[1] Vysniauskas has previously worked with such musicians as Steve Lacy, Han Bennink, Jon Christensen, Kent Carter, Tomas Kutavičius, Elliott Sharp, Paul Jeffrey, the Rova Saxophone Quartet, Charlie Mariano, Karl Berger, Bobo Stenson, Reiner Winterschladen, Hilliard Greene, Vijay Iyer, Robert Dick, John Lindberg, Eric Vloeimans, Mark Tokar and others.
He also directs the quartet Poksis with Lithuanian guitarist Juozas Milasius, Russian double bass player Vladimir Volkov and drummer Klaus Kugel.
Critic Bert Noglik wrote about Petras Vysniauskas: "His music breathes some of the austere beauty of the Lithuanian landscape and the passion of many of his compatriots.
Vysniauskas by his own account "in Lithuanian folk songs, [hears] echoes of the music of John Coltrane", which he tries to combine with the free expression of today's jazz.
He is one of the most acclaimed musicians of his country, having been decorated with multiple awards, including Musician of the Year of the Soviet Union in the 1980s, Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, the Lithuanian National Arts and Culture Prize, the Baltic Assembly Prize for the Arts and the award of the Vilnius Jazz Festival.