Povilas Čiurlionis (1884-1945) pianist, organist, choirmaster, architect. The closest brother of M.K. Čiurlionis. He was very talented in music, which he received from his father and brother.

Konstantinas highly valued his brother's talents. Povilas was a very good piano player and often surprised his brother with his technique.

Around 1898-1899 he studied at St. From 1881 to 1890, he attended a secondary school in St. Petersburg and took piano lessons privately. From 1899 to 1902 (intermittently) he lived in Warsaw, where, together with his brother M. K. Čiurlionis, he studied piano, organ and composition at the Warsaw Music Institute. In 1901-1902 he played the French horn at Plungė Orchestra School. In 1903 he lived in Vilnius.

Avoiding conscription into the army of Tsarist Russia, he left for the USA in 1904 thanks to the efforts of his brother Konstantin. There he studied architecture at Columbia University in New York and gave private music lessons. In 1912, he began to play the organ at St. Casimir's Lithuanian Parish in Worcester. He organised the Lithuanian Male Choir and the first Lithuanian orchestra in the USA.

From 1913 he taught at the Mikas Petrauskas School of Music in Brooklyn, gave concerts as a pianist and concertmaster, and was organist and choir director at St. Francis Lithuanian Parish in Lawrence.

While living in the USA, he started a family and had four children.

In 1920, he returned to Lithuania and settled in Kaunas, where he taught perspective, mechanical drawing, and music for many years at the Kaunas School of Art, designing and building schools, residential houses and other buildings.