Rimvydė Muzikevičiūtė
Chamber Musician and Soliost Saxophonist
Lithuania

In the field of chamber music, playing in duo with pianist Guoda Indriūnaitė, she won prizes at the International Chamber Music Competitions such as “Muziciejam kopa ar draugiem“ in Riga, “Musical Aquarell“ in Lithuania, and Festival-Competition “In Corpore“ in Estonia.
Rimvydė performs regularly as a tenor saxophonist with the “Dolomiti Saxophone Quartet”. They successfully performed at the World Expo 2015 in Milan, several editions of SaxArts Festival in Faenza (Italy), where in 2017 they received a scholarship from one of the most important Italian saxophone artists Federico Mondelci, and at the XVIII International Music Festival “Sugrįžimai” (Lithuania) in 2016. The quartet won the first prize at the International Competition “Città di Bardolino” and the second prize at the 23rd National Chamber Music Competition “Giulio Rospigliosi”.
Apart from acknowledgements in classical music, she won two second prizes at the International “Jazz Fountain” Competition in Lithuania (2008, 2009) and had an opportunity to be a part of MAI (Music Academy International) in 2017, participating at the production of the musical “Chicago” under the guidance of Mo Jason DeBord (University of Michigan).
Additionally, in 2015 she was selected as a first alto saxophone player of the EUYWO (European Union Youth Wind Orchestra) for concerts in Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
While playing in RWO (Rovereto Wind Orchestra), she had an opportunity to perform a premiere of Sinfonia “Gli Arcangeli” by F. Cesarini at the Opera Theatre of Florence for the 79th season of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
In 2011, she received the Appreciation Certificate from the president of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė and in 2016 from the Mayor of the city of Vilnius.
In 2016, Ms. Muzikevičiūtė became a Légère Reeds Ltd. Canada Endorsing Artist.