Born into a musical family, Maria Marica started playing the violin at the age of seven. After having studied with Vasile Socea and Nicușor Silaghi in her hometown, she is currently studying in Germany with David Grimal (violin) and Krzysztof Chorzelski (chamber music).
She is the winner of George Enescu International Competition 2022 and in June of the same year she won the New Hope Grand Prix Competition in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, thus having the chance to perform with 10 philharmonic orchestras all over Romania in the 2022-2023 season.
Maria Marica has performed all over Romania, as well as in France, Italy, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Germany and the United States and in November 2023 her recital at the Romanian Atheneum was included in the Top Young Performers Series of the European Broadcasting Union. She has had the chance to play chamber music alongside great artists like Marc Coppey, David Grimal, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Victor Julien-Laferrière, Solenne Païdassi, Philippe Cassard, among others. In 2022 and 2023 she participated in the Lumières d’Europe Academy and Festival, working with David Grimal, Gary Hoffman, Anne Gastinel, Philippe Cassard, Diemut Poppen and Claire Désert.
She is a member of Les Dissonances, the only ensemble that plays symphonic repertoire without conductor and she has also been a member of the Romanian Youth Orchestra and the Romanian Chamber Orchestra.
Maria Marica had the chance to work with violinists like Leonidas Kavakos, Nora Chastain, Mihaela Martin, Rosanne Philippens, Kolja Blacher, Gerhard Schulz, and to take part in chamber music programs such as SoNoRo Interferences and Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival in California, benefiting from the advice of such musicians as Frans Helmerson, Boris Brovtsyn, Sergey Malov, Diana Ketler, Clive Greensmith, Erin Keefe and members of the Emerson String Quartet, among others.
She plays a violin by Auguste Sébastien Philippe Bernardel from 1845 on private loan.
