GENERAL MANAGEMENT
Associate Artist City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
In 2016, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla was appointed Music Director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, succeeding conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Sakari Oramo and Andris Nelsons. The CBSO has since given numerous acclaimed performances under her direction, including guest appearances and tours worldwide. She stepped down as music director at the end of the 21/22 season, but remains closely connected to the orchestra as Associate Artist.
Recent highlights include Britten's War Requiem at the Salzburg Festival, a new production of Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen at the Bayerische Staatsoper, as well as guest appearances with Münchner Philharmoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Accademia di Santa Cecilia and Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla’s projects in 2023/24 encompass returns to Sinfonieorchester Basel, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as to Münchner Philharmoniker at home and on tour (Lucerne, Cologne and Berlin). Debuts in this season include the New York Philharmonic, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and Teatro Real Madrid with a new production of Mieczysław Weinberg's The Passenger.
A native of Vilnius, Lithuania, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla was born into a musical family. She graduated with a…
Associate Artist City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
In 2016, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla was appointed Music Director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, succeeding conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Sakari Oramo and Andris Nelsons. The CBSO has since given numerous acclaimed performances under her direction, including guest appearances and tours worldwide. She stepped down as music director at the end of the 21/22 season, but remains closely connected to the orchestra as Associate Artist.
Recent highlights include Britten's War Requiem at the Salzburg Festival, a new production of Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen at the Bayerische Staatsoper, as well as guest appearances with Münchner Philharmoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Accademia di Santa Cecilia and Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla’s projects in 2023/24 encompass returns to Sinfonieorchester Basel, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as to Münchner Philharmoniker at home and on tour (Lucerne, Cologne and Berlin). Debuts in this season include the New York Philharmonic, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and Teatro Real Madrid with a new production of Mieczysław Weinberg's The Passenger.
A native of Vilnius, Lithuania, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla was born into a musical family. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in choral and orchestral conducting from the University of Music and Fine Arts, Graz, Austria. Afterwards she continued to study at the Music Conservatory in Bologna, the Music Conservatory in Leipzig and the Music Conservatory in Zurich.
From 2011-14 she worked as Kapellmeister at the Theater and Orchester Heidelberg and at the Konzert Theater Bern, before being appointed Music Director of the Salzburger Landestheater
(2015-17).
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla's debut CD was released by Deutsche Grammophon in spring 2019. It delighted critics and listeners worldwide, was hailed as a significant contribution to the rediscovery of Mieczysław Weinberg's œuvre, and won both the Opus Klassik and Grammophon Awards in 2020. The recordings were made with the participation of City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica and Gidon Kremer. This was followed by a portrait album of the Lithuanian composer Raminta Šerkšnytė for DG and "The British Project" with works by Britten, Elgar, Walton and Vaughan Williams. On the latest release, the young conductor again turns her attention to the works of Weinberg.
… simply by being who she is and doing what she does, Gražinytė-Tyla might yet turn out to be one of the artists who define our century.
