Gryta Tatoryte, born in Panevėžys (Lithuania) in 1989, is a Lithuanian pianist and music teacher. She began her musical training at the Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis National Art School in Vilnius, where she graduated with a major in piano under Justas Dvarionas. She then studied at the Karlsruhe University of Music, where she completed both her concert exam in piano and a master's degree in music education with a focus on music mediation and concert pedagogy. Her influential teachers included Michael Uhde, Peter Eicher, Markus Stange, Anna Zassimova and Mirjam Boggasch.
Her artistic career has been supported by numerous scholarships, including from the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture, the Rostropovich Charity and Support Foundation (Lithuania), the SOS Talents Foundation (Switzerland), the Richard Wagner Scholarship Foundation Bayreuth, the ZONTA Club Karlsruhe and the NEUSTART KULTUR support programme. Gryta Tatoryte has won prizes at 17 national and international competitions. Concert appearances have taken her to major festivals such as the Schwetzingen Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Bad Urach Autumn Music Days, the Vilnius Festival and the International Thomas Mann Festival in Nida.
In addition to her solo and chamber music activities, Gryta Tatoryte is also intensively involved in teaching. She has been an academic assistant at the University of Music in Freiburg since 2024. Prior to that, she was a substitute professor for piano and piano chamber music at the University of Music in Karlsruhe from 2023 to 2024. From 2020 to 2024, she also taught piano at the music school in Ettlingen. She has been a lecturer at the Karlsruhe University of Music since 2013.
In addition to her regular teaching activities, Gryta Tatoryte is involved in the Alumni CampusOne e. V. at the Karlsruhe University of Music. There, she actively helps to shape the musical and professional network by organising and supervising concerts, master classes and discussion groups as part of the Career Centre's programme.