Mykolas Natalevičius (b. 1985) is a Lithuanian composer whose work spans a wide range of musical fields, from acoustic instrumental writing to experimental electronics. Music was not his first form of creative expression: he began his artistic path as a visual artist, taking part with success in competitions and exhibitions, and in 1998 he received an Acknowledgement from the Mayor of Vilnius "For Artistic Activity." He began his musical studies at the age of sixteen, going on to read composition at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in the classes of Professors Vytautas Barkauskas and Ričardas Kabelis. He also attended courses in voice (with Deividas Staponkus and Algirdas Janutas) and symphonic conducting (with Gintaras Rinkevičius).

In 2010 he studied at the Danish Institute of Electronic Music under Henrik Munch, and in 2013 he undertook a research stay at the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London under Professor Geraint Wiggins, working in the Computational Creativity Lab. In 2015 he was awarded a Doctor of Arts degree by the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, where he is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Composition. He was elected to the Academy's Senate in 2021, and since 2025 he has served as Head of the Department of Composition.

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From 2017 to 2025, Natalevičius led the Lithuanian Composers' Union. On his initiative, the Baltic Contemporary Music Network was founded in 2019, and he has continued to coordinate its activities. Since 2020, the Network has organised the Baltic Music Days festival as well as a number of music export projects. In 2025, it began collaborating with the Council of Nordic Composers, with whom it jointly initiates projects for the international dissemination of contemporary music.

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Natalevičius's output can be divided into two principal directions. The first is experimental, grounded in the combination of extreme musical idioms such as drone and noise; the second is minimalist and consonant, drawing on the aesthetics of ambient and soundscape. The experimental strand finds its most frequent expression in orchestral, chamber and electronic music, and is typically tied to liminal experience and to industrial and catastrophist themes (Trauma, Gas Flare, Karachay); his orchestral and chamber works in this vein also draw on the techniques of spectral music. The second tendency emerges most often in choral, piano and organ writing, as well as in music for film and theatre, and is characterised by consonant sonorities and a flowing atmosphere (dew.mist, Dreamy, Dulce Lumen).

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His music is performed in Lithuania and abroad at contemporary art events and festivals. Among the internationally and nationally renowned ensembles that have performed his works are L'Itinéraire (France), LOOS Ensemble (Netherlands), Quasar (Canada), Altera Veritas (Latvia), the Latvian State Academic Choir "Latvija," the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, the St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra, the choirs "Jauna Muzika" and "Vilnius," the DIISSC Orchestra, Synaesthesis, Twenty Fingers Duo and Trio Agora, alongside soloists such as tenor Algirdas Janutas and organist Jūratė Landsbergytė.

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Natalevičius's work has been recognised with numerous international and national awards. In 2008, together with his colleagues from the New Opera Action creative group, he received the prize for best stage work at the Lithuanian Composers' Union's annual Best Works competition. Synchronisation (2009), a collaboration with video artist Rimas Sakalauskas, went on to win seven international awards and was screened at forty festivals and exhibitions in various countries. In 2012 he received the Young Artist Prize of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.

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His orchestral and choral music has likewise been honoured. In 2011, Kampana for symphony orchestra received the debut prize at the Lithuanian Composers' Union's Best Works competition. In 2014, O Crux Ave took first prize and the audience choice award at the "Vox Juventutis" choral music competition. In 2016, Karachay was distinguished at the same Best Works competition with the award "For the Picturesqueness of the Orchestral Writing."

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