Jurate Landsbergyte (b. 1955) graduated from the Lithuanian Conservatoire (presently Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre) in 1980, where she studied music history with Prof. Jadvyga Ciurlionyte and organ with Prof. Leopoldas Digrys. She was awarded a diploma at the International Organ Competition in Kiev in 1989. Landsbergyte took part in the master classes led by such distinguished organists of Europe as Johannes Ernst Kohler (Weimar), Ewald Kooiman (Berlin), Guy Bovet, Almut Rossler, Nicholas Danby (Millstatt, Austria).
She appeared in festivals in Lithuania (Pazaislis, Sv.Kristupas, Thomas Mann, Gaida, Druskininkų Vasara su M.K.Ciurlioniu, etc.) and abroad: in Yerevan (1991), Berlin (1991), Gdansk (1993), Luxembourg (1995), Europa Cantans, Peace Project Europa+Balticum in Westphalia (1998, Germany), Usedom (2000, Germany), Riga (2000), Schwabmunchen (2001), Romantik der Oder Frankfurt/Oder (2002), H. Hesse, Calw (2002). She toured in Europe, the USA and Canada. In 1995-1996 she served as an organist at the St.Stephan Evangelical Church in Berlin. At present she works as an organist in various churches in Lithuania and Germany. She has premiered and recorded a number of works for organ by Lithuanian and foreign composers.
Landsbergyte has made transcriptions of various works for organ, edited a publication of Ciurlionis’ works for organ and the first publication of Vytautas Bacevicius‘ complete works for organ (the Lithuanian Music Information and Publication Centre, 2004). She has participated in various international musicological conferences and has written articles on contemporary Lithuanian music, as well as on organ and religious music of Lithuania. She works as a musicologist at the Institute of Culture, Philosophy and Art in Vilnius; she is a member of the Lithuanian Composers Union.
Landsbergyte has recorded eight CDs, including Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, Bronius Kutavicius, Vilnius Cathedral, 2000 (Tembras); Konzert in Berliner Dom, 2000; Flute and Organ in Vilnius Cathedral, 2001; Romantismus Plus, Kirche Heiliger Kreuz, Frankfurt / Oder, 2003; Baltic Landscapes, Karlsruhe Stadtkirche, 2005 (the last three, with the flutist Carsten Hustedt, released by the Vilnius Recording Studio).