Romualdas Gražinis

Artistic Director of the AIDIJA Chamber Choir, he received his training at the M. K. Čiurlionis Secondary School of Art in Vilnius and at the Lithuanian State Conservatory. He continued his studies at the Paris Conservatory, where he focused on Gregorian chant, and at the Boulogne-Billancourt Conservatory under Prof. P. Calmelet. In 1994, Gražinis attended a conducting masterclass at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen, taught by P. Phillips, a renowned British expert on early choral music. Beginning in 1982, Gražinis became a member of the Vilnius New Music Ensemble. During his military service, from 1985 to 1987, he founded a wind instrument orchestra and an early music ensemble. From 1989 to 1995 he sang with the “Cantores Chorales Capellae St. Casimiri” at Vilnius Cathedral. During the periods from 1993 to 1998 and 2005 to 2006, Gražinis worked as a vocal instructor at St. Joseph Seminary in Vilnius. From 2006 to 2016, he was a member and first cantor of the “Schola Cantorum Vilnensis.” Gražinis has taught choir conducting at the “National M.K. Čiurlionis Art School” since 1983 and has been the director of the school’s senior mixed student choir since 1994. Gražinis is a regular director of Lithuanian song festivals, and his former students have become successful conductors around the world.