Justyna Rekść-Raubo
A bass multi-instrumentalist (she plays the cello, viola da gamba, and violone) is a 2nd prize and an honourable mention winner in the 2nd Warsaw Cello Competition (1989). She graduated from Andrzej Zieliński’s cello class at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy (now – University) of Music in Warsaw and from Reiner Zipperling’s viola da gamba and violone class at the Academy of Music in Krakow.
As a Stefan Batory Foundation scholarship holder, she took part in orchestral and conducting workshops in Ireland (1997). She honed her skills at numerous courses and master classes led by such eminent artists and teachers as Kazimierz Michalik, Władysław Kłosiewicz, Miloš Sádlo, Marie Leonhardt, Tobias Kühne, Jaap ter Linden, Marc Caudle, Petr Wagner, Bruno Cocset, and Paolo Pandolfo. At present she is a gamba teacher at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.
Since 1995, Justyna Rekść-Raubo has played in Warsaw Chamber Opera’s Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense. She also performs with numerous other ensembles directed by Agata Sapiecha, Aureliusz Goliński, Lilianna Stawarz, Tomasz Adamus, Marek Toporowski, Darius Stabinskas (Brevis Consort, Lithuania) and Petr Wagner (Tourbillon, Czechia). She is the founder of Korona Polish-Lithuanian historical instruments ensemble and Kapela Jazdowska band (Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw). The artist also works in the field of new music. She played in Paweł Mykietyn’s Nonstrom, premiered many works written specially for this ensemble, and was nominated with this group for the Polityka Passport Award.
She is the initiator and co-organiser of a series of 20th-century music concerts “NONSTROM presents” (Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw), as well as such music events as “Aukso Music Gallery”, “Lutosfera”, and “Aukso Summer Philharmonic”.
[2021]