the longtime artistic director and cello player of the Kaunas String Quartet - began to lead the new DIUKOS Quartet. 

Saulius Bartulis graduated from the Kaunas Juozas Naujalis Art Secondary school in 1976, and completed his studies in the Lithuanian Music and Art Academy in 1982. He also completed the international “Amadeus Quartet” courses in London in 1992. From 1988 to 2023, he was the artistic director of the Kaunas String Quartet.