MARIA ANASTASIA – Klavier, Geige, Loop – Crossover

In the organizer's words:

"...after all, Maria Anastasia played with such soul that she won over the audience in no time and no one could escape her elegant runs and powerful chords."
Süddeutsche Zeitung

The Starnberg-born pianist, composer and violinist Maria Anastasia is one of the most creative minds in new music. She confidently combines classical virtuosity with elements of neoclassicism, Eastern European phrases, rhythmic passages and elegiac sounds on the piano and violin.

The artist dedicates herself to her new project with just as much sensitivity and powerful depth: she composes the music and plays it live on both instruments, which she layers on top of each other with the help of a loop station. She playfully transcends the boundaries between classical, modern and traditional music and juggles styles and instruments with aplomb. It quickly becomes clear that this is a thoroughbred musician creating her own magical worlds.

Maria Anastasia Hörner was accepted as a junior student in Professor Michael Lesslie's class at the former Richard Strauss Conservatory at an early age and went on to study piano with Professor Michael Schäfer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. She was a scholarship holder of Lord Yehudi Menuhin's Live Music Now Foundation in the subject "piano solo", is a prize winner (2nd prize) at the Komitas Piano Competition Berlin and has performed with renowned orchestras such as the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the Munich Symphony Orchestra and is a scholarship holder of GEMA and the German Music Council.

The versatile musician works as an "external interpreter" at various music academies and in 2020 released the album Histoire du Tango by Astor Piazzolla together with violinist Markus Menke, 1st concertmaster of the Lüneburg Symphony Orchestra.