Biography
Maria, a classical pianist and avid violinist, has shared the stage with a multitude of performers including Chris Botti, Alexander Markov, and Francesca DePasquale. While Maria frequently presents solo and collaborative performances in the Philadelphia area, she has also performed solo piano in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and performed with multiple orchestras on the Marian Anderson Hall stage at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia.
Maria performed for a program in Italy in which she accompanied opera singers in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and she has been musical director for the Delaware Valley Opera Company and Wilmington Concert Opera. Maria made her debut at the Walnut Street Theatre pit orchestra with their production of Elf the Musical. She is a recipient of the Association of Church Musicians of Philadelphia Organ Grant and is currently the organist at Our Lady of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church in Strafford, PA. Maria is the pianist for the Haverford College choirs, Staff Pianist Artist in Residence at Temple University and Staff Pianist at the University of Delaware as well as an Executive Board Member of Local 77-274, Philadelphia’s Musician’s Union.
Maria has studied under Charles Abramovic, Lambert Orkis, Jane Abbott-Kirk, and Sheila Paige and is an advocate of the Taubman technique. She earned her B.M. in Piano Performance from Baylor University in Waco, TX and a double M.M. in Piano Performance and Collaborative Piano from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.