Diana Čemerytė

Diana Čemerytė made her first attempts at composition at the age of nine. After studying Composition and the Theory of Music at the Conservatory in Vilnius she studied Composition under Osvaldas Balakauskas at the Lithuanian Academy of Music in Vilnius from 1994 to 2000. Since 2003 she has been extending her training by studying Musicology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Diana Čemerytė has been commissioned to compose a number of pieces and is a regular guest at festivals and concerts of contemporary music in Lithuania and other parts of Europe. Her work includes chamber music, with string quartets, choral music, orchestral works and an opera for children. Diana Cemeryte is currently living in Frankfurt am Main as a free-lance composer and was awarded the scholarship of the Frankfurt Mozart Foundation for 2004.