"wonderfully poetic and
concise pianist"

Described as a “wonderfully poetic and concise pianist” (Kieler Nachrichten), Augustinas Eidukonis is a multi-award-winning musician, most recently winning the Possehl Music Prize in Lübeck in 2021: “Augustinas Eidukonis is unanimously chosen as a convincing, serious and unpretentious prizewinner who was able to inspire with his intimate and thoughtful interpretation,” said the jury.

Augustinas Eidukonis was born in 1995 in Vilnius, Lithuania, into a family of musicians. He received his first piano lessons at the age of 4. During his school years at the “M. K. Ciurlionis Art School” in Vilnius (teacher Vida Emilija Prekeryte), he was invited by the Rostropovich Foundation to take part in a project for talented young people (“National Student Academy”). He graduated from high school in 2014.

His piano studies took him to Germany. He first studied his Bachelor of Music at the Lübeck University of Music, majoring in solo piano and piano pedagogy (class of Prof. Konrad Elser). He then continued his studies and graduated in 2022 with a Master of Music (majoring in piano), also at the Lübeck University of Music, with top marks.

He has broadened his musical horizons abroad. In 2017/18 he studied at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Prof. Willem Brons as part of the Erasmus exchange program and in 2020/21 at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris with Prof. Marie-Josèphe Jude. He is currently continuing his piano studies at the École Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot in Paris.

As a multiple prizewinner, he won first prize at the 58th “Possehl Music Prize 2021” competition in Lübeck in 2021 and second prize at the XI International Competition “Lagny-sur-Marne” in France in 2017. In the same year, he won the “Steinway Förderpreis Klassik” at Steinway & Sons Hamburg.

He has been a scholarship holder of the Weiland Kulturstiftung Henning Hamkens since December 2015 and a scholarship holder of the Ad Infinitum Foundation since September 2016. Since 2019 he has been a scholarship holder of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Lübeck e. V.

Augustinas Eidukonis regularly plays at festivals and concerts in Lithuania, Poland, France, the Netherlands and Germany. Augustinas Eidukonis regularly takes part in masterclasses with Andrzej Jasiński, Jerome Lowenthal, Bernd Goetzke, Michel Béroff, Eugen Indjic and Michael Lewin, among others.