Elena Cicinskaite

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Elena Cicinskaite

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Elena Cicinskaite (born in 12.12.1972 in Vilnius, Lithuania) has started her musical activities as a
singer in various choirs in Vilnius, with which has participated in several choir music festivals both
in Lithuania and abroad ( Latvia, Germany, Finland, Poland).

Has started her amateur lute studies and activities in the field of the early music with the ensemble
“Banchetto Musicale” from Vilnius, just before getting her B.Phil. degree in psycology at the State
University of Vilnius (in 1996).

In 1997 E.Cicinskaite came to study the lute with the prof. Paul Beier at the International Accademy
of Music of Milan, after having won the “Marco Fodella” Foundation scolarship for the early music
studies. In 2000 proceeds in deepening her knowledge of the theory and practise of the lute and
theorbo playing (both solistic and in chamber music) at the State Institute of Music “F.Vittadini” of
Pavia, with the prof. Massimo Lonardi.

Since 2002 E.Cicinskaite is having an intense musical activity, both as a soloist and cooperating
with different soloists (a soprano Kathrine Brandt, a violinist Silvia Colli, etc.) and Renaissance and
Baroque music groups, such as “Francesca Caccini Ensemble”, “Del Suonar di Corde e di Fiato”,
“Accademia Antica Monteverdi” and others, with which she has taken part in various early music
festivals both in Italy and abroad, such as “Borghi e Valli d’Oltrepò”,the International Chamber
Music Festival of Cervo, Amager Musikfestival in Copenhagen, the Chamber Music Festival in
Tarnow (Poland), “Banchetto Musicale” and “Sugrizimai” festivals in Vilnius(Lithuania), etc.

E.Cicinskaite has participated in master classes and master courses held by internationally
acknowledged early music specialists, such as Paul O’Dette, Hopkinson Smith, Christopher Wilson
and others.

In 2006 she won the scholarship at the Dartington International Summer School (doing the
masterclasses with Martin Eastwell and collaborating with Emma Kirkby’s and Nick Clapton’s
masterclasses).

Anonimo - Bonny sweete Robyn (Elena Cicinskaite lute)


Francesco da Milano - Recercar (Elena Cicinskaite lute)
Francesco da Milano- Recercar ((Elena Cicinskaite lute)
John Dowland - Flow my teares (Elena Cicinskaite lute and Kathrine Brandt voice)
John Dowland – Lacrime (Elena Cicinskaite lute)
John Dowland - She can't excuse (Elena Cicinskaite lute and Kathrine Brandt voice)
John Dowland - Sir John Smith, his Almaine (Elena Cicinskaite lute)
John Dowland - The Lady Cliftons Spirit (Elena Cicinskaite lute)
John Dowland - Times stands still (Elena Cicinskaite lute and Kathrine Brandt voice)
Luis de Narvaez - Diferencias I 'Guardame las vaças' (Elena Cicinskaite lute)
Luis de Narvaez - Diferencias II sopra il Passamezzo (Elena Cicinskaite lute)
Luis Milàn - Fantasia IV tono (Elena Cicinskaite lute)
Luis Milàn - Fantasia VIII (Elena Cicinskaite lute)
Uccellini - Luciminia Scontenta (Ensemble: Del sonar con corde e fiati...)

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