Darius Mažintas (born 7 March 1982 in Vilnius) is a

Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...

n pianist and politician. Since March 2013 to September 2014 he has been Vice Minister for Culture.

Biography

Mažintas studied at the National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art beginning in 1988. In 2000 he graduated from the Balys Dvarionas School of Music and from 2005 to 2006 he pursued further studies at Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Como, Italy. In 2010 he completed a Candidate of Sciences degree at

Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre The Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in Vilnius, Lithuania, is a state-supported conservatory that trains students in music, theatre, and multimedia arts. History Composer Juozas Naujalis founded a music school in 1919 in Kaunas. This ...

.Kultūros viceministro pareigas pradėjo eiti Darius Mažintas
, Ministry of Culture, Republic of Lithuania As a concert pianist, he has taken part in the Arthur Rubinstein competition in France (2003), the International Stasys Vainiūnas competition in Lithuania (2000) and the Konzerteum in Greece (1998), represented Lithuania with

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Gleb Pyšniakas at the

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for young musicians in the Netherlands in 2009, and performed in several countries, for example in 2011 in

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with the Slovak Philharmonic."Slovenská filharmónia uvedie koncert mladých umelcov"
, HN online, 21 February 2011 In March 2013 he succeeded Faustas Latėnas as Lithuanian Vice Minister for Culture, deputy to

Šarūnas Birutis Šarūnas Birutis (born September 20, 1961 in Šiauliai) is a Lithuanian politician. He was a member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party from 2004 to 2009. In the parliament he joined the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. ...

, in the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mazintas, Darius 1982 births Living people Musicians from Vilnius Lithuanian politicians Lithuanian classical pianists 21st-century classical pianists