Rūta Zaikauskaitė

Rūta Zaikauskaitė (mezzo-soprano) was born on June 15^th, 1969 in Prienai. There she studied in the Secondary School No 2 and in the Music School. She entered Gruodis High School in 1985 and studied choir conducting, later continued her studies of vocal singing. She graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and received a Master’s degree in solo singing in 1998. A year before graduation she started working as a singer in the Kaunas State Musical Theatre. She successfully creates various music programs and participated in them herself. Rūta collaborates with Naujalis string quartet, Čiurlionis string quartet and other orchestras to create different performances. Rūta organized many various solo singing programs in Kaunas Kaunas State Philharmony, Panevėžys Musical Theatre and in the Artists’ House in Kaunas and Vilnius. She received the Fortūna diploma in 2010 for her role as Charity in Sweet Charity by Cy Coleman.