Barbora Valiukeviciute, violin instructor

Born in Kaunas, Lithuania, Barbora Valiukeviciute began her studies at the age of five at J. Naujalis Music Gymnasium. She has gone on to perform around the world, most recently at the Veronica Hagman Concert Hall and Staller Center for the Arts in the United States. She has also performed recitals at the Auditorium al Duomo in Florence, the Fukuoka Across Hall in Japan, the Metropolitan Museum Concert Hall in New York, and the National Philharmonic in Lithuania.

Barbora has served as co-concertmaster of the New York Symphonic Ensemble under the baton of Takahara Mamoru, leading the orchestra for five years in tours around the United States and Asia. As a guest concertmaster she led the Pan-European Philharmonic at the Aegean Music Festival in Greece. She has collaborated with many famous conductors and critically acclaimed musicians such as: Kurt Mazur, Vladimir Jurowski, Philippe Entremont, Juliam Rachlin, and Maxim Vengerov.

Her international performance tenure is wide-reaching, including chamber and solo music festivals and master classes at:
● ISA Music Festival (Austria),
● Mozarteum Summer Festival and Academy (Austria),
● Aurora Chamber Music Festival (Sweden),
● Eilat Chamber Music Festival (Israel),
● Bowdoin Music Festival (USA),
● further master classes with well-known musicians such as Vadim Gluzman, Pavel Vernikov, Mauricio Fuks,Michael Vaiman, and Hatto Beyerle.

Barbora regularly teaches master classes as a guest artist at Accademia d'Archi Arrigoni in Italy and previously taught at the  Barenboim-Said foundation in Palestine.

Barbora is currently at DePaul University in Chicago studying under Ilya Kaler. She also attended Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with Grigory Kalinovsky, and Stony Brook University with Philip Setzer.