Žibuoklė Martinaitytė

Discipline: Composing

Based In: New York, NY

Year at Millay: 2012

Awards/Honors: Prize Winner, Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania (2022); Fellow, Music Composition, Guggenheim Fellowship, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY (2020); Fellow, Music, The Bogliasco Center, Bogliasco, Italy (2020); Fellow, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2019, 2011, 2009); Artist-in-Residence, Copland House Residency, Copland House, Cortlandt, NY (2019, 2010); Artist-in-Residence, Willapa Bay AIR, Oysterville, WA (2018); Artist-in-Residence, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA (2017); Artist-in-Residence, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (2015).

Website: https://www.zibuokle.com/

Žibuoklė Martinaitytė is a Lithuanian composer based in New York City. In 2022, she was awarded the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts. In 2020 Martinaitytė received Guggenheim Fellowship and the Lithuanian Government Prize for Culture and Arts for her creative achievements. Her work In Search of Lost Beauty… received two gold medals at the Global Music Awards for Best Composer and Best Album.

Martinaitytė’s music has been performed throughout Europe, the United States, and Asia by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, The Smith Quartet, ERGO Ensemble, TILT Brass, Yarn/Wire, VOLTI, San Francisco, The Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, The Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, The Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Synaesthesis Ensemble and others.