Maya Oganyan, eighteen years old, was born in Moscow and began studying the piano at the age of four with M° Alexander Maykapar, professor at the "Gnessin" Music Academy in Moscow, who gave her a wide approach to music and art. With M° Maykapar she conducted an intensive study of baroque pieces on historical instruments and italian arias, which she performed in her first concert at 6 years old.

In 2015 she entered the “Benedetto Marcello” Conservatory in Venice, where she studied under the guidance of M° Massimo Somenzi and M° Olaf John Laneri. 

 

Winner of more than 20 national and international competitions, among which the"Schumann Prize 2023", also winning the Public Prize, the First Prize in the "Young Female Talents of Music" Competition of Soroptimist International and at just 17 years old, as the youngest finalist and winner of the 2nd Prize in the history of the competition, of the Jury Prize and Special Prize "for the best female talent", the "Verona International Piano Competition", in which she participated as the youngest candidate. In 2024 she is selected as “student in residence” at the Verbier Soloists Academy of the 31st Verbier Festival, where she participates in concerts and attends masterclasses from internationally celebrated musicians including Sir Andras Schiff, Rena Shereshevskaya, Kirill Gerstein, Joaquin Achucarro. 

 

She performs abroad and throughout Italy, she is regularly invited to renowned festivals, among which we highlight the Unione Musicale of Turin, Società del Quartetto of Milan, Trame Sonore Chamber Music Festival of Mantua, Amici della Musica of Mestre, Ascoli Piceno Festival, Cremona International Music Festival, Primavera Chigiana, Patmos Chamber Music Festival. As a soloist she performs with numerous orchestras, including the Fenice Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels Chamber Orchestra, the Padua and Veneto Orchestra, the Arena di Verona Orchestra, the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, the “Virtuosi Italiani” Orchestra.

 

An avid chamber musician, Maya studies since young age piano duo and then piano trio at the Academy of Imola and now regularly collaborates in chamber ensembles with leading musicians, including among others Alessandro Carbonare, Steven Isserlis, Ian Bostridge, Sonig Tchakerian, Anush Nikogosyan, Silvia Careddu, Christophe Coin, the Adorno Quartet.

 

In 2021, at 15 years old, she performs in one of her first concerts with orchestra accompanied by the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Eduard Topchjan, in the Yerevan Opera Theatre, in the presence of M° Riccardo Muti, which is then followed by many positive remarks from M° Muti himself.

The program is repeated at the Toniolo Theater in Mestre, at the Verdi Theater in Florence and at the Verdi Theater in Pordenone. In 2023 she returns to play in Yerevan performing Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos with pianist Eva Gevorgyan. Maya is invited to play Mozart’s Concerto n. 23 with the Armenian Philharmonic and in duo with the violinist Sonig Tchakerian, in the Paolina Chapel of the Quirinale Palace in the presence of President Sergio Mattarella, President Armen Sarkissian and the authorities.

 

Nowadays she continues her studies under the guidance of M° Roberto Prosseda at the Prato Academy, with M° Enrico Pace at the Pinerolo Academy and regularly attends the advanced specialization course with M° Lilya Zilberstein at the Accademia Chigiana.