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First name: Vytautas
Last name: Germanavicius
Dates: 1969
Category: Quintet
Nationality: Lithuanian
Opus name: Pyramid Sonata
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Information: . Vytautas Germanavi?ius (b.1969) graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music with a BA and MA in composition under Prof. Julius Juzeli?nas (1996). In 2005 he received an MFA in electronic music from Mills College, USA. He also studied composition with Prof. Jonathan Harvey, Alvin Curran. Germanavi?ius was the recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship for electronic music and recording media studies at Mills College, USA (2003), UNESCO-Aschberg Bursary for residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada (2000), Elizabeth Mills Crothers Award in Composition from Mills College, USA (2005), The Sir William Glock Scholarship to attend Dartington International Summer Courses, UK (1996), 2nd Prize from the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) at the international competition for electroacoustic music Short Cuts: Beauty, Germany (2006), numerous grants of the Open Society Fund Lithuania (Soros Foundation) to participate in multicultural projects in Ukraine, Moldova, Mongolia, China, and the Netherlands. In 2001 he was composer in residence at the Visby International Centre for Composers (Sweden). Vytautas Germanavi?ius was President of the Lithuanian Section of the ISCM in 1998-2005, and Artistic Director of the contemporary music festival Iš arti in 2001. Participated with the lecture "Real Time Interaction with the Computer in Performance" at the Asia Pacific Conference & Festival in Wellington, New Zealand (2007).