Rasa Vitkauskaite has won top prizes at numerous prestigious international piano competitions including First Prizes at the Rubinstein Piano Competition (Paris), Les Rencontres Internationales des Jeunes Pianistes (Belgium), the competition in Taurisano (Italy), and the Mendelssohn Cup (Italy). In 2007, Rasa won a Kathryn Wasserman Davis grant that supported her tour promoting peace in Israel.
Rasa has performed as soloist with the Kaunas, Latvian, Kaliningrad Philharmonic Orchestras, I Solisti di Perugia and the Boston Conservatory Orchestra. Her most recent concert engagements include performances at festivals in China, South Korea, Venezuela, Mexico, Portugal, Japan and the United States.
Rasa performs regularly with world-renowned clarinetist Jonathan Cohler. The duo recorded two CDs - Rhapsodie Française and Romanza. She is also the pianist of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and the Xonor Trio. Rasa is on a faculty at the Concord Conservatory.
Rasa studied at the National M.K. Čiurlionis School of Arts in Lithuania. She then won a scholarship to study at the United World College of the Adriatic in Italy. Subsequently, she studied at The Boston Conservatory, where she twice won the H. Wilfred Churchill piano scholarship competition, and completed her Bachelors and Masters degrees. Her teachers include Jūratė Karosaitė, Mūza Rubackytė, Alberto Miodini, Michael Lewin and Randall Hodgkinson.
Rasa has performed as soloist with the Kaunas, Latvian, Kaliningrad Philharmonic Orchestras, I Solisti di Perugia and the Boston Conservatory Orchestra. Her
Rasa performs regularly with world-renowned clarinetist Jonathan Cohler. The duo recorded two CDs - Rhapsodie Française and Romanza. She is also the pianist of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and the Xonor Trio. Rasa is on a faculty at the Concord Conservatory.
Rasa studied at the National M.K. Čiurlionis School of Arts in Lithuania. She then won a scholarship to study at the United World College of the Adriatic in Italy. Subsequently, she studied at The Boston Conservatory, where she twice won the H. Wilfred Churchill piano scholarship competition, and completed her Bachelors and Masters degrees. Her teachers include Jūratė Karosaitė, Mūza Rubackytė, Alberto Miodini, Michael Lewin and Randall Hodgkinson.
