Canadian-American violinist Maia Cabeza enjoys a multifaceted performing career as a chamber musician, soloist and orchestral leader. Since 2024, she has been first violin of the London-based, internationally renowned Doric String Quartet, with whom she regularly tours the UK, Europe, North America, Australia and Asia. The quartet has an extensive discography, records exclusively with Chandos Records, and teaches at the Royal Academy of Music in London. www.doricstringquartet.com/
A keen orchestral leader, she is currently leader of Aurora Orchestra as well as Principal Second Violin of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and is regularly invited to guest lead orchestras including the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Balthasar Neumann Orchestra.
Maia is First Prize winner of the 2013 Leopold Mozart Competition and Second Prize winner of the 2018 Johann Sebastian Bach Competition, and has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the Kammerorchester Basel, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Augsburg Philharmonic, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra and Munich Radio Orchestra, among others.
An extremely passionate chamber musician, she has performed at festivals such as Marlboro, Lockenhaus, Staunton and Esbjerg Music Festivals, and is a regular participant at Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music. Her chamber music collaborations include Kristian Bezuidenhout, Vilde Frang, Nobuko Imai, Steven Isserlis, Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Anna Prohaska. She is also a member of Spunicunifait, a chamber ensemble dedicated to the study and performance of Mozart’s six string quintets on period instruments, which released a critically acclaimed complete cycle on Alpha in 2025. www.spunicunifait.com/
Maia’s debut solo recording featured contrasting works by Schnittke and Mozart. Her most recent solo CD, Folk Roots, recorded with pianist Zoltán Fejérvári and percussionist Alexandros Giovanos, was released by Genuin Classics and features works by Central and Eastern European composers strongly influenced by folk traditions.
Maia was born in Japan in 1992 and is of Argentinean heritage. She studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, and the Hochschule für Musik in Basel, and was a member of the Berlin Philharmonic Karajan Academy from 2012–2014. Her principal teachers have included Ida Kavafian, Joseph Silverstein, Antje Weithaas and Rainer Schmidt.
Apart from music, she is a great lover of food, travel and spending time outdoors whenever the sun makes an appearance (she lives in Berlin).
A keen orchestral leader, she is currently leader of Aurora Orchestra as well as Principal Second Violin of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and is regularly invited to guest lead orchestras including the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Balthasar Neumann Orchestra.
Maia is First Prize winner of the 2013 Leopold Mozart Competition and Second Prize winner of the 2018 Johann Sebastian Bach Competition, and has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the Kammerorchester Basel, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Augsburg Philharmonic, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra and Munich Radio Orchestra, among others.
An extremely passionate chamber musician, she has performed at festivals such as Marlboro, Lockenhaus, Staunton and Esbjerg Music Festivals, and is a regular participant at Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music. Her chamber music collaborations include Kristian Bezuidenhout, Vilde Frang, Nobuko Imai, Steven Isserlis, Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Anna Prohaska. She is also a member of Spunicunifait, a chamber ensemble dedicated to the study and performance of Mozart’s six string quintets on period instruments, which released a critically acclaimed complete cycle on Alpha in 2025. www.spunicunifait.com/
Maia’s debut solo recording featured contrasting works by Schnittke and Mozart. Her most recent solo CD, Folk Roots, recorded with pianist Zoltán Fejérvári and percussionist Alexandros Giovanos, was released by Genuin Classics and features works by Central and Eastern European composers strongly influenced by folk traditions.
Maia was born in Japan in 1992 and is of Argentinean heritage. She studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, and the Hochschule für Musik in Basel, and was a member of the Berlin Philharmonic Karajan Academy from 2012–2014. Her principal teachers have included Ida Kavafian, Joseph Silverstein, Antje Weithaas and Rainer Schmidt.
Apart from music, she is a great lover of food, travel and spending time outdoors whenever the sun makes an appearance (she lives in Berlin).