Maja Cerar

Violinist Maja Cerar's repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the present, and her stage experience includes performances with live electronics as well as theater and dance. Since her debut in the Zürich Tonhalle in 1991, she has performed internationally as a soloist with orchestras and given recitals with distinguished artists.  She has played at festivals such as the Davos "Young Artist in Concert," Gidon Kremer's Lockenhaus Festival, the International Society for Contemporary Music’s World Music Days in Ljubljana, the International Computer Music Conference  (Singapore, Barcelona, New York, Texas), the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States conference (Texas, Arizona, Florida, Boston), the "Viva Vivaldi" festival in Mexico City, and numerous others. 

In 2016, she was the featured performer at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF), an event of the New York Philharmonic Biennial, and she has continued as a featured performer with NYCEMF to the present. Her collaborative works have been featured at the "Re:New Frontiers of Creativity" symposium celebrating the 250th anniversary of Columbia University and "Listening in the Sound Kitchen" festival at Princeton University.  Since 2014 she has also created her own works, fostered by The Tribeca Film Institute’s “Tribeca Hacks” and by the Future Music Lab at the Atlantic Music Festival, involving robotics and wearable motion sensors.

Maja Cerar has premiered and recorded numerous works written for and dedicated to her.  She has worked with many composers, including Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Sebastian Currier, R. Luke DuBois, Beat Furrer, Elizabeth Hoffman, György Kurtág, Alvin Lucier, Katharine Norman, Yoshiaki Onishi, Morton Subotnick, and John Zorn. 

In 2022 Ms. Cerar published her article “Considering Gestural References to Batéy in Performing Axon by Tania León” in the journal American Music Review. She also presented her academic research on the early history of the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music (SEAMUS conference 2019), organized a panel on the subject of women in early electronic music (International Computer Music Conference, 2019), and presented research on the choreographic evocations of Tania León’s Axon, for solo violin and live electronics at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society in 2019.

She graduated from the Zurich-Winterthur Conservatory and earned a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from Columbia University, where she is currently a member of the Music Performance Faculty: https://mpp.music.columbia.edu/bios/maja-cerar