Diana was already teaching herself to compose at the age of nine. After training in composition and music theory at the Vilnius Conservatory, she studied composition from 1994 to 2000 at the Lithuanian Academy of Music in Vilnius with Osvaldas Balakauskas. This was followed by studying musicology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Diana Čemerytė completed master classes in composition and Gregorian chant, e.g. with Toshio Hosokawa, Folke Rabe, Brian Ferneyhough, Tadeusz Wielecki, Chaya Czernowin, Helmut Lachenmann, Georg Friedrich Haas, Beat Furrer, Adriana Hölszky and Godehard Joppich. From 1998 to 2001 she worked as an editor and presenter at the Vilnius Classical Music Radio.
Diana Čemerytė received several commissions and grants, e.g. from the Buckow Art and Culture Promotion Association, from the Association for Cultural Festivals in the State of Brandenburg, from the Lithuanian Festival Gaida, from the Kasseler Musiktage, from the Thomas Mann Festival and several grants, e.g. the "Mozart Foundation 1838 in Frankfurt am Main" and the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture.
Diana Čemerytė is a regular guest at contemporary music festivals and concerts in Lithuania and other European countries. Her works have been performed by various orchestras and ensembles, including the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra (LNSO), the Vilnius Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Frankfurt Main Orchestra and the St. Christophorus Chamber Orchestra, as well as by ensembles such as the Tempera Quartet, the Mutare Ensemble, the Auryn Quartet, the Čiurlionis String Quartet, the Trio Interface, the Lugano Percussion Group and the Windspiel Duo. Diana Čemerytė also works closely with soloists such as Sabine Ambos, Mirjana Petercol, Eva Zöllner and Raimondas Sviackevičius. Diana Čemerytė's compositions have been heard at numerous festivals, such as the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt, the Kasseler Musiktage, the International Review of Composers in Belgrade, the Gaida Festival in Vilnius, the eight times old brothers' church festival in Kassel, the Thomas Mann Festival in Nida, the Klangzeit Festival for New Music in Münster, the Baltic Music Days Festival in Tallinn, the Usedom Music Festival and the Festival for New Music in Lüneburg.
She was one of four prizewinners at the composition competition "ad libitum" 2019/2020. In 2020 Diana Cemeryte receives the prize for the best composition in the chamber and instrumental music category 2019 from the Lithuanian Composers' Union. She was chosen for the piece "Mondgesang" for recorder and accordion, played by Sabine Ambos and Mirjana Petercol, which was released on CD as a world premiere recording by GENUIN in November 2019.
As a freelance composer, Diana Čemerytė currently lives near Frankfurt am Main. Your sheet music will be published by Furore Verlag.
