Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla was born into a family of musicians. Her father, a choral conductor, and her mother, a pianist, encouraged her instinctive desire to perform. “I spent my childhood in music-making,” she told the BBC in 2016. “When I was eleven, I said I can’t imagine any other profession than music. I got nervous that if I don’t start really learning things now, it will be too late.”
A move to Austria and a place at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz opened Gražinytė-Tyla’s mind to the possibility of broadening her musical horizons. She embraced the prospect of conducting orchestras and progressed to study at the Bologna Conservatory, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Music Conservatory in Leipzig and Zurich University of the Arts, and was discovered by the German Conducting Forum in April 2009.
Having been appointed Second Kapellmeister at the Theater Heidelberg in 2011, she then made her international breakthrough in 2012 when she won the prestigious Salzburg Young Conductors Award and went on to give her Salzburg Festival debut with the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester. The following year she was appointed First Kapellmeister at Bern Opera, and from 2015 to 2017 was Music Director of the Salzburg Landestheater.
A Gustavo Dudamel Fellow of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the 2012–13 season, she subsequently served as the orchestra’s Assistant Conductor for two seasons and as its Associate Conductor in 2016–17.
Now you have the opportunity to see Ms.Grazinyte-Tyla as she conducts the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
