Maria Ioudenitch
Violinist Maria Ioudenitch came to international prominence in 2021 after winning First Prize at three major international violin competitions: the Ysaÿe International Violin Competition, the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition, and the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition. She also received numerous special awards, including the Joachim Chamber Music Prize, the Prize for the Best Performance of the Commissioned Work, and the Henle Urtext Prize.In 2023, she received the Opus Klassik Award in the category "Chamber Music Recording of the Year" for her debut album Songbird, released by Warner Classics. The album's imaginative programming reflects her distinctive artistic personality and adventurous musical approach.
Her current concerto repertoire includes violin concertos by Brahms, Barber, Dvořák, Glazunov, and Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1. In recital, she combines the core violin repertoire with works by Lili Boulanger and Germaine Tailleferre.
Highlights of the 2025/26 season include debuts with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop, the Orchestra of the Royal Danish Opera under Marie Jacquot, the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra under Jan Willem de Vriend, and the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies. Together with the Basel Symphony Orchestra and Markus Poschner, she tours Munich, Vienna, and Ljubljana. She will also appear with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, the Nuremberg State Philharmonic, and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, and returns to the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra to perform Dvořák's Violin Concerto.
Maria Ioudenitch also performs extensively throughout North America. During the 2025/26 season, she appears with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the North Carolina Symphony, among others.
Together with pianist Roman Borisov, she presents recitals at the Brucknerhaus Linz, in Staufen, and at London's Wigmore Hall. She is a member of the chamber music collective ensemble132, which will release an album featuring works by Stravinsky and Schumann in early 2026. Her chamber music partners include Inmo Yang, Stephen Waarts, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Julian Steckel, and Pablo Barragán.
In recent seasons, she has appeared with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin at the Berliner Philharmonie, the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. She has collaborated with conductors including Andrey Boreyko, Donald Runnicles, Alpesh Chauhan, Marta Gardolińska, Holly Hyun Choe, Jonathan Bloxham, Yi-Chen Lin, Ryan Bancroft, Kevin John Edusei, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Andrew Manze, Robin Ticciati, and Ruth Reinhardt.
Raised in Kansas City, Maria Ioudenitch began playing the violin at the age of three with Gregory Sandomirsky. She studied with Ben Sayevich at the International Center for Music in Kansas City, with Pamela Frank and Shmuel Ashkenasi at the Curtis Institute of Music, and with Miriam Fried at the New England Conservatory. She subsequently completed the Professional Studies Programme at the Kronberg Academy under the guidance of Christian Tetzlaff.
Maria Ioudenitch, photo: Andrej Grilc
