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A discussion from Kaunas Piano Fest 2021, a piano festival in Lithuania which I host yearly since 2018. My guest - Neringa Valuntonytė is a Lithuanian pianist who gathers audiences throughout Europe with a big variety of solo and chamber music repertoire. Always searching for different performance ideas, Neringa is currently running a doctorate research at Lithuanian academy of music and theatre o...

A discussion curated by Kaunas Piano Fest and led by festival director Monika Mašanauskaitė and Tomas Gumauskas. My guest - Tomas Gumauskas | a co-founder of Youtube channel "Serija F" about financial literacy for youth.  Support the podcast Check out more info about the host Monika Lozinskienė www.monikapianiste.com/ instagram Topics touched: - Can I invest without having a stable income? - Shoul...

A discussion curated by Kaunas Piano Fest and led by me and Rūta Sudakovienė .  Rūta holds a Master's degree in sports psychology and now she actively coaches athletes, dancers as well as figure skaters. Rūta runs an Instagram profile where she educates about sports psychology including tips to reaching your performance peak.  Support the podcast Check out more info about the host Monika Lozinskie...

On my 21st episode  I invited  my stage partner, pianist from Poland, currently living in London, Anna Szalucka. In the beginning of June, 2021 we were running a project in Modern museum in Lithuania where we performed S. Reich's piece "Piano phase" for two pianos. We called this project INSTALLATION "Piano phase" and on purpose hosted it in the museum  so  the listeners would have freedom to choo...

In this conversation I talked with Laurynas - a CO-founder of Urban Vilnius city dance theatre "Low air". More than 40% of the theatre's performances are shown abroad. The company has represented Lithuanian dance culture at various international festivals and culture fairs such as Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Internationale “tanzmesse nrw”, Dance International Glasgow and etc. Laurynas holds sev...

Michelle is a musician based in the Netherlands where she performs, runs concert series, teaches and coaches at the The Fearless Artist Mastermind. During the Covid-19 she came up with a challenge #killingperfectionisminclassical which helped many musicians reduce their inner critic and start treating our playing  from a different angle. We talked about social media, finding your people, being fea...

Kamile Marmaite is a professionally trained naturopathic nutrition specialist. She helps people to battle fatigue, tiredness, low energy levels and more serious symptoms by explaining healthy daily life habits that can make us feel better. Did you know that what you eat can directly influence your motivation and moods? As for musicians, we rarely realize that our body is our instrument and if we w...

Avo Kouyoumdjian is currently my piano professor at the MDW - University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna where I study Chamber music masters. Born in Beirut, Lebanon to a family of Armenian descent Avo began his studies when he was 12 years old at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Since then he founded International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition and in 2002 he...

Akvilė Kavaliauskaitė is a Lithuanian writer and journalist. In 2015 she published her first book "Two Lives In One Summer" and in 2020 her second book - collection of short stories "Bodies". I turned to Akvilė hoping to get some remedies or secrets about easing the writing process and dealing with lack of inspiration or motivation as a creator. Interestingly, according to Akvilė,  if you want to...

Violinist Lukas Medlam is a British-Austrian violinist, composer and a graduated physicist. Lukas was homeschooled by his musician parents till his teens while they were at the peak of their careers with the Baroque London Players ensemble. After studying at the Purcell School of Music and the Royal College of Music in London, Lukas have decided to make a dramatic change and went to study physics...

Barbara's Oakley work focuses on the complex relationship between neuroscience and social behavior. Barbara has a degree in more than 4 different study fields, including Systems Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Slavic Languages and Literature, Defense Language Institute and more. She has worked at South Pole Station in Antarctica, served four years in Germany as a Signal Officer,...

In this conversation you will hear an inspiring musician Sibila Konstantinova who also happens to be my piano teacher at the University of Music and Arts in Vienna, where as of 2013, she became an assistant of prof. Avedis Kouyoumdjian and since 2019 also a lecturer of piano chamber music. In this conversation we talked about how competitive environment in London has shaped Sibila as a musician, c...

In this conversation  you will hear Bruce Devereux from Canada who is a recreation & volunteer manager at the Christenson Village   care centre. Bruce takes care of many creative activities which includes the residents at the care centre. In 2020 Bruce launched a podcast called "The creatively engaging" where he investigated the idea of "ageism". What is ageism and how it relates to our societies?...

"I'm not a marketer, but I don't think it's very hard to have a 35 year old person in a sweater and jeans in a picture going into a concert, just to show people that that's fine." - Joshua Weilerstein. In this talk with Joshua Weilerstein we discussed about the classical music world and how as musicians we could make it more accessible for wider audiences. Joshua produces and is a host of his own...

Fali Pavri was my mentor and piano teacher at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland for two years. He was born in India and after finishing his degree in chemistry, he decided to move to Moscow where his professional musical journey began. While still a student, he was invited by the great Russian cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich to be his pianist on an extensive concert tour of India. How cool is tha...

A conversation with a cellist and doctor Paul van Houtte from New Zealand. I met Paul in 2019 when I did my Erasmus exchange in Vienna. He came to Vienna from New Zealand for his medical internship in one of the hospitals. Just minutes after we met, I was soon to find out that medical studies is not the first degree Paul has. He is also a professional cellist who has played in concert halls such a...

A conversation with Angela Myles Beeching - a career specialist and an author of Beyond Talent: Creating a Successful Career in Music.  In this conversation I was curious to reveal how people whose work is to motivate others, found motivation  in 2020 themselves. Angela is a world's top leading career coach and mentor for musicians. Her work is based on helping musicians to find meaning and their...

Lithuanian dancer, movement teacher and philosopher Justas Kučinskas shares his knowledge about human development and how dance has encouraged him to always think out of the box and bring his consciousness to the next level.  We discussed about competition in arts and how one can only be better than somebody else in things that are measurable. We also talked about the relationship between growth a...

"Punishing oneself for not doing something is a great way to not do something". A conversation with meditation practitioner and teacher Shannon M Whitaker who says that meditation is not about calming down.  Curious? If yes, join me and Shannon to talk about what it means to be skillful in the given  moment, also to learn how "Hedonic Tones" impacts our life and  finally how Shannon travelled from...

A conversation with performance coach, piano teacher and a founder of Mental Skills Lab . In this lab she invites performers from various fields to explore their thinking, emotions and behavior. Donata studied in an unique place - The Centre for Performance Science in London where she did her research in Mental Toughness in musicians. What can musician learn from a surgeon and what can surgeon lea...

Contemporary artist Marija Baranauskaitė explains how she reached a point in her life where she needed to learn to be individually free and happy with what she was doing. Otherwise, she says, you are always depending on others. This is where she started investigating objects surrounding her and The Sofa Project was born. In this episode you will learn what effect this project had on me and what it...

Have you ever done something very different from your own profession and found similarities? With Jon, we found that cooking in the kitchen can be as similar as preparing for a performance. In this talk we also discussed about Jon's experience as an orchestra musician, what is his approach toward making music, success and failure. With some added seasoning of Jon's humor the conversation turned ou...

Have you ever been on stage and lost yourself completely? I think we all have, at least once. Anna had this experience too. "...I got this black out, I just stopped. I looked at the audience and I said 'I'm sorry, I don't know what happened'. Everyone was dead silent". Listen to the full story of what happened after Anna finished one of the most difficult piece from piano repertoire the Beethoven'...

An interview with insightful Natania Hoffman about growing up in a family of musicians, life choices, education, love for music, biggest gift for listeners and podcasting. American cellist is currently pursuing a master's degree in chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin with her trio "Trio Agora". Support the podcast  Monika's Instagram  Find out more about Natania's conc...

Check out more info about the host Monika Lozinskienė www.monikapianiste.com https://www.instagram.com/monikapianiste/ support the podcast  International piano masterclasses and festival "Kaunas Piano Fest " in Lithuania https://www.kaunaspianofest.com/ https://www.facebook.com/kaunaspianofest/ https://www.instagram.com/kaunaspianofest/?hl=en First episode with american cellist Natania Hoffman is...