Simonas Miknius
(2003)
| Lithuania
Simonas Miknius is a laureate of numerous music competitions, including the Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Szafarnia (Poland), the International César Franck Piano Competition in Brussels (Belgium), the Ricard Viñes Piano Competition in Lleida (Spain), and many others. He is currently studying at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre under prof. Petras Geniušas, and has received three of the institution’s most prestigious awards: the R. Apeikytė Foundation Award, the K. Motieka Foundation Award, and the Yamaha Scholarship. During the 2024–2025 academic year, he studied at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama. In 2025, he won 1st prize at the Lisztofonija V Competition.
I ROUND
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
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Prelude
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B minor
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VL 182a
Johann Sebastian Bach
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WTC Book 2: Prelude and Fugue in A flat major
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BWV 886
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
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Prelude
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D flat major
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VL 187
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
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"Autumn"
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VL 264
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Piano Sonata No. 12 ("Funeral March")
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A flat major
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Op. 26
Franz Liszt
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"Études d'exécution transcendante" · S. 139: Transcendental etude No. 7 "Eroica"
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E flat major
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S. 139/7
II ROUND
Vidmantas Bartulis
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"Hanami"
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
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"The Sea, Cycles of Small Landscapes"
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VL 317
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
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Fugue
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B flat minor
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VL 345
Franz Schubert
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"Drei Klavierstücke" ("Three Piano Pieces")
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E flat minor
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D. 946
Sergei Prokofiev
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Piano Sonata No. 7
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B flat major
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Op. 83
III ROUND
Robert Schumann
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Piano Concerto
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A minor
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Op. 54
