Rokas Zubovas - pianist, organiser of cultural events and festivals, great-grandson of M. K. Čiurlionis.

He studied at the Lithuanian Academy of Music. R. Zubovas holds a Master's degree from De Paul University in Chicago. He studied with pianist Esther Elinaite at the Henrik Neihauz Institute in Zurich, pianist Andrius Kuprevičius in Cleveland, pianist Edward Auer in Bloomington. From 1994 to 2000 R. Zubovas taught in the music department of Saint Xavier University in Chicago.

In his concert repertoire and in his other activities, Zubovas has a special interest in promoting the creative legacy of M. K. Čiurlionis. Since 2014, he has been the director of the M. K. Čiurlionis House in Vilnius, the organiser of the Druskininkai Summer with Čiurlionis festival, and one of the initiators of the National M. K. Čiurlionis Route.

In 2005, a CD of works by M. K. Čiurlionis, recorded by R. Zubovas, was released, "Čiurlionis. Works for piano 1896-1899". He continued the work started by the German pianist Nikolaus Lahusen (1960-2005) and recorded all of Čiurlionis' piano works. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Čiurlionis's death in 2011, they were published together with the book written by Rokas Zubovas himself, "M. K. Čiurlionis". In the summer of 2013, the British director Robert Mullan's film "Letters to Sofija" was released in cinemas, where Zubovas played the leading role, embodying his famous great-grandfather.

tag-kind-ciurlionistics-culture