X international m. k. čiurlionis piano and organ competition
is planned for September 2027, Vilnius

Participant data

Pianist Elzė Fedorcovaitė is a prize winner of over 20 international competitions, where she performed both as a soloist and a chamber musician. She is currently studying with Fali Pavri and Petras Geniušas at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Her most notable prizes – grand prix and 1st prizes (in solo and chamber orchestra categories) in the Music Without Borders competition in Lithuania (2014) and in the Stockholm International Music Competition (2019), along with title of the best pianist in the Polish Music Festival held in the memory of Frederic Chopin (2016). Her chamber ensemble Eunoia Duo, in which they play together with violinist Yik Liang Soo, has won 1st prize in the International Chamber Music Competition Spring Sonata in Lithuania, 1st prize in the Louis Carus Prize for Chamber Duos in United Kingdom, 2nd prize in the International Luigi Nono Chamber Music Competition in Italy. The ensamble also participated in the European Chamber Courses in the Orlando Festival with a full scholarship.

Elzė performed concerts with chamber and symphonic Orchestras in Poland and Lithuania. She has also performed recitals in Denmark, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Finland, Poland and Italy. She participated in masterclasses conducted by such piano stars as Nikolai Lugansky, Andzej Jasinski, Shunske Sato, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Eugen Indjic, Erik T. Tawaststjerna, Mūza Rubackytė, Andrius Žlabys, Ellen Corver and the others.

I ROUND

1. Johann Sebastian Bach | WTC Book 2: Prelude and Fugue in F sharp minor · BWV 883
2. Franz Joseph Haydn | Piano Sonata No. 60 · C major · Hob. XVI:50
3. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | "The Sea, Cycles of Small Landscapes" · VL 317
4. Frederic Chopin | Etude No. 8 · F major · Op. 10

II ROUND

1. Claude Debussy | "Suite Bergamasque" · L. 75
   • I. Prelude
2. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | Prelude · B major · VL 186
3. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | Prelude · F sharp major · VL 184
4. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | "The Little Sonata" · VL 269-271
5. Vytautas Barkauskas | "Legend About Čiurlionis" · Op. 30
6. Robert Schumann | "Carnaval" · Op. 9

III ROUND

1. Frederic Chopin | Piano concerto No. 1 · E minor · Op. 11