Sound · Conductor
Born Oct 11, 1928 · Šiauliai, Lithuania
Active 1969–2016 · Awards: USSR State Prize, Order of Honour, People's Artist of the USSR, Lithuanian National Prize, Grand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, January 13th commemorative medal, Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana
Sondeckis was born in Šiauliai in 1928. He graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (Vilnius Conservatory) as a violinist with Alexander Livontas in 1952 and studied conducting with Igor Markevich.