Born on October 7, 2005, in Hanover, Maya Alexandra Kasprzak comes from a Polish-Japanese family of musicians. She received her first violin lessons at the age of 4, initially from Julita Smolen and later from her father, Wienczyslaw Kasprzak. From 2017 to 2022, she was a pre-college student with Prof. Latica Honda-Rosenberg at the Berlin University of the Arts. Since 2022, she has been studying at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig in the class of Prof. Tobias Feldmann, first in the pre-collage class and from October 2023 in the regular program.

Maya receives valuable artistic inspiration from various masterclasses, including those with Prof. Zakhar Bron, Prof. Mihaela Martin, Prof. Barnabás Kelemen, Clara-Jumi Kang, Prof. Guy Braunstein, and Prof. Łukasz Błaszczyk.

In addition to numerous 1st prizes at the national competition "Jugend Musiziert" in the categories of violin solo, duo with 2 string instruments (with her sister), and duo piano and string instrument, Maya won 1st prize at the Polish National Violin Competition and 1st prize at the "Mendelssohn Competition for Young Musicians" in Kronberg in 2013. In 2015, she received 3rd prize at the international "Arthur Grumiaux" competition in Belgium and a scholarship at the international "Andrea Postacchini" competition in Italy. In 2018, she recorded a CD in the rbb studio in Berlin as a result of a special prize at "Jugend Musiziert" and won 3rd prize at the international "Anton Rubinstein" competition, which included a one-year loan of a violin bow from the Knopf workshop (1880). In the same year, Maya won the Hindemith Prize of the German Music Council at the WESPE competition in Lübeck. In 2019, she won 1st prize at the "Wanda Wilkomirska" Violin Competition for Polish Music. In 2020, Maya won 1st prize at the Dussmann Competition in Berlin, 1st prize at the Japanese National Competition, and 2nd prize at the international "Rudolph Barshai" competition in St. Petersburg. At the 2nd "International Tibor Junior Violin Competition" in Sion (Switzerland), Maya received the special prize for the commissioned work "Catch Me" by Josef Bardanashvili in 2021. In December of the same year, she won 1st prize at the international "Jeno Hubay" Violin Competition in Miskolc, Hungary. In May 2022, after a video qualification round, she participated as the youngest contestant in the 8th "Sendai International Music Competition" and was also selected as a participant in the prestigious international Wieniawski Competition. In April 2023, Maya Kasprzak became the youngest semifinalist at the 8th International Henri Marteau Violin Competition. At the 14th International Carl Flesch Violin Competition, Maya was awarded 3rd prize as the youngest finalist and received the special prize of the "Festival Academy Budapest". At the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in August 2023, Maya received the sponsorship award from the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe and the award for best performance from the "Jugend Musiziert Niedersachsen" foundation, stemming from the Note for Note prize of the Sparda-Bank Hannover foundation. Additionally, she was recently awarded 3rd prize and 2 special prizes at the prestigious "Bartók World Competition" in Budapest in September 2023. She was also selected for the "2nd Stuttgart International Violin Competition" in February 2024 and reached the final round of the selection process for the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes", which will take place in September 2024.

Concerts with renowned musicians such as Aleksey Igudesman, Hyung-ki Joo, Daniel Hope, Zakhar Bron, and conductors such as Łukasz Borowicz, Prof. Matthias Foremny, and János Kovács in significant venues like the Berlin Philharmonic, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Berlinische Galerie, the National Forum of Music in Wrocław, the Historical City Hall Wuppertal, the "Krzysztof Penderecki European Center for Music" in Zakliczyn, and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest enrich her concert career.
Since February 2020, Maya Alexandra Kasprzak has been playing the violin "Joseph Gagliano, Naples ca. 1790", kindly provided to her from the Deutscher Musikinstrumentenfonds of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben in Hamburg, Germany.

First Round

• W. A. Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 KV 218
  • 1. Allegro (9')
• J. S. Bach: Sonata No. 2 A minor BWV 1003
  • 2. Fuga (4')
• N. Paganini: Caprices for solo violin op. 1, No. 2 (3')
• C. Franck: Sonata A major
  • 2. Allegro (9')

Second Round

• B. Bartók: Sonata for Solo Violin Sz. 117
  • 1. Tempo di ciaconna (10')
  • 2. Fuga (5')
• • P. R. Flys: Sonata for solo Violin (6')
  • 1. Lento capriccioso - Vivo
  • 2. Largo - Allegretto
• H. Wieniawski: Theme original varié op. 15 (12')
• I. Stravinsky: Divertimento from „Le Baiser de la Fée“ K049 for violin and Piano (20‘)

Piano: UdK accompanist

Finale

• S. Prokofjew: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major (21')
  • 1. Andantino
  • 2. Scherzo: Vivacissimo
  • 3. Moderato – Allegro moderato