy film The Norseman (2015) as well as the TV series The Optimists and Babylon Berlin (both 2017).
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Donatas Banionis
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- theatrical directorpoliticianstage actorfilm actoractor
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Donatas Banionis was a Soviet and Lithuanian stage and film actor and theatre director. He has more than 80 credited roles in cinema and is best known for his performance in the lead role of Tarkovsky's Solaris as Kris Kelvin. He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania.
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Vytautas Landsbergis
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- music historianchess playermusic teachermusicianmusicologist
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Vytautas Landsbergis is a Lithuanian politician and former Member of the European Parliament. He was the first Speaker of Reconstituent Seimas of Lithuania after its independence declaration from the Soviet Union. He has written 20 books on a variety of topics, including a biography of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, as well as works on politics and music. He is a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration, and a member of the international advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
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Pēteris Vasks
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- composer
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Pēteris Vasks is a Latvian composer.
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Asmik Grigorian
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- opera singer
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Asmik Grigorian is an Armenian-Lithuanian operatic soprano.
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Inga Jankauskaitė
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- actorsinger
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Inga Jankauskaitė is a Lithuanian actress, singer, and piano player.
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Vytautas Šapranauskas
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- actor
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Vytautas Šapranauskas was a Lithuanian comedy and drama actor of theatre and cinema, and an anchor of TV programs. According to the chairman of the Lithuanian Union of Actors, he was one of Lithuania's most talented actors, both in comedy and drama.
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Eimuntas Nekrošius
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- theatrical director
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Eimuntas Nekrošius was a Lithuanian theatre director.
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Marius Jampolskis
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- television actoractor
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Marius Jampolskis is a Lithuanian actor and TV host.
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Vytautas Kernagis
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- singer-songwritersongwritersingerfilm actorrecording artist
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Vytautas Kernagis was a Lithuanian singer-songwriter, bard, actor, director, and television announcer. He is considered a pioneer of Lithuanian sung poetry.
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Mindaugas Karbauskis
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- theatrical directordramaturge
- Biography
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Mindaugas Karbauskis is a Lithuanian theater director, since 2011 artistic director of Mayakovsky Theatre. Winner of the Golden Mask Award (2007, 2008, 2016). He resigned from the position of the artistic director on February 25, 2022.
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Violeta Urmana
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- opera singer
- Biography
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Violeta Urmanavičiūtė-Urmana is a Lithuanian opera singer who has sung leading mezzo-soprano and soprano roles in the opera houses of Europe and North America.
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Jurgita Jurkutė
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- beauty pageant contestantmodelfilm actoractor
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Jurgita Jurkutė is a Lithuanian actress and beauty pageant titleholder who is the winner of Miss Lithuania 2007 pageant.
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Rolandas Kazlas
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- actortheatrical directortelevision actor
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Rolandas Kazlas is a Lithuanian actor, comedian and theater director. Lithuanian National Culture and Arts prize winner in 2009.
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Saulius Sondeckis
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- violistconductorviolinistmusic teachermusicologist
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Saulius Sondeckis was a Lithuanian violinist, conductor, orchestra leader and professor. He founded the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra in 1960 and was its artistic director and principal conductor until 2004.
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Oskaras Koršunovas
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- theatrical directoruniversity teacher
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Oskaras Koršunovas is a Lithuanian theatre director.
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Vyacheslav Ganelin
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- jazz musiciancomposerfilm score composermusic teacherbandleader
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Vyacheslav Ganelin (Hebrew: ויאצ'סלב (סלבה) גנלין, Lithuanian: Viačeslavas Ganelinas, Russian: Вячеслав Шевелевич Гане́лин; born 17 December 1944) is a Lithuanian–Israeli jazz pianist, composer, and pedagogue.
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Vytautas Juozapaitis
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- university teachermusic teacheropera singerrecording artistmusician
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Vytautas Juozapaitis is a Lithuanian singer (baritone), recipient of Lithuanian National Prize, a soloist of Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre and Kaunas State Musical Theatre, a professor of Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and a docent of Vilnius College of Higher Education, and a television personality. He has performed in many international venues and is considered the most famous contemporary Lithuanian baritone.
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Evelina Sašenko
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- jazz musicianopera singer
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Evelina Sašenko-Statulevičienė is a Lithuanian jazz singer of Polish-Ukrainian descent, who was born and lives in Lithuania.
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Gytis Ivanauskas
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- actorchoreographer
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Gytis Ivanauskas is a Lithuanian actor, dancer and choreographer. In 2005, he established his own theatre, called Gytis Ivanauskas Theatre (GI Theatre).
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Vytautas Miškinis
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- conductorcomposeruniversity teacherchoir director
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Vytautas Miškinis is a Lithuanian composer, choral conductor and academic teacher. He is artistic director of Ąžuoliukas, a boys' and youth choir and music school, and of other ensembles, performing internationally. He has taught choral conducting at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre from 1985. His groups have won prizes at international competitions, where he also served as member of the jury. His compositions are part of international standard choral repertoire.
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Faustas Latėnas
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- politiciancomposer
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Faustas Latėnas was a Lithuanian composer, theatre manager, politician and diplomat. He composed mostly incidental music, and also scores for films and television. He was vice-minister of the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture, advisor to the prime minister in cultural affairs, and cultural attaché in Moscow.
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Romuald Twardowski
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- composermusic teacher
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Romuald Twardowski was a Polish composer, pianist, organist and academic teacher who studied in Vilnius, Warsaw and Paris. In a style described as "developed neoclassicism", he composed operas, ballets, instrumental music and vocal works, especially sacred music for both Catholic use and the Orthodox Church. He achieved international prizes for his compositions, and many works were recorded in anthologies, including the Violin Concerto, chamber music, and sacred and secular choral music such as the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. He was professor at the State Academy of Music in Warsaw from 1972 to 2008.
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Nehama Lifshitz
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- singer
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Nechama Lifshitz was a Yiddish language and later Hebrew language soprano and art song performer who came to be a key representative of Soviet Jewish culture in the 1950s and 1960s. Her seemingly innocent concerts were the heart and soul of Lipshitz's contribution to keeping Jewish culture and identity alive in the Communist bloc.
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Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson
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- actor
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Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson is a Lithuanian politician. From 13 December 2016 to 21 December 2018, she served as Minister of Culture in the Skvernelis Cabinet led by Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis.
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Audrius Nakas
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- politicianactor
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Audrius Nakas is a Lithuanian politician and a former member of the Seimas. He graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and worked as an actor before a career in politics.
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Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė
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- politician
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Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė is a Lithuanian politician. She has served as a Member of the Seimas since 2016, and has additionally served as Deputy Speaker of the Seimas since 2020 and as First Vice Chairwoman of the Homeland Union since 2021.
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Judita Leitaitė
- Occupations
- opera singer
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Judita Leitaitė is Lithuanian opera singer and mezzo-soprano.
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Eva Ben-Zvi
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- singer
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Eva Ben-Zvi is a Lithuanian-born Israeli soprano. She teaches singing at Bar-Ilan University. She has made several notable premiere performances and premiere recordings of Jewish music. She premiered Gabriel Iranyi's song cycle The Hymns of Job in 1993.
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Nijolė Ambrazaitytė
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- university teacheropera singerpolitician
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Nijolė Ambrazaitytė was an opera singer, politician, and signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
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Vilija Aleknaitė-Abramikienė
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- musicologistuniversity teacherpolitician
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Vilija Aleknaitė-Abramikienė is a Lithuanian politician and member of the Seimas.
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Mindaugas Rojus
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- opera singer
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Mindaugas Rojus is a Lithuanian opera singer (tenor / baritone), a soloist of Klaipėda State Music Theatre, and a member of a stage duo Žemaitijos perlai (Samogitia's Pearls).
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Giedrė Beinoriūtė
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- screenwriterfilm director
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Giedrė Beinoriūtė is a Lithuanian filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and co-founder of a film studio "Monoklis".
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Darius Mažintas
- Occupations
- politicianpianist
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Darius Mažintas is a Lithuanian pianist and politician. Since March 2013 to September 2014 he has been Vice Minister for Culture.
