Molėtai, Lithuanian musicologist, theater historian. Dr. (hum. m.; arts studies cand. 1990). In 1975 he graduated from the Lithuanian Conservatory (music history class of J. Čiurlionytė), in 1987 he graduated from the Institute of History of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (theatre history). Interned at the Art Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1988, 2006), the Lithuanian Studies Center in Chicago (2002, 2018). In 1977–79, 1991, 1995, 1998–2000 he taught at the Lithuanian Academy of Music (until 1992 at the Lithuanian Conservatory). 1983–87 Institute of History, 1987–90 Researcher of Meno Studies Department of Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law.
1990–2002 senior researcher at the Institute of Culture and Art, 2002–10 at the Institute of Culture, Philosophy and Art, 2010–12 at the Lithuanian Cultural Research Institute, since 2012 chief researcher; 2008–09 Head of the Department of Musicology, 2009–10 Department of Musicology and Theatrology, 2010–13 Head of the Department of Music and Theater History.
Research areas: History of Lithuanian music and theater (18th-20th centuries), history of cultural life in Vilnius, links between music and theater (history and present). Published about 100 scientific articles, gave presentations at international conferences. Participated in international research projects – Römerians in Lithuania in the 17th–20th centuries, Imperial Vilnius: society and culture (both 2007–08), European Year of Cultural Dialogue (2008), Migration of German musicians in Eastern and Central Europe (2008–09, in the electronic space), European Urban Identity: Intersections of Center and Periphery (2008-10).
Books
Wrote monographs Vilnius city theater: on the path of existential changes. 1785–1915 (2011), Vilnius musician, photographer and poet Faustynas Łopatyńskis (1825–1886): highlights of Lithuanian creative activity (2019). Books from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Compiler of Lithuanian musical life exposure (2014), one of the authors. History of the Lithuanian Theater of Books: 1929–1935 (book 1 2000), History of Lithuanian Music: Years of Independence 1918–1940 (book 2 2009), Struggle for History: Vilnius Antiquities Museum (1855–1915) (2015), Voices of Maironis: Creation, activity, memory (2019) by one author.
