Dr. (hum. year, 2007). He graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music with a master's degree (2000 J. Karnavičiaus piano class, 2003 G. Daunoravičienės music theory class). Since 2004 he has been teaching at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, 2008–15 research worker at the Science Center; professor (2019). In 2004 he interned at the Institute of Musicology of the University of Leipzig, in 2012 at the Institute for Research and Coordination of Music Acoustics in Paris, in 2019 at the summer courses of the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester in Paris.