Bronius Kutavičius

Bronius Kutavičius (born 1932 in Molainiai, Panevėžys district municipality, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian composer. From 1959 to 1964 Kutavičius studied Music Composition at the Lithuanian State Conservatory in lt:Antanas Račiūnas's composition class in Vilnius. He has written numerous oratorios and operas, among them The Last Pagan Rites, Lokys the Bear and The Gates of Jerusalem. He won the Lithuanian State Prize in 1995, and the prize of the Probaltica Festival in Toruń (Poland) in 1996. Most of the works of B. Kutavičius are inspired by ancient Lithuanian polytheistic belief and music.