Darius Mažintas (born 7 March 1982 in

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) is a

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

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Biography

Mažintas studied at the

National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art () was founded in 1945 in Vilnius, Lithuania. It is named after the famous Lithuanian painter and composer Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis since 1965. It is the only such school in Lithuania, spannin ...

beginning in 1988. In 2000 he graduated from the

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School of Music and from 2005 to 2006 he pursued further studies at Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in

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, Italy. In 2010 he completed a

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degree at

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.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

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."Slovenská filharmónia uvedie koncert mladých umelcov"
, HN online, 21 February 2011 In March 2013 he succeeded

Faustas Latėnas Faustas Latėnas (16 May 19563 November 2020) was a Lithuanian composer, theatre manager, politician and diplomat. He composed mostly incidental music, and also scores for films and television. He was vice-minister of the Lithuanian Ministry of C ...

as Lithuanian Vice Minister for Culture, deputy to

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, in the

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