Real name: Maya Youssef

Effective period / Period of releases: 2017

"What makes an instrumentalist a virtuoso? I’d say it was a mystical symbiosis that takes
place before your very ears and eyes, so that, for you, they define their instrument and
their instrument defines them. Which is why audiences discover that Maya is both
possessed by the Kanun and at the same time to personifiesy it. Every time I hear her
play it's a revelation...she seems to reach another level of dextrous skill, to make the
room resound with yet more passionate and beautiful music, to draw you further into
her flamboyant and intricate maquam labyrinth. And she combines her extraordinary
musical gifts with a generosity of outlook, warmth, humour and optimism which has
legendarily accompanied virtuosos such as Ravi Shankar, Yehudi Menhuin or Meredith
Monk through their lives." - Max Reinhardt, BBC