Julija Sadaunykaite is a Lithuanian classical pianist and the Grand Prix winner of the Malta Valletta International Piano Competition. She holds two master’s degrees – from Vytautas Magnus University and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In 2025, she completed her postgraduate studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Music under Professor Marianna Shirinyan.

Julija has performed solo and chamber concerts across Lithuania, Poland, Austria, France, Italy, Switzerland, Malta, Denmark, the USA, the UK, and China. She has taken part in major classical music festivals such as Yamaha Piano Week (China), FairPlay and Aurora (Sweden), Cracow Music Summer (Poland), and the Pažaislis, Kristupas, and Vilnius Chamber Music Festivals (Lithuania). She has attended masterclasses with renowned artists including Donaldas Račys, Stephen Kovacevich, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Lilya Zilberstein, Julian Martin, Jerome Lowenthal, Martin Hughes, Kyoko Hashimoto, and studied chamber music with Yury Lee, Roger Vignoles, and Avedis Kouyoumdjian.

She has collaborated in chamber performances with cellist Hee-Young Lim and violinists Dmytro Udovychenko and Natalia Gordeyeva, as well as in piano duets with Hans Eijsackers, Aleksei Zaitsev, and Donaldas Račys.

In the 2023–2024 concert season, she performed at Tivoli Hall in Copenhagen, Laudon Castle and the Bösendorfer Salon in Vienna, and Smetana Hall in Prague. She also appeared as a soloist with the RDAM Symphony Orchestra and a chamber orchestra in Prague. Additionally, she served on the jury of two international youth piano competitions: Dynasty (Ukraine) and Premio Scarlatti (Vilnius, Lithuania).

Julija Sadaunykaite is represented by BAMA Artist Management and teaches piano at the Vytautas Magnus University Music Academy in Kaunas, Lithuania.