ENThe goal of the research is to reveal the significance of music teacher's competences in Lithuania and China. The method applied in the research: the analysis of scientific literature and educational documents. The research reveals that the concepts of music teacher's competences embrace knowledge, abilities, expression of attitudes based on subject-specific, pedagogical, managerial, and personal abilities. Moreover, competences of a music teacher can be successfully implemented only when linked with the teacher as a person and selfeducation of his/her personality. Such personal contact is the basis of all the competences of a music teacher. Keywords: education of future music teachers, music teacher, teacher competences. [From the publication]