Maja Cerar – Past Concerts

Violinist Maja Cerar's repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the present, and her stage experience includes performances with live electronics as well as theater and dance. Since her debut in the Zürich Tonhalle in 1991, she has performed internationally as a soloist with orchestras and given recitals with distinguished artists.

In 2016, she was the featured performer at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF), an event of the New York Philharmonic Biennial, and she has continued as a featured performer with NYCEMF to the present. Her collaborative works have been featured at the "Re:New Frontiers of Creativity" symposium celebrating the 250th anniversary of Columbia University and "Listening in the Sound Kitchen" festival at Princeton University. She has also created her own works, fostered by The Tribeca Film Institute’s “Tribeca Hacks” and by the Future Music Lab at the Atlantic Music Festival, involving robotics and wearable motion sensors.

Maja Cerar has premiered and recorded numerous works written for and dedicated to her. She has worked with composers Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Sebastian Currier, R. Luke DuBois, Beat Furrer, Elizabeth Hoffman, György Kurtág, Alvin Lucier, Katharine Norman, Yoshiaki Onishi, Morton Subotnick, and John Zorn.

Ms. Cerar graduated from the Zurich-Winterthur Conservatory and has a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from Columbia University, where she is currently a member of the Music Performance Faculty.