Recognized for her "mysterious and captivating charisma" (American Record Guide) and "captivating imagination coupled with freshness" (The Strad), Maya Levy has won numerous prestigious awards – "Caecilia Prize (Musician of the Year) awarded by the Union de la Presse. 1st Prize in the "2020 Francophone Public Media Competition", the 'Silver Medal' at the Manhattan International Music Competition, the "Supernova 2017" award at the Klarafestival – and is the laureate of the Karol Szymanowski Competition in 2018 as well as the "International Karol Lipinski Violin Competition 2019' where she was awarded the Beethoven Prize for the best interpretation of the sonata. In 2021, Maya was invited to perform at the farewell concert of German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels.
She has collaborated with numerous renowned conductors and orchestras, including the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Opera I Filharmonia Podlaska, the Szczecin Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Simfonica Julia Carbonell, the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia, the Torun Symphony Orchestra, the Mitteldeutsche Kammerphilharmonie...
Many were also the venues that welcomed Maya Levy: the Konzerthaus concert hall in Berlin, NOSPR in Poland, the Szczecin Philharmonic, Auditori Municipal Eric Granados in Spain, Flagey Studio 4 in Brussels, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Balthazar Diaz Municipal Theatre in Madeira, Martin Codax Auditorium in Spain, the Royal Theatre de la Monnaie, the Philharmonie de Liege, the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, and the Recanati Hall in Tel Aviv.
Maya is regularly invited to festivals such as Mozartianna in Gdansk (Poland), Piano Salon Christophori (Berlin), Palermo Classica (Italy), Madeira Music Festival (Portugal), Les Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad (Switzerland), Podium Jonge Musici, Jugend Musiziert (Germany), Festival des Lumières de Montmorillon (France), Les Sommets du Classique (Switzerland), the 'La Ballade Musicale in Rixensart' festival, L’été Mosan Festival, the Klarafestival, Jardin Musical, the Musiq’3 Festival (Belgium).
The 2024/25 season will start with a tour in China, and festivals in Croatia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, France, Israel, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, and Italy.
Maya is also an accomplished chamber musician, having formed a duo with pianist Matthieu Idmtal for 7 years, and being part of the Carlo Van Neste Trio from 2014 to 2021. From these two formations, two CDs were released. Acclaimed by critics, the CD; Mendelssohn Piano Trios on Pavane Records was released in 2014.
In 2017, her second CD; Edvard Grieg Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano will be released under the same label, with pianist Matthieu Idmtal.
The CD, highly appreciated by the press, received numerous awards from Classica Magazine, La Libre Belgique, Klara’s top 10, American Records, and was called by The Strad Magazine: "A most intoxicating recording of lesser-known Grieg".
In 2021, her CD "The Lockdown" was released under the label Rubicon Classics Ltd. London. The program of this CD is dedicated to Piazzolla (Tangos for solo violin, world premiere) and Prokofiev's sonatas for two violins and solo violin, with violinist Hrachya Avanesyan.
Maya shares the stage with wonderful artists such as Lucas Debargues, Julien Quentin, Antoine de Grolée, Hrachya Avanesyan, Boris Kuznesov, François René Duchable, Andrey Gugnin, Julien Brocal, etc,...
Born in 1997 to French and Belgian parents, Maya Levy began playing the violin at the age of 4 under the direction of Bernadette Jansen. Later, she continued her studies with Igor Tkatchouk and since 2013 with the eminent Russian pedagogue Boris Kuschnir, in Vienna as well as Hrachya Avanesyan. In the meantime, she has benefited from masterclasses given by renowned professors such as Augustin Dumay, Pavel Vernikov, Itamar Golan, Renaud Capuçon, Miriam Fried, Sergey Khachatryan, Andrey Baranov, and Leonidas Kavakos.
Maya Levy plays on a 1702 Guarneri violin.