Participant data

Augustinas Eidukonis has been studying piano since 2002 at the National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Arts, in the class of Vida Emilija Prekerytė. He continued his piano studies at the Lübeck Academy of Music with prof. Konrad Elser, where he achieved his master's degree in 2021 with the highest grades. In 2017-2018 Augustinas studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory with prof. Willem Brons with Erasmus+ exchange programme, and in 2020-2021 – at the Paris National Conservatory with prof. Marie Josèphe Jude. He is currently studying in Paris, at the Alfred Cortot School of Music with prof. Henri Barda. He has been a scholarship holder of the foundations Ad Infinitum and Weiland Kulturstiftung since 2016, and of the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Lübeck since 2019. Augustinas Eidukonis is a laureate and diploma holder of many international and national competitions. In 2021, he unanimously won 1st prize in the LVIII Possehl Musikpreis Competition in Lübeck, and in 2017 he won 2nd prize in the XI International Piano Competition in Lagny sur Marne, France. In the same year, he won the Steinway Förderpreis Klassik 2017 competition prize, given by the Steinway & Sons in Hamburg. Augustinas Eidukonis has studied with professors Jerome Lowenthal, Andrzej Jasinski, Vera Nosina, Nina Seriogina, Michael Lewin, Mūza Rubackytė, Michel Beroff and the others.

I ROUND

1. Johann Sebastian Bach | WTC Book 2: Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor · BWV 873
2. Frederic Chopin | "12 Etudes" · Op. 10
3. Ludwig van Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 31 · A flat major · Op. 110
   • I Part. ~Moderato cantabile molto espressivo
   • II Part. ~Allegro molto
   • III Part. ~Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro ma non troppo
4. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | Prelude · B flat minor · VL 169
5. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | "Pater Noster" · VL 260

II ROUND

1. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | "The Sea, Cycles of Small Landscapes" · VL 317
2. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | Prelude · F sharp major · VL 184
3. Anatolijus Šenderovas | "M. K. Čiurlionis’ Sketches": "Demon", "Amber Palace","The Bell"
   • "Bell"
   • "Noah's Ark"
   • "Demon"
4. Franz Schubert | Piano Sonata No. 22 · A major · D. 959

III ROUND

1. Frederic Chopin | Piano Concerto No. 2 · F minor · Op. 21