About 

Maria Tarasewicz has gained an international reputation as a chamber musician, duo partner and a pedagogue. She is committed to working with and developing younger artists, and invitations not only as a performer but also as a teacher and accompanist have taken her to Norway, Belgium, France, Italy, Jersey, San Marino, Poland, China and many UK festivals and masterclasses. In the recent years Maria has developed a unique coaching programme for strings at the Royal College of Music, London. She is now based in Belgium from where she coaches and consults high-level string instrumentalist from all around the world.

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On her path she had been inspired by many fantastic artists whose influence has shaped the direction of her music-making. The pantheon of these is large and include Ivry Gitlis, Maxim Vengerov, Gavriel Lipkind, Vladimir Perlin, Leonid Gorokhov, Eugeni and Olga Moguilevski, Natalia Radecka, Iya Pavlova, Boyan Vodenitcharov, Michael Dussek and many more.

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Maria searches for artistic answers through being the co-founder of  The Thinking Musician and outreach projects with organisations such as BlindAid.

 

Inevitably the truth is that, by searching answers, she only finds more questions.