Muza Rubackyte (LT)
From Kaunas
Popularity
Muza Rubackyte has one upcoming show in the Netherlands: on December 19, 2026 at Tindalvilla, Bussum.
About
Mūza Rubackytė is a Lithuanian pianist who made her name with Liszt. She won the Grand Prix at the 1981 Liszt Bartok International Piano Competition in Budapest, and she was among the first to play Liszt's entire Years of Pilgrimage in three concerts on a single day. She has also played the complete cycle at the Bayreuth Festival, plus Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues and Liszt's 12 Transcendental Etudes at the Radio France Montpellier festival. She was a member of the Lithuanian resistance and could only leave the USSR in 1989, after which Paris became a second base. Her discography runs past 30 titles, from Liszt and Shostakovich to Louis Vierne, Julius Reubke's sonatas for piano and organ, and a Shostakovich and Weinberg tribute with the Mettis string quartet. She has performed Penderecki's Resurrection concerto, once with the composer himself conducting, founded the Vilnius Piano Festival, and teaches at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. She is a National Artist of Lithuania.
