Gintaras Rinkevičius

In 1985 he won the Herbert von Karajan Fund International Competition for Conductors in Berlin.

He has conducted performances in Salzburg, the Royal Albert Hall in London, and the Champs Elysées Theatre in Paris, as well as in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Rinkevičius continues to work in Lithuania, staging operas at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, serving as chief conductor and artistic director of the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, and as a professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.

He has used these opportunities to introduce a number of original compositions by Lithuanian composers, including A Letter to all the Congregation by Algirdas Martinaitis and Agnus Dei by Feliksas Bajoras.

Since September 2007 Gintaras Rinkevičius is also an artistic director and principal conductor of the Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra.