Sinfonietta Rīga conducted by Normunds Shne will perform Repeckaite's Chartres (2012) during Baltic Music Days 2023. THE FIFTH CONCERT OF THE FESTIVAL - “SPARK” “Lithuanian composer Justine Repečkaitė's compositions have been praised as life cycles of sonic figures… Processes are quite plant-like, truly organic: withering, germinating, unfolding, wilting, bursting into bloom, blossoming.”

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In spring 2023 Justina Repečkaitė is an artist-in-residence at Schloss Wiepersdorf, Germany. During her residency Justina works on her piece La Muë (text by Samuel-Auguste Tissot) for children’s choir & electronics, co-commissioned by the Baroque Music Center of Versailles and IRCAM for the Janus project, to be premiered both at IRCAM and at the Royal Chapel of the Palace of Versailles in 2024. Read an article on Janus at Manifeste website.

Recently, at Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, an American pianist Robert Fleitz defended his Master thesis “Microtonality in works for solo piano: Three case studies in the Baltic keyboard repertoire”. Fleitz discusses 3 compositions for piano written by Baltic composers: Santa Ratniece (1977) – In Love with Liberty (2016), Liisa Hirsch (1984) – Quantum Well (2020) and Justina Repečkaitė (1989)- Sturnus vulgaris cohibitus (2020).

Justina Repeckaite’s composition Cries (2023) will be performed during the French tour of the project 50/50 by the Sequenza 9.3 vocal ensemble (cond. Catherine Simonpietri) and a harpist Sandrine Chatron (Trio Polycordes) alongside pieces by Carol Robinson (1956), Claude Barthelemy (1956) and Fabien Cali (1983).

Repeckaite’s piece Acupuncture (2014) was performed again by the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn conducted by Arash Yazdani at the music festival Ars Musica held in Belgium since 1989.

In 2022 Baltic Music Days festival was held in Kaunas, the European capital of culture this year. Ensemble for New Music Tallinn, conducted by Arash Yazdani, gave a concert at Kaunas Philharmonic, streamed on Lithuanian & Estonian national radios. Alongside pieces by Santa BUSS (LV), Märt-Matis LILL (EE), Sami KLEMOLA (FL) & Elis HALLIK (EE) they played Repeckaite’s Acupuncture (2014) for ensemble. This piece was already played by the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn in Baltic Music Days 2021 in Tallinn and later in the festival MusicOlomouc, Czech Republic and MARCO Museum of Contemporary Art, Vigo, Spain.

For the ISCM, – International Society for Contemporary Music Centenary, 100th-anniversary concerts were held in Vilnius. On the 7th of October the string quartet Chordos played Justina’s piece Unbenannt-2 (2016) at Kasiulio Museum. The piece was already performed by Chordos quartet in 2020 during the festival Muzikos Ruduo, Vilnius.

Justina Repeckaite is invited to present her music at Atelier contemporain of Suzanne Giraud at CRR of Paris on the 21st of November 14h30 – 17h30. The presentation, destined for composition class students, is also open to the public and will take place on the eve of the premiere of Justina’s composition Filage by ensemble Court-Circuit, conducted by Jean Deroyer.

Filage received a grant of Aide à l’écriture d’une œuvre musicale originale by the Ministry of Culture of France. Court-Circuit already premiered Justina’s music in 2015: Tapisserie was since played by 13 different ensembles all over the world.

Justina is currently writing a new piece, Filage, for Court-Circuit ensemble: flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello, and double-bass. The commission is a grant from the French Ministry of Culture. Filage will premiere on the 22th of November 2022 at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris alongside music by Philippe Hurel and Adrien Trybucki.

Wie klingt Europa heute? is the name of the concert program in Zürich where Collegium Novum Zürich will perform Repeckaite’s composition Atropine (2022) for brass trio and electronics. Commission of Electrocution festival Atropine premiered earlier this year in Brest, France. Learn more about Atropine and check the streamed performance here.

On the 21th of July der/gelbe.klang ensemble gives carte blanche to the composer and conductor Vykintas Baltakas, who included Justina’s piece Tapisserie (2015) in the concert. Baltakas already conducted Repeckaite’s music in Gaida festival, and then recorded an album Contemporary Music Series: Lithuania (2016) with LENsemble. der/gelbe/klang conducted by Armando Merino already played Pulsus Flatus Vox and the ensemble members Mathias Lachenmayr (percussion) & Marco Riccelli (piano) played Justina’s music during an open studio concert of her residency at Villa Waldberta.

Justina’s composition La Cité des Dames (2019) for 6 sopranos will be performed in a new version for 4 voices by Kollektiv Trigger at 19h on the 1st of May at Hospitalkirsche, Stuttgart.

Pulsating Skin (2021) for 4 snare drums and electronics will be performed again during Mikolaj Rytowski‘s BA recital outside inside at 20h on the 13th of May at Hochschule für Musik in Basel, Switzerland.

The premiere of Pulsating Skin took place during Darmstadt Summer Course in 2021 where Mikolaj had a chance to hear it live.

In April-May the percussion duo Project Ohr (Juliana Santacruz & Romane Bouffioux) are touring in Colombia: Bogota, Suiza, Medellín & Apartado. In their concert program Justina’s piece Transduced (2020) for percussion, 3 transducers & electronics is included.

Justina's composition Garden triptych premiered on the 31st of March 2022 at the Conservatoire of Jean-Jacques Werner in Fresnes, France by the students of Florence Renaud-Goud's harp class. This educational piece was written for 3 concert harps and 3 lever harps. The ages of performers ranged from 12 to 17 years old. Each harp is heavily prepared and each harpist has a personal role.

In spring 2022 Justina Repeckaite was an artist-in-residence Munich at Villa Waldberta. During her stay she started writing a new composition for the ensemble der/gelbe/klang to be performed during the festival Code Modern.