Born into a family of musicians; at 14, she won First Prize at the country's National Young Artists Competition, allowing her to enter the renowned Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where she studied with such celebrated pianists/teachers as Bela Davidovitch, Yakov Flier and Michail Voskressensky. During this period, she won First Prize in the Tallinn (Estonia) Piano Competition and shortly thereafter was awarded the Conservatory's First Prize in three disciplines: solo piano, chamber music and accompaniment. She traveled to every corner of the Soviet empire, appearing with the orchestras of the Baltic countries, Ukraine, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Belarus to the great ensembles of Moscow, Vilnius and St. Petersburg. There were also "special" orchestral tours and recitals outside the Soviet Union to Cairo, Egypt, Prague, Czechoslovakia and Budapest, Hungary, where she performed with such maestri as Khatchaturian, Jarvi, Gergiev, Kogan, Kachidze, Jordania and Klas. As a positive side to this "restricted musical life," it allowed her to learn and perform 35 major concerti for piano and orchestra (including those by Beethoven, Mozart, Liszt, Chopin, Stenhammar, Montvila, Dvarionas and Schnittke). After winning the Grand Prix at the Budapest International Piano Competition, also known as the Liszt/Bartok Competition, she was constantly denied visas to perform in the West. Only with the advent of the “perestroika" (1989) and finally, Lithuanian independence (1991), circumstances allowed her to make the move to Paris, France. There, she immediately entered the prestigious Paris International Piano Competition and won its First Prize; as a laureate of that competition, Muza Rubackyte has received the title of “Le Grand Maitre Français” (the Great Master of France). The artist appears regularly in Europe, she is heard frequently on Radio-France, Radio-Classique and Radio Notre-Dame. Proficient in five languages, she is comfortable during her continental tours at such concert venues as the Wigmore Hall (London), the Beethoven House (Bonn), the Salle Gaveau (Paris), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam). In recent years, she has been invited to North America for recitals at the Newport (RI), Portland (OR), Houston (TX) and Bermuda Music Festivals. The Bermuda press headlined her review as "Passion, fire and thunder from a musical magician." In 1998, Lithuania honored Ms. Rubackyte and the late Sir Yehudi Menuhin with the country's highest cultural award the "Legion of Merit" for their extraordinary international musical accomplishments.