Raminta Šerkšnytė

Raminta Šerkšnytė (born 1975) is a Lithuanian composer, pianist and associate professor of composition. She is a laureate of the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts (the highest artistic distinction in Lithuania, in 2008). She is also winner of the composition competition Le Coup de Coeur des Jeunes Mélomanes (the Prince Pierre Foundation, Monaco, 2011). In 2020 she was nominated (shortlisted) for a Gramophone Classical Music Award. Her De profundis for string orchestra (1998), composed when she was just twenty-two years of age, is one of the most popular and performed Lithuanian compositions across the world. Maestro Gidon Kremer described De profundis as “the calling card of Baltic music”.

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