Student Artist - Maya Cohon

Maya Cohon, is a junior at the Northwest School. She began playing violin at the age of five, and has been studying under Margaret Pressley for the past eight years. Maya is a grateful recipient of a scholarship from the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation, which funds her studies with Ms. Pressley and tuition at the Seattle Conservatory of Music, where she takes academic music classes and participates in chamber music and solo performance programs.

Maya had her solo debut at age 12, performing the Bruch Violin Concerto with the Musicians Emeritus Orchestra, and in March 2009 performed Ravel's Tzigane with the Coeur d'Alene Symphony Orchestra as a winner of its concerto competition. This year Maya also won first place in the Seattle Music Teachers Association Simon-Fiset Violin Competition and was a finalist in the Seattle Young Artists Music Festival concerto competition.

This summer (2009) Maya will attend the Aspen Music Festival as a student of Naoko Tanaka of the Juilliard School. In past summers, Maya has participated in the Greenwood Music Camp (Massachusetts), the Schlern International Music Festival (Italy), Music-in-the-Mountains (Colorado), and Summer Music Berkeley (California).