Benutzer:Maria Makraki
Maria Makraki, Conductor
Born in Thessalonica-Greece, Maria Makraki holds a master's degree in physics from the University of Athens. She went on to receive her degrees in piano and composition from the Music Academy of Athens. Being a scholar of DAAD, UdK and the Franz Schubert Foundation, she gained a diploma in orchestral conducting with the highest distinction at the Berlin University of the Arts UdK. Subsequently she concludes postmaster doctoral studies in orchestral conducting at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin and at the Zurich University of the Arts.
In 1996 she won first prize at the 5th International Conducting Competition in the Czech Republic and the special prize in the Carl Maria von Weber conducting competition in Munich, establishing a long collaboration with the Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra. Since then she has also become a scholar of the German Music Council (Deutscher Musikrat Dirigentenforum).
Maria Makraki has regularly conducted and recorded with numerous prominent European orchestras in the Czech Republic, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, the Turkey, the Ukraine and in the USA. These including, among others, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Athens, Bucharest, Cologne, Frankfurt, Munich and Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestras as well as the Berlin, Bochum, Boston, Nuremberg and Tschaikovsky Symphony Orchestras. Furthermore she has conducted concerts with the Baden-Baden, Jenaer, Janacek, Rheinische and Robert Schumann Philharmonics and opera productions with the State Orchestras and Theatres of Bremen, Giessen, Halle, Kassel, Leipzig, Neubrandenburg and Rostock.
In 2000 she won first prize in the conducting competition held by the Bergisch Symphony Orchestra in Solingen, becoming the academy's principal conductor for the period 2000/01 as well as the second prize in the Bad Homburg conducting competition. In addition she has been included as prize winner in the German Music Council's "Maestros von Morgen" list of artists from 2001 to 2005. In 2003 she was appointed resident conductor of the State Orchestra and Theatre of Chemnitz with the Robert Schumann Philharmonic. Maria Makraki has been artistic director of Camerata Europaea in Berlin since 2007. From 2007 to 2009 she was also lecturer for orchestral conducting at the Faculty of Music, University of Macedonia in Thessalonica, Greece. Furthermore, she has been artistic director of the Festival of contemporary music and visual arts "Regain" in Athens in 2012 and also for the newly founded Festival of Culture since 2015.
A main focus of her artistic work lies in the development and implementation of innovative programme concepts for contemporary european music. She is regularly invited as juror for various competitions. Moreover, she works as guest lecturer for orchestral conducting all over Europe and gives talks on "leadership". In 2019 she has been awarded with the Exaleiptron prize for her contribution in promoting the Greek culture in the field of music.
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Mit freundlichen Grüßen,Maria Makraki Dirigentin