Karolina Juodelyte
Karolina Juodelytė was born in Vilnius, studied organ and musicology at the Lithuanian Academy of Music & Theatre. She completed further organ studies at the University of Music & Performing Arts in Vienna, at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold (concert exam organ with Prof. Dr. M. Sander) and at the Universität der Künste in Berlin (church music A).
Numerous prizes as well as an official acknowledgement by the Lithuanian President confirm her excellent qualities as an organist, who received the 1st place at the international M.K.Čiurlionis Competition 2011 in Vilnius and additionally six special prizes. She received further prizes at the int. L.Janacek competition in Brno (Czech Republic) and in Poland ( Gdansk & Bialystok), among others. In 2019 Karolina Juodelyte was a prize winner at the international competition in Shanghai (China) and in 2020 she received the 3rd prize at the 8th international F. Schmidt competition in Vienna.
Since 2017 Karolina Juodelyte has played all world premieres of organ pieces by contemporary Lithuanian composers on the occasion of the International Musicology Conference in Lithuania. At the end of 2020 she recorded the CD "The Road to Silence" with contemporary Lithuanian organ music. She has recorded other CDs with the Lithuanian String Quartet (Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society, 2013), with opera singer Nora Petročenko ("MAMA Studios," 2016), and with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra (Odradek Records, 2018).