Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla was discovered by the German Conducting Forum – Deutscher Dirigentenforum in April 2009 and has since benefitted from their conducting program and support.

Praised as a dynamic, profound and extremely talented young conductor, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, was one of the revelations of the 2009 Kurt Masur Conducting Seminar in Bonn, Germany on "the Art of Conducting Beethoven". As a result she was invited back to Bonn in December 2009 by the Beethoven Orchester and its music director Stefan Blunier to participate in the "Beethoven Night". In addition, Maestro Kurt Masur has invited her to share the podium with him and two other conductors for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in December 2010 - Mirga will be conducting the second movement of the symphony.

Highlights of the 2009/2010 season include a production of Traviata in Osnabrück as assistant to music director's Hermann Bäumer, concerts with the MDR Orchestra Leipzig with Stravinsky's "Firebird" and a collaboration with the Bergische Symphoniker, Remscheid, Germany, which has, entrusted to her all its educational concerts for the 2009/2010 season.

A native of Vilnius, Lithuania, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla was born into a musical family. Before pursuing her studies at the Music Conservatory Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig in 2008, she graduated with a bachelor degree in choral and orchestral conducting from the University of Music and Fine Arts, Graz, Austria. From 2007 until 2008 she furthered her studies at the Music Conservatory in Bologna, Italy. She has participated in numerous master classes and conducting workshops and worked with many established conductors and professors such as Christian Ehwald, George Alexander Albrecht, Johannes Schlaefli, Collin Metters and Kurt Masur.

In 2007 she was the recipient of the First Prize of the International Competition for Young Choral Conductors in Budapest, Hungary and in 2008 she won the third prize at the International Conducting Competition in Stavanger, Norway.

March 2010