Justė Janulytė (*1982) studied composition at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music in Milan. Her works have been performed by the Lithuanian Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra del Teatro la Fenice Venezia, Orchestre de Flûtes Français, the saxophone quartets Quasar and Xasax and the cellist Anton Lukoszevieze, among others, in Europe, the USA and Canada, and have been presented at different festivals, including the World New Music Days and La Biennale di Venezia. Her music has been performed across Europe, the Americas, Australia and Asia (Japan). In 2019 she won the musica femina münchen competition. In addition, she teaches composition at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre as well as numerous master classes. In 2020, Justė Janulytė made her film music debut in collaboration with the Latvian director Viesturs Kairišs in the feature film City on the River continuing with January which won the Tribeca (NY) film festival as the best international narrative feature. Balancing between the aesthetics of minimalism and sonorism, Justė Janulytė composes sonic metaphors of visual ideas and explores the visual nature of musical phenomena by merging sound and image in her works.