Pianist and artist-researcher Neringa Valuntonytė explores artistic identity through performance, investigating how musical personas and alter egos can transform the relationship between performer, music, and audience. Drawing on artistic research, movement, and visual storytelling, she creates concept-driven recital projects in which performative identities become artistic tools for interpreting both traditional and contemporary repertoire. Each programme is built around a distinct artistic concept that shapes not only the interpretation of the music but also the performer’s physical presence, stage environment, and relationship with the audience.
Following the completion of her Art Doctorate in Music in 2025, Neringa has continued to develop her artistic research through performance, creating long-term performative personas that explore questions of identity, embodiment, and self-perception. These ideas form the conceptual foundation of her current artistic projects, including her upcoming debut album One. Two.
Neringa has performed throughout Germany, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Austria, and Lithuania, presenting both solo and chamber music programmes. She has appeared with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Vilnius University Chamber Orchestra, the Panevėžys Musical Theatre Symphony Orchestra, the Lviv Chamber Orchestra “Akademia”, and the Szczecin Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. She has collaborated with conductors including Modestas Jankūnas, Martynas Bražas, Vidmantas Kapučinskas, Ihor Pylatiuk, Christian Frattima, Modestas Barkauskas, and Maria Sydor.
In 2025, Neringa was awarded an Art Doctorate in Music from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre for her artistic research project Creating an Academic Musician’s Persona: From Stage to Personal Brand. Her research investigates how performative identity can function as an artistic and interpretative framework within contemporary classical performance.
Among the milestones of her early career, Neringa was awarded Third Prize at the VIII International M. K. Čiurlionis Piano and Organ Competition in 2019. As part of the competition, she performed Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Modestas Pitrėnas.
Alongside her artistic practice, Neringa is also active in higher music education, teaching career development and professional practice for emerging musicians.
Neringa completed her Master’s degree at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media under Prof. Ewa Kupiec, following her Bachelor’s studies at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre under Prof. Aleksandra Žvirblytė.
Updated: July 2026