born in 1976, he studied composition with Osvaldas Balakauskas at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, graduating in 2000. In 1996 he received the Tyla award for the year’s best composition by a young Lithuanian composer. In 1997–99 he was the main organiser of the Young Composer’ Chamber Music Days in Druskininkai. At the ArtGenda Baltic Biennale in Stockholm in 1998, he presented a multimedia work, Spectrum RTM. That same year, he participated in the Summer Courses of New Music in Darmstadt. He also participated in the International Summer academy Prague–Vienna–Budapest (1999) and the 1st Young Artists Biennale in Turin (2000). His awards including the Young Composer Award (2001), Best Electroacoustic Work (2001 and 2005), Best Stage Work (for Time Line, 2006), all from the Lithuanian Composers’ Union. In 2006, his Terra tecta for cello and electronics was commended in the young composers category at the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris.
In 2002, he was composer-in-residence at the Visby International Centre for Composers and worked at the Alpha Studio in Sweden, and in 2003, Swedish record label published a CD featuring his electronic composition Sound Masks. Also in 2003, he participated in the MaerzMusik festival in Berlin, followed by Turning Sounds 2 and Warsaw Autumn in Warsaw as well as Klangspuren in Tirol in 2004. In the years 2004–9 he was director of the Jauna Muzika festival, and has been a member of the DIISSC Orchestra collective since 2008.
The music of Vytautas Jurgutis is a mixture of style that he himself defines as an “integration of phenomena both archaic and new.” In order to communicate with the audience, he integrates elements of pop music, especially dance (G.A.L. House), and multimedia. He also has a keen interest in advanced music software techniques, and has composed several sophisticated electronic compositions that are among Lithuania’s finest.

Major works: Papyrus from the Book of Dead for soprano, flute and two prepared pianos (1995), Sticky Rhodes for computer (1997), Present and Absent Messiah’s Face for choir (1997), Expansia for computer (1997), The Future Sacros for choir, ensemble and tape (1998), Semjase for string orchestra (1998), Spectrum RTM for computer and video (1998), Zoom for harpsichord and string quintet (1999), Ci for orchestra (2000), Sound Masks for computer (2001), Telogenos for ensemble (2002), Telomeros for computer and video (2002), Elipses for string quartet (2003), Terra tecta for cello and tape (2004), Time Line for computer and video (2006), Zoo-Zoom for computer, video and live animals (2007), Cn Gx iW eQ for computer (2009), Vilnius Metro for computer (2010), Metroscan for computer and video (2011), Hifi for computer (2011).