Mantas Leonardo Lizzi was born in 2005. Milan (Italy). When the family moved to Lithuania, he entered the Stasys Vainiūnas Art School in Palanga at the age of 5, and a year later took up the accordion for the first time while studying in the class of teacher expert Nijolė Daukšienė. Already in the second year of school, he replaced the keyboard accordion with a button accordion. Eleven-year-old Mantas conducted the accordion orchestra for the first time.
Mantas has successfully participated in 87 national and international competitions in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy, Austria, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania and has won only the highest awards. His gallery of achievements is adorned with over 60 Grand Prix and first place nominations.
2017 Mantas won the Lithuanian Maximist Scholarship for merit in music. In the same year he gave a concert in the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania.
Mantas – M. Rostropovich Charity and Support Foundation “Help for Lithuanian Children” 2017 – 2022. ward, so he often appears in concerts of young talents under the auspices of this foundation.
Mantas loves challenges – he has accompanied the Klaipėda City Choir and soloists, has played with the famous Vilnius String Quartet, Klaipėda Brass Quintet, Vilnius Teachers’ House Accordion Orchestra Consona, St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra. The performer often plays in ensembles of various compositions, annually participates in international festivals, concerts and master classes with the most famous national and foreign teachers.
Mantas is currently continuing his studies at the Kaunas Juozas Gruodis Conservatory in the class of accordion teacher and performer Laimonas Salijus.
