After graduating from the Lithuanian Academy of Music (then the State Conservatoire) with Prof. J. Ginzburgas in piano and Prof. J. Juzeliūnas in composition, L. Povilaitis worked for a while as a teacher at the Panevėžys School of Music, then as a lecturer and concertmaster at the Vilnius Pedagogical Institute and the Vilnius Conservatoire, and as the head of the musical section at the Academic Drama Theatre. He also worked at the "Ąžuoliukas" school in Vilnius. While working there, L. Povilaitis conceived the idea of the Lithuanian Piano Music Festival-Competition and has been organising it since 1998. Being an active creator of piano music, especially for children, Pov Povilaitis himself encourages his colleagues to enlarge the repertoire of this genre and to accustom children to national music. Incidentally, Povilaitis was one of the first Lithuanian composers to use the dodecaphonic technique in a piano concerto (1964). In addition to various piano suites, play cycles, variations, etc. Povilaitis composed about 500 songs, music for drama performances, films, and, of course, for Lithuanian folk orchestras. This area of his work is very distinctive and has been awarded various prizes. For example, the works "Sutartinė" and "To-drylio" for Lithuanian folk instrument orchestras, as well as the plays "Dovanėlė" (The Gift) and "Tūto" (The Throne) for a kanklės ensemble have been awarded the republican Jonas Shvedas and Stasys Šimkus prizes, and the oratorio "Lietuva, žaliasai medi!" won the Second Prize of the World Lithuanian Large Form Vocal Works and Songs Competition in Melbourne (1989), and the song "Vilniaus varpai" won the Third Prize of the Lithuanian Armed Forces Song Competition (1998).
