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Mykolas Natalevičius is a young Lithuanian composer active in various fields of music, from the acoustic instrumental music to the experimental electronics. His work involves composing, playing piano, singing and conducting. According to composer, music was not his initial field of creativity. He began his creative path in the fine arts, successfully participating in various art exhibitions and competitions, and started his music studies at the age of sixteen. He studied composition (with Prof. Vytautas Barkauskas and Ričardas Kabelis) at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, graduating in 2011. In 2010 Mykolas Natalevičius studied at the Danish Institute of Electronic Music with Henrik Munch, also attended singing class at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus with Ingrid Haking Raby. As a composer he attended masterclasses of Ivar Frounberg, Andrew McKenzie and others.
In 2015 he defended his doctoral thesis about composing drone music and works now as a lecturer at Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and Kaunas University of Technology.
From 2017 he is chairman of Lithuanian Composers' Union and from 2019 he leads Baltic Contemporary Music Network, which seeks to formalise and boost cooperation between central institutions and actors in the field of contemporary art music of the Baltic States and develop a strong international cooperation and events on diverse levels and contexts.
