Justina Repečkaitė (*1989) studied after completing her composition Master’s degree in France at the prestigious Cursus IRCAM in Paris. Her Cursus piece Transduced (2020) was presented at the big hall of the Centre Pompidou. In Paris Justina was an artist in residence at the Singer-Polignac Foundation, composer in residence with the ensemble Le Balcon and held a scholarship at the International Centre of Nadia and Lili Boulanger. Her compositions Chartres (2012) and Tapisserie (2015) represented Lithuania in ISCM World Music Days and International Rostrum of Composers. Since 2015 she is a member of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union which awarded her the debut of the year prize.
Justina’s music is performed by Ensemble InterContemporain, Court-Circuit, 2e2m, Spectra, Asko/Schönberg, OSSIA, Platypus, The Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, The Lithuanian Ensemble Network, Ithaca College Contemporary Music Ensemble, SurPlus, and recently by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. She is regularly commissioned by Gaida, the biggest contemporary music festival in Baltics, for which she wrote several orchestra pieces. In 2021 she writes for the Darmstadt Summer Course project Music in the City.