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First name: Zita
Last name: Bruzaité
Dates: 1966
Category: Quartet
Nationality: Lithuanian
Opus name: Milky Way (2012)
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Information: Zita Bružait? (b.1966) graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music (1994), composition class of Prof. Julius Juzeli?nas. In 1998, together with the violinist Ilona Klusait?, the composer founded the chamber music ensemble "Collegium" of variable line-up, performing 20th century repertoire. In 2002 and 2004 Bružait? participated in the creative workshops "Objective 1 = Art = Objective 1 - EU-wide-enlargement" in Eisenstadt (Austria). In the beginning of 2003 she was composer-in-residence at the Visby International Centre for Composers (Gotland, Sweden). In the same year she was awarded the prize for the best work in the category of music for large ensemble (Fading Dance) at the competition of the Lithuanian Composers' Union, also became a laureate of the "Musical Autumn" festival, and was acknowledged as a most memorable composer at the "Iš arti" contemporary music festival. Since 2007 Zita Bružait? has been chair of Kaunas Division of the Lithuanian Composers' Union and director of the contemporary music festival "Iš arti". In 2009 she was appointed chair of the Lithuanian Composers' Union.