Andrius Vasiliauskas was born in 1954 to a renown family of Vilnius musicians. In 1973, he graduated from M. K. Čiurlionis Art School with a diploma in grand piano, and was accepted for studies at the Lithuanian Academy of Music. There, he studied under Aleksandra Juozapėnaitė, Professor Olga Šteinbergaitė, and Audronė Vainiūnaitė. Andrius began holding his first concerts, while studying at the Academy. He successfully participated in the 3rd M. K. Čiurlionis Piano Competition, and in 1987, he was named the 1st prize laureate at the H. Eller Competition in Tallinn. Once Andrius completed his studies with Professor O. Šteinbergaitė from 1986 to 1988, he began teaching piano at the Lithuanian Academy of Music (currently not operating).
The pianist has given greatest attention to solo concerts in his creative work. The performances have been of the more rare cycles for the grand piano – M. Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit (Gaspard in the Night), R. Schumann’s pieces entitled Margi Lapai (Colours of Leaves), F. Liszt’s concert etudes, F. Chopin’s ballades, O. Messiaen’s preludes, J. Reubke’s sonata b-moll for the grand piano (dedicated to F. Liszt), and M. Reger’s sonatina, as well as monographic concerts for B. Britten, R. Strauss, J. Brahms, and others.
Lithuanian composers of both grand piano and chamber music pieces can often be heard in the programmes of Andrius Vasiliauskas – Feliksas Bajoras, Osvaldas Balakauskas, Bronius Kutavičius, Algimantas Bražinskas (this composer’s Sonata No. 3 was first performed by A. Vasiliauskas in the spring of 2000), Stasys Vainiūnas, Juozas Gruodis, Vytautas Montvila, Justinas Bašinskas, Julius Gaidelis, Teisutis Makačinas, and others.
The pianist has also appeared in chamber music programmes with: violinists Audronė Vainiūnaitė, Gintvilė Vitėnaitė, Rusnė Mataitytė, Lolita Kišonaitė, Jonas Tankevičius, Rimvydas Kavaliauskas, and others; singers Sigutė Trimakaitė, Judita Leitaitė, Regina Maciūtė, Romualdas Vešiota, Danielius Sadauskas, Aldona Stempužienė – Švedienė (United States), and Maacha Deubner (Germany); flutists Laima Šulskutė, Valentinas Gelgotas, and Andrius Radziukynas; viola players Rolandas Romoslauskas, and Evaldas Vyčinas; violoncello players Augustinas and Virgilijus Vasiliauskas, and Albertas Šivickis; and pianists Birutė Vainiūnaitė, Gabrielė Kondrotaitė, Raminta Lampsatytė, the Vilnius Quartet, and others.
Overall, 34 hours of musical recordings (200 records) by Andrius Vasiliauskas have been accumulated in the archives of Lithuanian Radio. The pianist has appeared in numerous concerts in Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Russia, Germany (Uckermärkische Musikwochen, 1996, 1998), Denmark, and Italy (Trieste Contemporanea, 1997). Andrius Vasiliauskas arranges a traditional annual piano performance on Palm Sunday in Panevėžys City (11 programmes have been held). He has been repeatedly invited to perform in Peine – Vöhrum, Germany (6 programmes have been held).
Lately, A. Vasiliauskas has performed particularly intensively in Lithuania. He held 22 solo concerts, organized by the National Philharmonic, in various towns of Lithuania during February, March, and April of 2001.
During autumn of 2001, he performed three cycles of concerts at Vartai Gallery in Vilnius in which rare pieces of F. Chopin, a classical German composer, could be heard. He also performed a cycle of new musical pieces by Lithuanian composer A. Bražinskas, written in 2001 - Šventos Mūsų Dienos (Blessed Are Our Days) [see Latest Programmes in the listing of creative works].
In 2002 A. Vasiliauskas recorded a CD with F. Chopin’s pieces in Vilnius Recording Studio. During the festival devoted to Lithuanian poet V. Mačernis that took place in spring of 2004, Andrius was not only one of the main organizers of the event but also a performer. At the final concert he performed F. Schubert’s “Wanderer – Fantasie” and other musical pieces
In 2005-2007 A. Vasiliauskas visited many schools all over Lithuania giving piano concerts and lectures.  In June of 2006 he performed at the Embassy of Lithuanian Republic in Berlin and in 2007 together with a singer J. Leitaitė they gave a concert at the Embassy of Lithuanian Republic in Georgia.
International festivals:
Uckermarkische Musikwochen’ 96 - compositions by R. Wagner and M. K. Čiurlionis for the  piano, works by F. Schubert, and the Charles Ives Trio with A. Vainiūnaitė on the violin, and A. Vasiliauskas on the violoncello.
Trieste Contemporanea’ 97 - music of J. Gaidelis, V. Bacevičius, B. Kutavičius, F. Bajoras, and O. Balakauskas for the piano.
Uckermarkische Musikwochen’ 98 - compositions by V. Bacevičius, A. Bražinskas, F. Bajoras, M. Ravel, and O. Messiaen for the piano.   

In 2007, in addition to concerts for schoolchildren at Lithuanian schools and the traditional concert called “Music of the Palm Sunday” in Panevėžys, Andrius Vasiliauskas prepared two solo programmes with the actors Valentinas Masalskis and J. Čepauskaitė; a joint project with the singer Judita Leitaitė, shown at the Lithuanian Embassy in Georgia at an event to mark the anniversary of Lithuania’s accession to the European Union; and a programme of Schumann’s music, performed in Lithuanian seaside towns in August and in the opening concert of the 2007 Schumann Festival at the Schumann Museum in Leipzig on 8 September. Equally successful was his recital of contemporary piano compositions at the Iš Arti (From Close Quarters) festival in Kaunas, in November 2007.

In 2008, the pianist toured in Finland with the singer Judita Leitaitė; gave a recital of rarely heard piano music by Robert Schumann, Alexander Scriabin and Vidmantas Bartulis at the National Philharmonic Hall; with the flutist Algirdas Vizgirda, the oboist Robertas Beinaris and the Musica Humana ensemble performed Bach’s Concerto for harpsichord, flute and oboe in F major at a concert to mark the 90th anniversary of Lithuania’s independence; and later, joined by the singers Liora Grodnikaitė and Judita Leitaitė, appeared in a concert, organised by the Lithuanian Embassy to mark the same anniversary, at the Tel Aviv Culture Centre in Israel. In 2008, on the initiative of the Prūsa Club of Historians, he prepared a programme of piano compositions by the 19th-century composer and painter Napoleon Orda (1807–1883), who is still unfamiliar to Lithuanian audiences.

E-mail: a.vasiliauskas@post.skynet.lt