(B. 27.04.1961)

Sodeika graduated from the Lithuanian Music Academy in 1986 (Professor Julius Yuzelyunas’s composition class). At the beginning of his career, Sodeika’s work was informed with unconventionality - happenings, site-specific works, sound installations, compositions of instrumental theatre.

Gintaras Sodeika is author of symphony and chamber music, but he is best known for his music for theatre productions. The concert trend of his music is also noted for certain theatricality and references to contemporary popular culture. The composer himself describes his works of recent years as 'academic techno' - a whimsical combination of traditional musical values with new technologies. Sodeika’s works often combine elements of minimalism and jazz, and are not void of bizarre humor and self-irony. In 1998, he was awarded the Christopher Prize as the best theatre composer in Lithuania (performance “Roberto Zucco”) and in 2006, the Gold Stage Cross (Prize for the best music for a drama performance in the season of 2005/2006 for the performance “Playing the Victim”). He was also awarded with the Prize of the International Contact Theater Festival for his music for “Playing the Victim” (Torun, Poland).

In 1999-2003, Sodeika served as Chairman of the Lithuanian Composer‘s Union, and in 2000-2006, he was President of the Lithuanian Copyright Association; in 2003-2005 and 2006-2008, he was the Lithuanian Vice-Minister for Culture. He has been working with Oskaras Korshunovas since 1990.

The list of theater works of Gintaras Sodeika include:

1. 1990, “There Be Here” by D. Kharms, 2001 (director Oskaras Korshunovas, Lithuanian Academic Drama Theater, Vilnius); 2. 1992, “The Old Woman” by D. Kharms, 2001 (director Oskaras Korshunovas, Lithuanian Academic Drama Theater, Vilnius); 3. 1994, “Hello Sonya New Year” by Alexander Vvedensky (director Oskaras Korshunovas, Lithuanian Academic Drama Theater, Vilnius); 4. 1994, “The Old Woman - 2” by D. Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky; 5. 1997, “P.S. File O.K.” by S.Parulskis (director O. Korsunovas, Lithuanian Drama Theatre); 6. 1998, “Roberto Zucco” by B.-M. Koltés (director Oskaras Korshunovas, Lithuanian Academic Drama Theater, Vilnius); 7. 1999, “Shopping and fucking” by Mark Ravenhill (director Oskaras Korshunovas, O.K. Theatre, Vilnius); 8. 2000, “Fireface” by M. von Mayenburg (director Oskaras Korshunovas, O.K. Theatre, Vilnius, and the Frankfurt-on-Oder Theater); 9. 2000, “Solitude for Two” by Stefanovsky (director Oskaras Korshunovas, Avignon Theater Festival, OKT, Hotel Europa Project, Stockholm, Bologna, Vilnius); 10. 2000, “The Master and Margarita” by M.Bulgakov (director Oskaras Korshunovas, Avignon Theater Festival); 11. 2000, “Elizabeth Bam” by D. Kharms (director Oskaras Korshunovas, Studio Theater, Warsaw); 12. 2001, “We Are Not Pies” by D. Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky (director Oskaras Korshunovas, Torshov Theater, Oslo); 13. 2001, “Parazites” by M. von Mayenburg (director Oskaras Korshunovas, O.K. Theatre, Vilnius); 14. 2002, “The Kid” by M. Ivashkevichus (director Marius Ivashkevichus, O.K. Theatre, Vilnius); 15. 2002, “Barbora Radvilaite’s Will” by S. Parulskis (director A. Latenas, Youth Theater, Vilnius); “Oedipus Rex” by Sophocles (director Oskaras Korshunovas, O.K. Theatre, Duisburg, Salzburg, Zurich, Vilnius); 17. 2003, “The Winter” by J. Fosse (director Oskaras Korshunovas, Torshov Theater, Oslo); 18. 2003, “Cleansed” by Sarah Kane (director Oskaras Korshunovas, Swedish Royal Theater, Stockholm); 19. 2005, “Playing the victim” by Presnyakov Brothers (director Oskaras Korshunovas, O.K. Theatre, Vilnius); 20. 2006, «“The Winter” by J. Fosse, one-act opera (director Oskaras Korshunovas, O.K. Theatre + the Vilnius Orchestra); 21. 2007, “The Taming of the Shrew” by W. Shakespeare (director Oskaras Korshunovas, Comédie Français, Paris); 22. 2008, “Those Eyes” by J. Fosse (director Oskaras Korshunovas, Drama Theater, Stavanger); 23. 2009, “The Lower Depths” by M. Gorky (director Oskaras Korshunovas, National Theater, Oslo); 24. 2010, «“The Taming of the Shrew” by W. Shakespeare (director Oskaras Korshunovas, Alexandrinsky Theater).