Margaret Maria
Composer
‘I listened in awe’ – The WholeNote Magazine
‘A brilliant display of virtuosity’ – The WholeNote Magazine
‘edgy, challenging and incredibly powerful’ – Bluewolf Reviews
‘Absolutely fantastic’ – Bluewolf reviews
‘Mesmerizing’ – CBC Radio
‘Absolutely transporting’ – CBC Radio
‘A magic in itself’ – Ottawa Life Magazine
‘I take heart from Margaret Maria’s music. It does have healing powers’ – WholeNote Magazine
‘She creates mesmerizing soundscapes with her cello and some technological tricks in her studio’ – CBC Radio
With her masterful skills as an extraordinary cellist merging with the intuition of a gifted creator, Margaret Maria is a unique and exciting new voice in the world of new music. Her compositional talents have been described by her colleagues as, ‘an unstoppable force of nature – seamless in its complete unification of technical and subconscious realms’.
‘With a kind of synesthesia, I take energy waves of a moment in time, expand its emotions within me, then coat it in musical notes that are sent back out into the world as music. It is my voice making a statement on what it means to be a spirit in a human form living in this world today.’
A graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music, her performance career has seen her play on concert stages around the globe and in the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the National Arts Centre Orchestra. Her later in life transition into composition has seen her work performed on stage in her very first World Premiere. ’Between Worlds’ was premiered in 2019 by the Ottawa Chamber Orchestra, with the great Canadian soprano Donna Brown and the soprano with cello orchestra version was released June 2022 on CMC’s Centrediscs/NAXOS Labels.
From releasing 15 Studio albums, co-creating Rage Angel (Toronto) and Cinematic Steampunk (Los Angeles), co-creating ‘Art in Divine Harmony’ videos with the incredible Spanish surrealist painter Ángel Muriel, co-creating spontaneous improvised creations as part of a duo with pianist Bill Gilliam called ‘Marbyllia’, receiving Ontario Arts Council recording grants and Canada Council Grants for study abroad and music creation, to being a Kickass Canadian, the sky is the limit when it comes to Margaret Maria’s imagination and creations.
