Bio
Multi award-winning London-based Christian pianist & conductor Maria Marchant performs frequently for numerous festivals, music societies, recordings, projects and concerts at leading venues in the UK and abroad. Her performances have been featured on radio stations internationally including BBC Radio 3 ‘Breakfast’, ‘In Tune’ and ‘Record Review’, WMNR Radio in the USA and Premier Christian Radio in addition to TV shows such as the BBC Great British Menu and the BBC One Show. Maria has been awarded a ‘Digital Classical Music Award’ for the Best Digital Project by a Musician following the success of her 60 week global online composition project #7Notesin7Daysat7pm as featured on Classic FM, Gramophone Blog and International Piano. Maria’s 2024 concerts include a performance of Chopin’s 2nd Piano Concerto with Worthing Symphony on 19th May, chamber music concerts as a member of the Stradivarius Piano Trio at Shipley Arts Festival, solo recitals, conducting events and more…
Maria Marchant performs at leading venues in the UK and abroad. She has played piano at numerous venues including Cadogan Hall, Champs Hill, Konzerthaus (Berlin), Royal Albert Hall, Southbank Centre, St David’s Hall (Cardiff), St John’s Smith Square, Steinway Hall, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Wigmore Hall and the Y Theatre (Hong Kong).
Maria is pianist-in-residence in the Shipley Arts Festival and a founding member of the Stradivarius Piano Trio who have a busy concert schedule and have featured on BBC Great British Menu; she frequently collaborates with composers, including Roderick Williams OBE and has had numerous works written for her to premiere. Maria’s debut SOMM Recordings CD, Echoes of Land & Sea, was released to critical acclaim and her second SOMM album, Bantock Rediscovered, reached No. 15 in the Official Classical Chart, featuring works never before recorded on disc. She has extensive experience as a concerto soloist and has performed with Worthing Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Gibbons and the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Brian Kay in addition to working with leading international orchestral players and singers.
Maria studied piano, singing and conducting at Trinity Laban (formerly Trinity College of Music), winning numerous piano competitions in addition to the Conducting Prize before gaining the MMus in Advanced Piano Performance at the Royal College of Music as an RCM Hilda Anderson Deane Scholar and BBC Performing Arts Fund Award recipient. She has studied with many professors including Alexander Ardakov, Philip Colman, Niel Immelman and Yonty Solomon. She won the International Hindemith Competition, Berlin, and was selected as an artist on the Concordia, Tillett Trust and Park Lane Group schemes resulting in Wigmore and Southbank appearances. Maria has played for HRH Duchess of Cornwall, Dame Mary Berry and numerous celebrities in addition to patients in hospital and believes in sharing music with everyone; she has also worked as ambassador for the Concordia Foundation, a charity set up to support vulnerable communities through the Arts. An experienced educator, Maria works coaching choristers at King’s College School, Cambridge, in their annual Scholars’ Concerts; she sung for 12 years as soprano with the BBC Symphony Chorus and is also an experienced conductor, ABRSM Examiner and accompanist.
Maria has written articles and blogs for several classical music publications including Gramophone Magazine and Music Matters.
