Debut recital by Martyna Jatkauskaitė at Wigmore Hall
November 30, December 4, 2008. Lithuanian pianist Martyna Jatkauskaitė on 30th November, 7.30 pm, performs her debut recital at Wigmore Hall. This opportunity is the prize for the 2007 Jaques Samuel Pianos Intercollegiate Piano Competition. The programme of the recital will include the works by Beethoven, Prokofiev, Schumann, Debussy and Rachmaninov.
Since 2003 Martyna Jatkauskaitė studied at the Lithuanian Academy of Music under Professor Veronika Vitaitė and in 2005 she won the Baltic State Scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she is studying under Professor Joan Havill. She received a First Class Bachelor Diploma in Music with Honours (2007) and is now studying for a Masters Degree of Music in Music Performance.
In her first year at the Guildhall School she won Robert Alexander Wise Award, Romantic Music Price, the Oxford Music Festival Professional Recital Prize as well as the Tunbridge Wells International Young Concert Artists Competition 2006. In 2007 Dudley International Piano Competition she was awarded Margaret Allen Memorial Prize and in the same year as recipient of the Martin/Philharmonia Award 2007/08 she gave a recital at the Royal Festival Hall (London) in November 2007.
Martyna continued her success by wining the Jacques Samuel Intercollegiate Competition in 2007 which offered a debut recital at The Wigmore Hall, recital at The Fazioli Concert Hall in Italy and a concerto performance with the London Festival Orchestra at the Cadogan Hall.
Her next piano recital is on 4 December, 1.05pm, at LSE (London School of Economics), Shaw Library, Old Building.
