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Maie Bertram

Maie Bertram began playing the violin, aged five, in Germany. Four years later she became a student of Professor Atila Aydintan at the University of Music in Hanover. She was admitted to the University for Music in Detmold at the age of thirteen, where she studied with Professor Eckhard Fischer. In 2004, she entered the Graz University of Music in the class of Professor Yair Kless. In June 2008 she graduated with distinction. Maie is currently studying with Professor Rainer Kussmaul at the University of Music in Freiburg.

Her artistic education is strongly marked through regular participation in festivals and international master classes with many sought after pedagogues such as Hermann Krebbers, Igor Ozim, Thomas Brandis, Gérard Poulet, Olivier Charlier, Stephan Picard, Sergey Kravchenko, Akiko Tatsumi and Ivry Gitlis.

With much passion, the young violinist also dedicates herself to chamber music. During her participation in the chamber music project “Musik Miteinander” at the Kronberg Academy, she worked with, among others, Antoine Tamestit, Peter Buck and Friedemann Eichhorn. She received further impulses from the Auryn Quartet and Professor Wolfgang Jahn.

Maie Bertram is a prize winner in the “Jugend musiziert” competition. 

As a member of the Bundesjugendorchesters, the Jungen Deutschen Philharmonie and the European Union Youth Orchestras (EUYO), she has played under conductors such as Bernard Haitink, Sir Colin Davis, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Sir John Eliot Gardiner in many of the important music metropolises of Europe. In 2008/2009 Maie Bertram was a member of the orchestra academy of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.

The young violinist gave her debut as a soloist at the Kurhaus in Baden-Baden with Johannes Brahms’ Violin Concerto. In following solo engagements she played in the Cologne Philharmonic, in the Grazer Congress and in the Viennese Musikverein.

Since 2005 she has been the recipient of a scholarship from the "Live Music Now" foundation, established by Yehudi Menhuin.