Evelina Puzaite

Evelina was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, and was first taught piano by her mother Irena. Evelina made her concert debut as a pianist aged 11, and in the same year secured a place to study at the National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art under Jurate Karosait. Aged 18 she won a full scholarship to study at the Guildhall School in London under Joan Havill

Evelina has won prizes at 12 international piano competitions including First Prize at the Rubinstein Piano Competition in Paris (1997), Second Prize in the International Competition of Belgrade, Serbia (1997), First Prize in Tel-Hai International Piano Competition, Israel (1999), Third Prize in M.K. Čiurlionis International Competition (1999),Second Prize at the Grodno Composers' Competition in Belarus (2000). She was a finalist at the Guildhall School of Music gold medal in 2004[5] and a semi finalist at the Top of the World International Piano Competition, Tromsø, Norway in 2009. In 2006, Evelina unanimously won the Abstract Securities Landor Competition [and was awarded a long term recording contract with Landor Records.

Evelina made the first of several performances at the Wigmore Hall in 2007 and has played regularly under different conductors with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra/Antoni Wit/Alan Buribaev/Cyril Diederich. In 2011, she was twice invited to play with the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra under Barry Wordsworth, and was featured on radio BBC3 ‘In-Tune’ with Sean Rafferty. In 2012, Evelina made her solo Carnegie Hall debut, and her solo debut at the Rudolfinum, Prague in 2013, and the Cadogan hall in London in 2014. Evelina relocated to the USA in 2015,  and played the Myra Hess Memorial concert series in Chicago, followed by solo concerts in Cleveland, New York and DC. 

Evelina specializes in performance skills,  exam and concert preparation, musicianship and building confidence. Many of her students have earned music scholarships to prestigious music schools.