Biography

Maya Wichert was born in Munich in 2006, and started receiving violin lessons at the age of four. Since 2015, she has been studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich with Professor Sonja Korkeala and has also been coached by Professor Ana Chumachenco. She receives a scholarship from the International Academy of Music in Liechtenstein and has attended masterclasses with Julia Fischer, Christoph Poppen, Ingolf Turban, Miriam Fried and Pavel Vernikov.

Maya Wichert has repeatedly won ?rst prizes at the “Jugend musiziert” competition, and won the 1st prize at the “Internationaler Florian Meierott Wettbewerb”. In 2015, she received the 1st prize at the “Carl Bechstein Wettbewerb” in Berlin, and in 2016, she was awarded the 1st  prize at the “International Anton Rubinstein Competition” for young violinists in Düsseldorf. At the international “Il Piccolo Violino Magico” competition in Italy in 2016, she won the 1st prize and the audience prize. At the Oberstdorfer Musiksommer 2016, she received the “Dr.  Konstanze Koepff-Röhrs Förderpreis”, as the youngest participant. At the “9th  International Louis Spohr Competition for Young Violinists” in October 2019 in Weimar, she was awarded the 1st prize and also the Neue Liszt Stiftung special prize.

As a soloist, Maya Wichert has already performed with various orchestras in Germany, Italy and Slovenia. In April 2018, she was the youngest performer at the “Internationales Festival junger Meister” concert series with the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim in Ravensburg, Lindau, Memmingen and Augsburg. In 2018 and 2019, she also performed with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Ulm, the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Jena Philharmonic. The Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben award-winner is also active as a chamber musician and has gained orchestral experience in the Puchheim Youth Chamber Orchestra.