Maria Marica was born in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, into a family of musicians, and began studying the violin at the age of seven. She studied with Vasile Socea and Nicușor Silaghi in her hometown and currently works with David Grimal (violin) and Krzysztof Chorzelski (chamber music) at the Hochschule für Musik Saar, Germany.

Winner of the George Enescu International Competition 2022 and the New Hope Grand Prix Cluj-Napoca Competition 2022, Maria has performed recitals and concerts in Romania, France, Italy, Germany and the United States.

She has performed in chamber music formats with renowned musicians such as Gary Hoffman, Diemut Poppen, Claire Désert, Marc Coppey, Philippe Cassard, David Grimal, Frans Helmerson, Boris Brovtsyn, Sergey Malov, Victor Julien-Laferrière and Solenne Païdassi, playing in festivals such as Les Dissonances Chamber Music Series, Les Rencontres Clés, Lumières d’Europe Academy and Chamber Music Festival.

She is a member of the Ensemble Les Dissonances and was also a member of the Romanian Youth Orchestra, with which she had the chance to perform in venues such as Musikverein Vienna, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Philharmonie Paris, Konzerthaus Berlin.

She has participated in master classes held by Leonidas Kavakos, Nora Chastain, Mihaela Martin, Rosanne Philippens and Gabriel Croitoru. In 2021 she attended the Kronberg Violin Course, where she studied with Kolja Blacher and Gerhard Schulz. From 2014-2016 and in 2019 she was part of the SoNoRo Festival’s Interferences program, where she worked with Diana Ketler, Thorsten Johanns and Alexander Sitkovetsky, and in 2015 she participated in the Young Performers Program of the Music@Menlo Festival in California, USA, where she studied with Clive Greensmith, Erin Keefe, Arnaud Sussmann, members of the Escher Quartet and the Dover Quartet.

Maria has been supported in the past by the Constance et Andrei Rhoe Foundation and MOL Romania, she is currently financially supported by a Deutschlandstipendium scholarship and plays an August Sébastien Philippe Bernardel violin (1845).