Gabrielius A. offers Piano Lessons
Tutor in New York, NY 10026
New York, NY 10026
NOT ENROLLING
Price starts at: $85.00
Subjects: Piano
Why settle for piano lessons with a guitarist who also teaches drums and viola? This being NYC, start or continue your piano lessons with an actively performing and recording classical pianist with Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the Juilliard School and prizes in top international competitions. As a teacher, I am encouraging, enthusiastic, patient, and flexible in teaching adults and children of all levels. I love finding the right individual approach with each of my students, so that I can effectively help them reach their full potential, whether in their first steps in understanding and making music, or in preparation for performances/auditions. My teaching experience includes university-level faculty positions at Brooklyn College, CUNY (from 2019) and in my native Lithuania (2011-2016), a teaching fellowship at Juilliard (2002-2004), private lessons since 2000, and extensive master classes in US and abroad.
My international performing career has led me to appear as soloist with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (Austria), the Juilliard Orchestra, the New Amsterdam and Adelphi Symphony Orchestras (both in New York), Bilkent Symphony Orchestra (Ankara, Turkey), Wartburg Community Symphony (Iowa), and the Belarus State Symphony Orchestra in Minsk, while in my native Lithuania I appear regularly with all the major orchestras. I have garnered more than a dozen top prizes in competitions on both sides of the Atlantic, such as Beethoven (Vienna, Austria), Hilton Head (United States), and Maria Canals (Spain) International Piano Competitions.Among the venues where I have enjoyed performing solo are New York’s Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall, Washington, D.C.’s National Gallery, the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Vienna’s Musikverein, New York’s Symphony Space and Adelphi University, Helsinki’s (Finland) Temppeliaukion kirkko, large halls of National Philharmonic Societies of Belarus and Lithuania, and others. I do love to perform chamber music as well, and have played with numerous outstanding instrumentalists and singers.
I have been greatly interested in the piano music by 20th-Century Lithuanian avant-garde composers Vytautas Bacevičius and Jeronimas Kačinskas, and have shared this interest through several critically acclaimed recordings. The British label ‘Toccata Classics’ has issued two volumes in an ongoing series of Bacevičius’ piano music (2012 and 2016). In this project, I had a fortune to collaborate with the five-time Grammy-winning producer Judith Sherman and the five-time Grammy-nominated pianist Ursula Oppens. My recording of Vytautas Bacevičius’ piano concertos Nos. 3 and 4, with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra and the three-time Grammy-nominated conductor Christopher Lyndon-Gee was released by the largest classical music label ‘Naxos’ in 2015. Jeronimas Kačinskas’ piano works appeared in 2013 on another release by ‘Toccata Classics’.
I am looking forward to welcoming you in my studio!
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EDUCATION
Date: September 15, 1998 – May 15, 2000
School: The Juilliard School
Degree: Master of Music in Piano Performance
Date: September 15, 2000 – May 15, 2006
School: The Juilliard School, New York
Degree: Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance
Date: September 15, 1996 – May 15, 1998
School: The Juilliard School
Degree: Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance
AFFILIATIONS
Date: February 15, 2015
Name: The Leschetizky Association
Description: The purpose of the Association shall be to honor the memory of Theodor Leschetizky by perpetuating his ideals
and principles of piano playing and teaching, and by furthering awareness of his compositions. The Association
also aims to foster the growth and development of fine piano-playing and an appreciation of the musical arts
through activities consistent with those set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation. The Association is a New
York not for profit corporation.
EXPERIENCE
Date: August 15, 2019
Organization: Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, CUNY
Title: Assistant Professor
Description:
Date: September 15, 2011 – May 15, 2016
Organization: Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
Title: Visiting Associate Professor
Description:
Date: January 15, 2000
Organization: My studio
Title: Private Piano and Music Theory Instructor
Description:
Date: February 15, 2013 – August 15, 2014
Organization: Birštonas Summer Arts Academy, Birštonas, Lithuania
Title: Co-founder, Organizer, Faculty Member and Performing Artist
Description:
Date: September 15, 2002 – May 15, 2004
Organization: The Juilliard School
Title: Piano Minor Instructor
Description:
Date: January 15, 2017
Organization: Nord Anglia International School New York
Title: Piano Faculty at After School Arts with Juilliard
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CERTIFICATES
Date: May 15, 2018
Authority: Steinway & Sons
Name: Steinway Educational Partner
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AWARDS
Date: June 15, 2005
Authority: International Beethoven Piano Competition, Viena, Austria
Name: Second Prize
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Date: November 15, 2010
Authority: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania
Name: Young Artist Prize
Description:
Date: May 15, 2006
Authority: The Juilliard School, New York
Name: Richard F. French Prize for outstanding work on a doctoral dissertation
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LANGUAGES
Language: Lithuanian
Proficiency: Fluent / Native Proficiency
Language: Russian
Proficiency: Professional Proficiency