Aldona Dvarionaitė was born and raised in the well-known in Kaunas Dvarionai family.  Balys Dvarionas, the father, a pianist and composer, gained his education in Leipzig, Berlin, Salzburg, was at that time a conductor of the Kaunas Symphony Orchestra Radiofonas. The mother was also a pianist of a vivid temperament. Aldona grew in an artistic environment, surrounded by poets, writers and composers from Kaunas, and later form Vilnius. The circle of such guests included some coming from further away: Heinrich and Stanislav Neuhaus, Lazar Berman, Lev Vlasenko, Dmitri Bashkirov, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich… When the little Aldona started playing the piano, her father created a piece on her each birthday (on May 18). This is how “Little Suite” was born. Aldona became a performer of other compositions by Dvarionas, too.