Viool, Violin
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Maya Levy was named Artist of the Year 2023 (Caecilia Prize) and has won numerous prestigious awards, including the First Prize from Médias Francophones Publics 2020, a silver medal at the Manhattan International Music Competition, the Supernova Prize at the Klara Festival, and laureate titles at the Karol Szymanowski Competition and the Karol Lipinski International Violin Competition, where she received the Beethoven Prize for the best interpretation of a sonata.
She has collaborated with many renowned conductors and orchestras and is a regular performer at festivals, including the Musiq’3 Festival, where she has appeared alongside artists such as Rolando Villazón, Julien Quentin, Boris Kusnezow, Alexander Mogelevsky, and others.
Maya is also an accomplished chamber musician. She has formed a duo with pianist Matthieu Idmtal for seven years and has been a member of the Trio Carlo Van Neste since 2014. From these two ensembles, two CDs have been released. In 2014, a highly acclaimed recording of Mendelssohn’s complete piano trios was issued. In 2017, her second CD, featuring the complete sonatas for violin and piano by Edvard Grieg with Matthieu Idmtal, was praised by The Strad Magazine as “the most intoxicating recording of a lesser-known Grieg.”
Born in 1997 to French and Belgian parents, Maya Levy began playing the violin at the age of four under the guidance of Bernadette Jansen, Igor Tkatchouk, and Russian pedagogue Boris Kuschnir in Vienna.
Maya Levy performs on a 1702 Guarneri violin (Cremona).
Maya Levy has won numerous prestigious awards, including first prize at the ‘Médias Francophones Publics 2020’ competition, the ‘Silver Medal’ at the Manhattan International Music Competition and the ‘Supernova 2017’ prize at the Klarafestival. She is a laureate of the ‘Karol Szymanowski Competition’ in 2018 and the ‘International Karol Lipinski Violin Competition’ 2019, where she received the Beethoven Prize for the best interpretation of the sonata.
In 2021, Maya was invited to the farewell concert of German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Center for Fine Arts in Brussels.
She has collaborated with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Opera I Filharmonia Podlaska, the Szscecin Philharmonic Symphonic Orchestra, Orquestra Simfonica Julia Carbonell, the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia, the Torun Symphonic Orchestra and the Mitteldeutsche Kammerphilharmonie. Maya Levy has performed at Konzerthaus in Berlin, NOSPR in Poland, the Szscecin Philharmonic, Auditori Municipal Eric Granados in Spain, Flagey Studio 4 in Brussels, the Center for Fine Arts in Brussels, the Bijloke in Ghent, the Munt in Brussels, the Liège Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and the Recanati Hall in Tel Aviv.
Maya took part in many national and international festivals.
As a chamber musician, she has been a duo with pianist Matthieu Idmtal for seven years and has been part of the Trio Carlo Van Neste since 2014.
Two CDs have been released from these two formations. Mendelssohn’s Piano Trios on Pavane Records was released in 2014.
In 2017, her second CD, Edvard Grieg Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano, was released under the same label, with pianist Matthieu Idmtal. In 2021 she released the CD ‘The Lockdown’ under the Rubicon Classics Ltd label. London, featuring Piazzolla’s Tangos for solo violin in world premiere and Prokofiev’s sonatas for two violins and solo violin, with violinist Hrachya Avanesyan.
Born in 1997 to French and Belgian parents, Maya Levy started playing the violin at the age of four under the guidance of Bernadette Jansen. Later she continued her studies with Igor Tkatchouk and from 2013 with the Russian pedagogue Boris Kuschnir in Vienna and with Hrachya Avanesyan. She has since followed master classes with renowned teachers such as Augustin Dumay, Pavel Vernikov, Itamar Golan, Renaud Capuçon, Miriam Fried, Sergey Khachatryan, Andrey Baranov and Leonidas Kavakos.
Maya Levy plays a Guarneri violin from 1702.