Maya Magub

Maya Magub – violin

British violinist Maya Magub was a scholarship student at the Purcell School and the Royal Academy of Music, London, and has a first class music degree from Gonville and Caius, Cambridge University. She continued her studies at the Vienna Hochschule and as an ESU scholar at Aspen. Her teachers included Maurice Clare and György Pauk and she took part in numerous master-classes including two with Lord Yehudi Menuhin broadcast on British television.

Maya now lives in California. She leads a varied career playing on top Hollywood movie scores, performing chamber music with fellow studio musicians and coaching young musicians, as well as returning to Europe for concert tours and recordings. 

In London, Maya was concert-master in many prestigious venues, including the Queen Elizabeth Hall and St. Martin in the Fields, and sub-principal in Vienna and Los Angeles for Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s complete Beethoven symphony cycles with Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique. Maya has toured extensively abroad, including performances in Tokyo, Mumbai, Rio and throughout Europe and the USA. 

Maya’s solo performances include the Mozart, Bruch, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky concertos, Bruch’s ‘Scottish Fantasy’ and Delius’ ‘Légend’. She has performed the Bach concertos and Brandenburg concertos in St. Martin in the Fields and Dvorak’s solo ‘Romance’ in the Royal Albert Hall.

In her 20s, Maya was invited by Queen Elizabeth II to Buckingham Palace as part of an event honoring "young achievers". In 2015, Maya performed unaccompanied Bach to Prof Stephen Hawking in a concert celebrating his 50th year with Cambridge University, at Gonville and Caius College.

A committed chamber musician, Maya was a founder member of the Mainardi Trio and has performed chamber music with such distinguished artists as Gil Shaham, Howard Shelley, Melvyn Tan, Christoph Hartmann, Marianne Thorsen, the Emperor Quartet, and the Calder Quartet. 

Maya was a member of the London Mozart Players for many years, performing also with their chamber ensemble. Drawing on her experience of larger period instrument ensembles, she has also performed Classical chamber works on period instruments.

Maya has played on hundreds of movies, including as a featured soloist on several, and has been concert master on movie soundtracks in both London and Hollywood .

She has released 4 albums on the CRD label which have been streamed over a million times. Maya’s album “Consolations”, with pianist Hsin-I Huang, features her own arrangements of Liszt. “Canons” is a collaboration with string players from around the globe in works by Telemann and Mozart. Maya recorded the complete Mozart and Michael Haydn violin/viola duos with Judith Busbridge, and her solo recording of the Telemann Fantasias was released on CRD to critical acclaim: 

“Magub seizes every opportunity to indulge in impressive feats of technical bravado. Defined by great bowing delicacy and subtle use of vibrato, these performances are full of colour and vitality. … the performances successfully tread the fine line between colourful display and stylistic authority to result in a disc of hugely communicative violin playing.”

International Record Review

“It makes listening to this performance a really joyous experience…with Magub’s endless inventiveness driving each tiny movement…” 

“Maya Magub succeeds…in leading the listener through Telemann’s maze of musical mini-experiments with so much engagement that it is impossible to turn them off until they’re finished”. 

 Gramophone