Rusne-Monika Palsauskaite graduated with a Masters in Piano Performance in 2016 from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She was born in Vilnius, Lithuania and started playing the piano at the age of four. In 2010 she graduated from the National M. K. Ciurlionis Art School in the piano class of A. Siksniute. While still studying, she won various national and international piano competitions in Lithuania, France, Ukraine, Italy and Russia. At the RCS she won the 3rd prize in the Bamber/Galloway Piano Competition in both 2014 and 2015, and in 2014 the 1st prize in the Elgar/Spedding Memorial Prize for the best vocal and piano duet.
