About Maya Dunietz
Maya Dunietz (Hebrew: מאיה דוניץ; April 16, 1981 in Tel Aviv), is an Israeli musician and artist, combining a solo career with collaborations with renowned musicians: Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Roscoe Mitchell, John Tilbury, Habiluim, and many others. Her works are exhibited in venues such as Centre Pompidou Paris, Athens Onassis Center, Frac Paca, CCA Tel Aviv and Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. == Musical education and early career == Dunietz began to study piano at the age of 5 with Jenina Lobenberg. She also studied flute with Moshe Epstein, theory, and solfege with Lev Kogan. At age 10 she took composition with Keren Rosenbaum, who introduced her to a new world of experimentation with sound and ignited an ongoing creative collaboration with Rosenbaum and her Reflex Ensemble. Between 1993-2006 Dunietz studied piano with Naomi Lev, Daniel Gortler, Yaron Godfried, Ofer Bryer, Amit Golan and Alexander Volkov. Dunietz studied at Thelma Yellin School of Fine Arts majoring in jazz piano, graduating in 1998. During that time, she performed with various projects including Reflex Ensemble, Jerusalem Salsa Band, Avram Felder Big Band and Bat Kol Choir. At 16 years of age, Dunietz traveled to Côte D'ivoire as the young Israeli representative of Jeunesses Musicales for an international music convention, where she met mbira master, singer, and songwriter Chiwoniso Maraire who became her close friend and artistic collaborator until Maraire's passing in 2013. In 1999, Dunietz enrolled in The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, New York.
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