Second Violins

Maria Okuneva

In the orchestra since 2023

She was born in 1996 in Omsk to a family of musicians. She graduated from the Academic Music College at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, completed the graduate programme and postgraduate studies at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (2021, 2023, the class of Professor M.I. Keselman, the class of baroque violin by Associate Professor M.N. Katarzhnova). She participated in master classes by Zakhar Bron, Boris Kushnir, and Reinhard Goebel.

She is the award winner and laureate of such competitions as the International Violin Competition “Rodolfo Lipizer Prize” (Italy, 2019, diploma), International Violin Competition for the 90th anniversary of Eduard Grach (Moscow, 2020, IV prize), and All-Russian Competition for Symphony Orchestra Artists (Moscow, 2022, III Prize).

From 2021 to 2022 she was an artist of the Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra.

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