Ugnė Liepa Žuklytė

Violin, Royal College of Music

Lithuanian violinist Ugnė Liepa Žuklytė made her solo debut with orchestra at the age of eight and her concerto debut with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra at the age of twelve, performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic. She has won numerous national and international violin competitions and has been awarded the Medal of Queen Morta for her achievements.

Ugnė has participated in masterclasses with distinguished soloists and violin professors, such as Maxim Vengerov, Zakhar Bron, Boris Garlitsky, Miriam Fried, Pavel Berman, Marianne Piketty, Eszter Haffner, Sergey Krylov, Lynn Chang and Alina Ibragimova. An ABRSM Scholar, she is currently studying with Professor Radu Blidar at the Royal College of Music, London. In 2021 Ugnė was supported by the Henry Wood Accommodation Trust, and in 2023 she received the Harrison-Frank Family Foundation Award.

Honorary conductor of the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Professor Juozas Domarkas, has said about Ugnė: ‘She is an exceptionally gifted and serious young artist with excellent natural technical and emotional features, and most importantly, a serious attitude towards the subject-matter of the music she is performing, as well as the original idea of the composer, which is rarely representative for musicians of young age.’

From 2012 to 2018, Ugnė was supported by the Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation. This Summer she spent six weeks at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Maine, US, participating in a fellowship program on a full scholarship. She was supported by Sharon Abbot.