Diana Cemeryte

Diana Cemeryte
* 1974 in Panevezys/Litauen
Diana Čemerytė made her first attempts at composi­tion at the age of nine. After studying composition and music theory at the Vilnius Conservatory, she stud­ied composition with Osvaldas Balakauskas at the Lithuanian Academy of Music in Vilnius from 1994 to 2000.
From 2003 to 2006 she expanded her education by studying musicology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Diana Čemerytė has received various commissions for compositions and is a regular guest at contemporary music festivals and concerts in Lithuania and across Europe. Her works include chamber music, such as string quartets, choral music, orchestral pieces, as well as two ­chil­dren’s operas.
As a freelance composer, Diana Čemerytė lives in Frankfurt am Main and was a recipient of the Frankfurt Mozart Foundation scholarship from 2004 to 2005.