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Curriculum Vitae Magda Mayas - Piano, clavinet, composition Magda Mayas, born 1979, is a pianist living in Berlin. Over the past 20 years she developed a vocabulary utilizing both the inside as well as the exterior parts of the piano, using amplification, preparations and objects that become extensions of the instrument itself. Mayas explores textural, linear sound collage, and has developed a set of techniques that draw on the history of prepared and inside piano vocabulary, but are highly individualized and expand the language for internal piano music making. Alongside the piano, Mayas performs on a Clavinet/Pianet, an electric piano from the 60s with strings and metal chimes, where she engages with noise and more visceral sound material, equally extending the instrumental sound palette using extended techniques and devices. She is currently undertaking Phd studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden investigating instrumental techniques, the real-time orchestration of timbre and spatiality in improvised music performance. Mayas performs internationally solo and in collaboration with a large number of musicians and composers. Current projects are "Spill", a duo with drummer Tony Buck, a duo with Christine Abdelnour (sax) and "Great Waitress", a trio with Monika Brooks (acc) and Laura Altman (cl). Magda Mayas has performed and toured in Europe, the USA, Australia, Mexico and Lebanon and collaborated with many leading figures in improvisation and composers such as John Butcher, George Lewis, Andy Moor, Eddie Prévost, Phill Niblock, David Sylvian, Zeena Parkins, Fred Frith, Hamid Drake, Joelle Leandre, Paul Lovens, Ikue Mori, Andrea Neumann and Axel Dörner. She has performed at festivals and exhibitions such as Maerz Musik (2012,2015), Documenta (2012), the Berlin Biennale (2014) or Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (2015). She was awarded a residency at Villa Aurora, Los Angeles in 2016 and at the Montalvo Arts Centre, USA in 2017. Additionaly, she has been curating, producing radio pieces for ABC Australia and Deutschlandradio Kultur and released over 20 CDS to date. Academic Studies Mayas studied Jazz Piano at “Universität der Künste” Berlin 1999-2001, followed by an "Erasmus" exchange year at the “Conservatorium van Amsterdam” under Misha Mengelberg, 2001. Further Studies and Diploma in Jazz piano performance at “Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler" Berlin under Georg Gräwe, 2002-2004. Since 2015, she is undertaking Phd studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden in Music Performance and Interpretation, investigating instrumental techniques, timbre and spatiality in improvised music performance. Performances/Collaborations (selection) Mayas performs internationally solo and in collaboration with a large number of musicians and composers. Magda Mayas has toured in Europe, the USA, Australia, Mexico and Lebanon and collaborated with many leading figures in improvisation and composers such as John Butcher, George Lewis, Andy Moor, Eddie Prévost, Phill Niblock, David Sylvian, Zeena Parkins, Fred Frith, Hamid Drake, Joelle Leandre, Paul Lovens, Ikue Mori, Andrea Neumann and Axel Dörner. 2018 September with Christine Abdelnour at Ultima Festival Oslo 2018 September, at Willisau Jazz Festival with Spill 2018 August at Meteo Festival France with Splitter Orchester 2018 July at Kopenhagen Jazzfestival with Lotte Anker and Fred Frith 2018 July at Kongsberg Jazzfestival with Christian Wallumröd 2018 June, International Jazzfestival at the Sydney Conservatorium with Spill 2018 May, at Akademie der Künste Berlin, with Next International Ken Vandermark, Mette Rasmussen, Nate Wooley, Mats Äleklint, Jasper Stadhouders, Emilio Gordoa, Steve Heather 2018 April, with Susanne Abbuehl and Marylin Mazur at Lyon Opera 2018 March,Borealis festival with Stephan Meidell’s Metrics 2018 February, Solo at the Berlin Berlinale, in a project with Georges Méliès movies 2017, November, New York, Stone mit Ikue Mori, Tony Buck, Ned Rothenberg und Billy Martin 2017, November, New York, duo mit Zeena Parkins, Columbia University 2017, October at Dom, Moscow, with Spill 2017, August, Méteo Festival Mulhouse, with Spill 2017, August, A l’arme Festival Berlin, with Okkyung Lee, Chris Corsano and Christine Abdelnour 2017, July, Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf, mit Mazen Kerbaj, Mike Majkowski, Tony Buck 2017 July, Kopenhagen Jazz festival with Lotte Anker and Tony Buck, 2016, November, Bimhuis Amsterdam, Necks 30th Anniversary Festival, with Tony Buck and John Butcher 2016, November, at “Music Unlimited” Wels, Austria, with Zeena Parkins, Carla Kihlstedt and Bob Ostertag 2016, September, LA Duo with Maja Ratkje 2016 May, The Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, with Spill 2016, April, “Geiger”, Gothenburg, with Eddie Prévost, Palle Dahlstedt and Per Anders Nilsson 2015 November, at the Huddersfield Festival for Contemporary Music, with Berlin Splitter Orchester 2015 November, at Jazzfest Berlin, with Berlin Splitter Orchester 2015 July, Kongsberg Jazz Festival wit Spill 2015 June , Art of improvisation Festival, Wroclav, with Tony Buck and John Butcher 2015 May , El nicho Festival Mexico City, Spill 2015 March, Maerzmusik Festival, Berlin, within a project of Zeena Parkins 2015 March, Solo at Monash University Melbourne, Australia 2015, Februar, Solo at “Te Uru” Gallery Auckland, New Zealand, as part of the Michael Parekowhai Piano Artwork Exhibition 2014 November, with John Butcher and Tony Buck at Cafe Oto, London 2014 October, Festival Densites, France with Laura Altman and Monika Brooks 2014 October performance within a project of Tarek Atoui at the Louis Vuitton Foundation Paris, with Ikue Mori, Jim Black, Zeena Parkins, Keith Rowe, Burkhard Beins, Axel Dörner, among others 2014 May/June performance within a project of Tarek Atoui at the Berlin Biennale, at the Museum for Music Ethnology in Berlin Dahlem 2014 May, „ausland“ Berlin, with Jon Rose 2014 January, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, with Laura Altman and Monika Brooks 2014 January, Cave 12, Geneva, with Laura Altman and Monika Brooks 2014 January, „All ears festival“ ,Oslo with Laura Altman and Monika Brooks 2013 November, “Suddenly Listen” Music series, Halifax, Canada 2013 October, “Dream Machine” Festival, Beirut, solo performance with “N+M” sound and video installation by Phill Niblock 2013 September, Baltimore, USA, “High Zero” festival, solo 2013 September, “Roulette” New York, Solo 2013 September, “Walcheturm” Zurich, with Daniel Studer, Peter Frey 2013 August, “Concepts of doing” Festival Berlin, with Chris Burn 2013 July, “Konfrontationen“ Festival, Austria, with Paul Lovens, Tony Buck, Hamid Drake, Joelle Leandre, Liz Albee, Christoph Kurzmann.. “Butch Morris Memorial Band” 2013 April,”If you say so” Festival, Bydgoszcz, Poland, with Tony Buck 2013 January, Sydney, “505” with Laura Altman and Monika Brooks 2013 January, Canberra, Australia,“Sound out Festival”, with Laura Altman and Monika Brooks 2012 November, “Sound of Stockholm” Festival with Laura Altman and David Stackenäs 2012 November, “Fri Resonans” Festival, Trondheim, with Tony Buck and Laura Altman 2012 November, “Unlimited Festival” Wels, Austria, with Laura Altman and Monika Brooks 2012 October, “Rendez vous contemporains de saint merry”, Paris, with Laura Altman 2012 October, London, “Cafe Oto” with Laura Altman and Phil Durrant 2012 October, Sibiu, Romania, “Jazz and more Festival” with Tony Buck, James Welburn and Brendan Dougherty 2012 September, San Francisco, CNMAT Berkley, with Gino Robair and Tony Buck 2012 September, Seattle,USA, ”Nonsequitur” concert series, solo 2012 September,Interdisciplinary project with writer Carla Harryman (USA) presented at “Dokumenta 2012” 2012 July Arhus, Denmark Jazz festival, with Mike Majkowski and Chris Heenan 2012 May , “Muse ruole Festival”, Bolzano, solo 2012 April,”Soddjazz “ Festival, Trondheim, with Tony Buck 2012 April, “Smalt” concert series, Rjukan,Norway, with Tony Buck 2012 April, “Frim Syd” Malmo, with Anders Lindsjo and Tony Buck 2012 February, “Hurta Cordel Festival, Barcelona, with Tony Buck 2012 January, “Zwei Tage Zeit” Festival Zürich, with Tony Buck 2011 November, “Sound trips” Tour in Munster, Cologne, Wuppertal, Germany,with Christine Abdelnour 2011 October, “Densites” Festival, France, with Jim Denley 2011 September, “I beam”, New York, with Nate Wooley and Tony Buck 2011 September, “Hallwalls” Buffalo, with Tony Buck 2011 September, “Roulette “ New York, with Tony Buck 2011 August, “Meteo festival”, Mulhouse, France, with Christine Abdelnour 2011 July, “Konfrontationen” Austria, with Laura Altman and Monika Brooks 2011 May, “Codes” Festival, Lublin, Poland with Christine Abdelnour 2011 May, “Freedom of the city” festival, London with John Butcher and Tony Buck 2011 March, Collaboration with Phill Niblock on the video installation piece “N+M” which was premiered in Berlin at the festival “Maerzmusik” and presented at the Elysee Lausanne as part of his 80th anniversary retrospective 2011 February, New Zealand tour, with Tony Buck 2011 January Festival “Mona Foma”, Hobart, Australia, with Tony Buck 2011 January, “Soundout” Festival Canberra, with Tony Buck 2011 January, “Bennets Lane”, Melbourne, solo 2010 November, “ÄÄNEN LUMO” Festival Helsinki, with Tony Buck 2010 October, Oslo, “Nasjonal Jazzscene”, with Tony Buck 2010 September, “Echtzeitmusik” Festival, Berlin, Solo 2010 September,Ystad, “Modern Art Museum” with poets Ida Borjel and Uljana Wolf 2010 May, “Ring Ring” festival , Belgrade with Tony Buck, James Welburn and Brendan Dougherty 2010 May, “Cafe Oto” with John