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

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 | Partita No. 5 · G major · BWV 829
2. Sergei Prokofiev | Piano Sonata No. 3 · "From Old Notebooks" · A minor · Op. 28
3. Stasys Vainiūnas | "Meadows of Homeland" · Op. 31
   • "The Lilies of the Valley are in Bloom"

II ROUND

1. Stasys Vainiūnas | "Eight Moods" · Op. 43
   • VII. Amabile
   • III. Vivo
   • IV. Lusingado
   • V. Lugubre, Molto Rubato
2. Stasys Vainiūnas | "Eight Moods" · Op. 43
   • III. Vivo
3. Stasys Vainiūnas | "Eight Moods" · Op. 43
   • IV. Lusingado
4. Stasys Vainiūnas | "Eight Moods" · Op. 43
   • V. Lugubre, Molto Rubato
5. Claude Debussy | "Masques" · L. 105
6. Claude Debussy | "L'Isle Joyeuse" (Island of Joy) · L. 106
7. Frederic Chopin | Scherzo No. 4 · E major · Op. 54

III ROUND

1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Piano Concerto No. 20 · D minor · K. 466