Muza Rubackyté - Pianist

from the Years of Pilgrimage cycle to work for piano by Čiurlionis,

MŪZA meets all the challenges with elegance and total commitment.

Mūza Rubackytė, a French-Lithuanian pianist, divides her time between Paris, Vilnius, and Geneva. A graduate of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, she won the All-Union Competition in Saint Petersburg and the Grand Prize at the Liszt–Bartók International Piano Competition in Budapest. As a member of the resistance movement in Lithuania, she was unable to leave the USSR until 1989. She then settled in France, where she obtained the Concert Performer Diploma from the École Normale de Musique de Paris.

After winning First Prize in Piano at the International Competition Les Grands Maîtres Français in 1990, her career led her to perform on all continents, where she has collaborated with leading conductors and renowned orchestras. In 2024, she was Artist-in-Residence at the Gilmore Piano Festival (USA).

A highly respected pedagogue, she is frequently invited to serve on juries of major international competitions in Cleveland, Budapest, Utrecht, Weimar, and Pretoria. In 2022, she chaired the Eurovision Competition for Young Musicians.

In Lithuania, Mūza has received numerous distinctions recognizing her commitment to her country’s independence and cultural influence. Among them, she was recently awarded a Global Lithuanian Award as a pianist, teacher, and ambassador of classical music and Lithuanian culture worldwide. She is the founder and Artistic Director of the Vilnius Piano Festival.

In 2024, Mūza—founder and president of LISZTuania and a passionate interpreter of Franz Liszt—was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit by the President of Hungary.

Mūza Rubackytė’s repertoire encompasses more than forty programs for solo piano, chamber music, and concertos. Her discography includes over thirty-five recordings, honored with numerous prestigious awards such as the Grand Prize of the Hungarian Liszt Society, the Diapason d’Or, Télérama’s 4 ffff, and Classica’s 5 Stars, among others.

In 2021, her autobiographical book Born Under a Piano (Ovadia Editions) was published.

In 2024, MŪZA, a musical documentary film dedicated to her (Fralita Films), shot in Lithuania, Hungary, Russia, the USA, Geneva, and Paris, was screened numerous times in the United States, France, Lithuania, and other countries, in her presence, and met with great success.

In Paris, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs produced a feature with Mūza for its series La France vue par...

Debussy’s birthplace in Saint-Germain-en-Laye selected her as patron of its inaugural season following its historic restoration.

In March 2024, she was the soloist in a major symphonic concert at Les Invalides Cathedral in Paris for the launch of the Season of Lithuania in France, initiated by the Presidents of the French and Lithuanian Republics. With the support of both Cultural Institutes, she gave six recitals across France— from north to south—entitled From the Baltic to the Adriatic, from Vilnius to Venice, and accompanied five screenings of the film, thus fully assuming her role as an ambassador of Lithuanian culture.

In December 2025, after numerous concerts around the world, she returned to French audiences at Salle Gaveau in Paris with an original program. At the same time, her album dedicated to K. Penderecki was released on the Évidence label.

Bio updated in January 2026 by CKSM

LEARN MORE ON: www.muza.fr