Altoist Augusta Romaškevičiūtė is a passionate performer of orchestral and chamber music, who has appeared in many concert halls and festivals in Europe, the United States and Brazil.
Attiškaitė is a member of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra and a prize-winner of the F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Competition in Berlin. She has been awarded art scholarships by the Hindemith Society, Oscar and Vera Ritter, Hertie, DOMS, the Hindemith Berlin Foundation, and the Lithuanian Cultural Council.
Augusta was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, and picked up the viola for the first time when she was a graduate of the violin class of the M.K. Čiurlionis National School of Arts.
Later she continued her studies in Germany with some of the most famous viola players of the time: Hartmut Rohde at the University of the Arts in Berlin, Tatiana Masurenko at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Leipzig. He completed his post-graduate studies in the class of Wolfram Christ, former viola concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, at the Freiburg Academy of Music. Augusta's musical sensitivity and performance style were inspired by her work with violists Kim Kashkashian, Jean Sulem, Thomas Riebl, Danusha Waskiewicz and members of the Artemis, Vogler and Alban Berg quartets.
From the beginning of her studies, she was fascinated by the symphony orchestra repertoire and was a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester Youth Orchestra. She has performed in major orchestras such as the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Staatsoper Hamburg, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Radio Cologne, Radio Leipzig and Gulbenkian Lisbon.
The musician regularly performs in various chamber music ensembles and has been featured at the AIMS Festival in Spain, the Aurora Festival of Music in Sweden, the Lucerne Music Festival Academy in Switzerland, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Palais Wittgenstein Concert Series in Düsseldorf, and at the Bach Society Houston in the USA.
At the same time, the artist is successfully implementing her own curated projects: recently she presented to the Lithuanian audience the programme of viola and piano music "Viola - an instrument with a human voice", and together with a string quartet - "From Kaunas to Odessa". She is the founder of the project "Music for All", under the auspices of the Vilnius Rotary Club.
She plays the viola of Michael Ledfuss (2010, Halle).
