Maria Marica

Maria Marica was born in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in a family of musicians and started playing the violin at the age of seven. She studied with Vasile Socea and Nicușor Silaghi in her hometown and she is currently studying with David Grimal at the Hochschule für Musik Saarbrücken, Germany.

Maria is the winner of George Enescu International Violin Competition 2022, and in June of the same year she won the New Hope Grand Prix Competition in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, thus having the chance to perform with 10 orchestras all over Romania in the 2022-2023 season. 

Maria has played recitals and concerts all over Romania, as well as in France, Italy, Germany and the United States. She has had the chance to play chamber music alongside great artists like Frans Helmerson, Marc Coppey, David Grimal, Boris Brovtsyn, Sergey Malov, Victor Julien Laferrière, Solenne Païdassi, Philippe Cassard, among others.

She is a member of Les Dissonances, the only ensemble that plays symphonic repertoire without conductor. She was also a member of the Romanian Youth Orchestra, which has had the chance to perform in venues like Musikverein Vienna, Elbphilharmonie, Philharmonie de Paris, Konzerthaus Berlin.

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Photo: Alex Damian