Maia Cabeza

Twenty-one-year old violinist Maia Cabeza recently came to international attention as 1st prize (Mozart prize) winner of the 2013 Leopold Mozart International Violin Competition Augsburg, where she also received other special prizes including the prize for best performance of a contemporary piece.

Since her debut as a soloist at age 10, she has gone on to perform with several orchestras in North America, South America and Europe. Recent performances include solos with the Munich Radio Orchestra, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Philadelphia Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony, Reno Philharmonic, and the Detroit Symphony. In addition, Ms. Cabeza has performed with Orquesta Academica del Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Danville Symphony, Chapel Hill Philharmonia, and Sphinx Chamber Orchestra in gala concerts at Carnegie Hall.

A dedicated and passionate chamber musician, Ms. Cabeza performs frequently with various ensembles and pianists in recital. She has been invited to several prestigious music festivals, including the Marlboro Music Festival, Ravinia's Steans Institute and Verbier Festival Academy. In the summers of 2011 and 2012 she was a featured young artist at Music from Angel Fire, and she has also attended Schlewsig-Holstein, Yellowbarn, Aspen and Prussia Cove International Music Seminar and Open Chamber Music in Cornwall, England. She has had the opportunity to collaborate with distinguished artists such as Nobuko Imai, Ida Kavafian, Dénes Várjon and several members of the Cleveland, Guarneri, Juilliard, Orion and Vermeer String Quartets.

In 2004, she was loaned an 1892 Gragnani violin by the Stradivari Society of Chicago, and in 2005, she was awarded a $25,000 fellowship from the Davidson Institute for Talent Development towards advancing musical studies. A finalist in the 2009 Philadelphia Orchestra Competition and a semi-finalist in the Michael Hill and Buenos Aires International Violin Competitions, Ms. Cabeza was the 2nd place laureate of the Sphinx Competition and winner of the North Carolina Symphony Competition.

Born in Japan in 1992 of Argentinian heritage, she commenced violin studies in Canada at the age of 4. Accepted at age 13 to the Curtis Institute of Music, she recently received her Bachelor of Music where she studied with Ida Kavafian and Joseph Silverstein. During the 2011-2012 season, Ms. Cabeza served as concertmaster of the Curtis Symphony, Chamber and Opera Orchestras. Currently, she is furthering her studies in Berlin at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in an addition to being a member of the Berlin Philharmonic "Karajan" Orchestra Academy.

01/2014