Born on 13 June 1933 in Greiciiai, Jurbarkas district.
Died on 04 02 2011 in Kaunas. Buried in Petrašiūnai Cemetery.
He attended Raseiniai Gymnasium, 1949-1956 - Siberian exile. Lived in Biriusinsk (Taishet district, Irkutsk region). He worked as a manual labourer and led a Lithuanian choir. After returning to Lithuania, in 1956-1960 he studied choir conducting at the Kaunas Juozas Gruodis School of Music (teacher: Danguolė Vaitkutė). After graduating with honours, he continued his part-time studies in choral conducting at the Lithuanian State Conservatoire in 1960-1964 (class of Prof. Konradas Kavecko). During his studies he taught and directed choirs at the 7th and 15th secondary schools in Vilnius. In 1965-1967 he taught choral conducting and harmony at the M. Tulebayev School of Music in Semipalatinsk (Kazakhstan), directed the city's Kazakh Academic Choir, as well as the German Choir and the children's choir of the 11th secondary school. Since 1968 he has been a lecturer in conducting and theoretical disciplines of the choir of Kaunas Juozas Naujalis Secondary School of Art (Music Gymnasium), and since 1986 he has been the director of the children's choir, and he has performed in Belarus and Poland. In 1969-1977 he was also a teacher at Kaunas J. Gruodis Higher School of Music. In 1989 he defended his candidate's dissertation. 1992-1993 - Head of the Department of Aesthetic Education at the Lithuanian Institute of Teacher Qualification, since 1995 - Senior Assistant at the Department of Music Pedagogy at the Kaunas Faculty of the Lithuanian Academy of Music. Doctor of Pedagogy (1990). In addition to his pedagogical activities, he has also directed amateur choirs. In 1968-1970 he was the artistic director of the mixed choir of the Kaunas "Drobė" factory, in 1970-1984 he was the artistic director and conductor of the mixed choir of the Kaunas sewing factory "Mada" (1979). With the choir he performed in Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania. Conducted at song festivals in Šakiai, Jonava and Kaunas. He wrote musical articles and prepared teaching aids for music schools: "Harmony Conspectus" (1973), "Harmony Programmed Survey Cards" (1975), "Harmony Tasks" (together with Vaclovas Paketuras, 1978, 1984). He has composed songs and compiled the collection "Songs for Children's Choir" (1993).