Born in Haifa in 1954, Moshe Rasiuk is a graduate of the Rubin Academy of Music and the Musicology Department of Tel Aviv University. He studied with Prof. Abel Ehrlich and also with Prof. Josef Tal in Jerusalem. In 1982, his composition Kadim (East Wind) won first prize in a competition for young composers organized by the Israel Sinfonietta Be’er Sheba. It was subsequently played by the major Israeli orchestras, including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, which also played it on their tour of Australia in 1989. In 1998, Kadim was played in Finland for the 50th Jubilee of Israel. 

Among Rasiuk's other works, Edom Mountains for string orchestra was performed by the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony. His vocal works include The Market Street, Sodom Square, which won the Yoel Engel Prize for original Israeli music (1991) and was recorded for Israeli television, and others. Avoda Zara won the 1991 AKUM Prize and was premiered by the Haifa Symphony in 1993. It was also performed in Osaka, Japan, in 1995 by the Century Orchestra under the baton of Uri Segal. Rasiuk was the Laureate of the Prime Minister Prize for Composition in 1995.