Giedrius Kuprevičius

Giedrius Antanas Kuprevičius (born April 8, 1944 in Kaunas) is a Lithuanian composer and music educator.

The composer's numerous contributions to methodological literature include a work entitled "Music in Theatre".

His official posts have included: First Assistant to the Lithuanian Minister of Culture, and Executive Head of Artistic Affairs (1988-1990), and Kaunas municipality deputy mayor (1992-1993).

In 2014 Giedrius Kuprevičius was awarded the Lithuanian National Arts and Culture Prize, the highest artistic distinction in Lithuania.

His musical, Fire Hunt with Beaters [lt], was produced in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Ukraine, and Moldova.

His oratorio, "Creation of the World for the End of the 20th Century", was performed at the Kaunas Jazz festival in 1988, EXPO-2000 in Hanover, and at an international forum in Vienna.

Giedrius Kuprevičius' music is moderately modern, based mostly on melodic development and augmentation of rhythmic patterns.

Giedrius Kuprevičius have constantly been co-working with Lithuanian media, writing articles on musical publicists and cultural issues in such journals as Muzikos bara, Santara, Humanistica, Nemunas and Kauno diena since 1968.