Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art 2006
February 22 - 26, 2006: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Featured Artist: Maja Cerar, violin
Critics have consistently praised Maja Cerar as a "magnificent violinist" with "breathtaking
technique" and "a completely natural musicality," an artist who "listens to her inner self."
International media enthusiastically cover her concerts,
Compact Disk releases, television appearances and radio recordings.
Maja Cerar has premiered and recorded numerous works written for and dedicated to her. Since her debut in the Zurich Tonhalle in 1991 she has played as a soloist with orchestras in Europe, given recitals with distinguished artists on international tours (Paris, Rome, Washington, Chicago, New York) as well as at festivals such as the Davos "Young Artist in Concert," the Lockenhaus, and the Aspen Music Festival. Her repertoire ranges from the baroque to the present and her stage experience, besides solo and chamber music, includes performances with live electronics as well as theater and dance productions. After her Matura from Literary Gymnasium in Zurich, Maja Cerar graduated with honors from the Conservatory where she studied under Aida Stucki-Piraccini. She also took master classes with Zakhar Bron, Franco Gulli, Igor Oistrakh, and Igor Ozim. From 1995 to 2001 she polished her performance further with Dorothy DeLay and Kurt Nikkanen in New York. Ms. Cerar has worked with composers Beat Furrer, György Kurtág, Sebastian Currier, and John Zorn, as well as many emerging New York composers. She received her Master of Arts and Master of Philosophy degrees in Historical Musicology at Columbia University where she is now a candidate for the Ph.D (Dissertation on Schubert's late string quartets), teaches Music Humanities and serves on the editorial board of Current Musicology.