Benediktas Galvydis was born in Lithuania in 2010 and began playing the piano at the age of five at the Juozas Karosas Music School in Klaipėda. From 2021 to January 2024, he studied at the M. K. Čiurlionis National School of Arts in Vilnius. He currently attends the Lycée Français International de Vilnius, where he combines his academic education with continued piano studies.
Benediktas has taken part in national and international piano competitions, concerts and festivals. In 2026, he became a laureate of the National Balys Dvarionas Competition. In the same year, he won the Grand Prix at the International Piano Competition “Piano con anima” and Second Prize at the XVII International Nikolai Rubinstein Piano Competition in Paris.
His earlier achievements include prizes at competitions in Lithuania, Italy, the Czech Republic and North Macedonia. Benediktas has also appeared as a soloist with the St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra. His repertoire includes works from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and contemporary periods.
If you are interested in working with Benediktas Galvydis, please get in touch with the EMCY Office.
Solo
J. S. Bach, Aria and Variations 1–3 from Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
J. S. Bach, Prelude and Fugue No. 2 in C minor, BWV 847, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
J. S. Bach, Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971 – I. Allegro
J. S. Bach, Fughetta in C minor, BWV 961
J. S. Bach, Sinfonia No. 15 in B minor, BWV 801
D. Scarlatti, Sonata in A major, K. 208
D. Cimarosa, Sonata in G major – Allegro
J. Haydn, Piano Sonata in C major, Hob. XVI:10 – I. movement
W. A. Mozart, Piano Sonata in B-flat major, K. 570
M. Clementi, Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor, Op. 25 No. 5 – I. Allegro con espressione
L. van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 – II. Allegretto and III. Presto agitato
L. van Beethoven, Bagatelle in A-flat major, Op. 33 No. 7 – Presto
F. Chopin, Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38
F. Chopin, Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor, Op. 66
F. Chopin, Étude in C major, Op. 10 No. 1
F. Chopin, Étude in G-flat major, Op. 10 No. 5
F. Chopin, Étude in C minor, Op. 10 No. 12
F. Chopin, Étude in A-flat major, Op. 25 No. 1
F. Chopin, Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9 No. 2
F. Chopin, Polonaise in G minor, B. 1
F. Liszt, Étude in D minor, Op. 1 No. 4, S. 136
F. Liszt, Étude in A-flat major, Op. 1 No. 9, S. 136
M. Moszkowski, Étude in F major, Op. 72 No. 6
M. K. Ogiński, Polonaise No. 2 in G major
M. K. Ogiński, Polonaise No. 3 in F minor
E. Satie, Sonatine bureaucratique
C. Debussy, Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum from Children’s Corner, L. 113
C. Debussy, Serenade for the Doll from Children’s Corner, L. 113
B. Dvarionas, Winter Sketches – Nos. 1, 2 and 5
B. Dvarionas, “By the Old Bell Tower” from 24 Piano Pieces
B. Dvarionas, Waltz-Impromptu “A Moment from the Past”
A. Khachaturian, Toccata in E-flat minor
A. Ginastera, “Danza del viejo boyero” from Three Argentinian Dances, Op. 2 No. 1
A. Copland, The Cat and the Mouse: Scherzo humoristique
P. Sancan, Toccata in F-sharp minor
O. Taktakishvili, In the Mountains
L. Liebermann, Nocturne No. 4, Op. 29
C. Vine, Five Bagatelles – No. 5, “Threnody”
With orchestra
J. Haydn, Keyboard Concerto in F major, Hob. XVIII:7 – I. Moderato
J. Haydn, Piano Concerto No. 11 in D major, Hob. XVIII:11 – I. Vivace
J. Andrejevas, Mini-Concerto
