Maya Muratoglu started playing the piano when she was four years old. She studied with Gamze Kirtil at the Music Preparatory Junior School of the Music and Performing Arts Faculty at Bilkent University in Turkey from 2013 to 2017 on a full scholarship.
After moving to Austria in 2017, she attained acceptance to the International Summer Academy “Intensive Course for Highly Gifted Students” at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. Subsequently, she started her education at Musikgymnasium Wien and at the same time achieved admission to the “Enrichment Programme for Highly Gifted Students” at the mdw — University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She initially commenced her studies under Vladimir Kharin for two years, later continuing with Stephanie Timoschek-Gumpinger, with whom she completed the Piano Preparatory Course at mdw. In 2025, she was accepted into the BA in Piano Chamber Music at the Joseph Haydn Department of Chamber Music and Contemporary Music, mdw — University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She continues her studies with Christoph Johannes Eggner.
She participated in masterclasses in Turkey, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Japan, and the USA and therefore, had the opportunity to study with outstanding names such as Markus Schirmer, Mutsumi Saiki, Nataliya Chepurenko, Alma Sauer, Elias Meiri, Susanna Spaemann, Andreas Weber, Shaun Choo, Gülsin Onay, Patrick Lechner, Berthold Foeger, Roberto Prosseda, and Masahi Katayama.
Maya has received awards in Turkey, Italy, Belgium, and Austria, notably earning the “First Prize” at the “Federal Competition Prima la Musica 2021, 2023 and 2025” in chamber music for piano with Chiara Lamani as Duo Giocoso and also winning the Musica Juventutis audition at Wiener Konzerthaus, as well as gold prizes in solo piano music in 2022 and 2024 and the “Second Prize” at the Forte Music Academy piano competition in Belgium in 2021.
Maya’s engagement extends beyond classical piano, as she actively participates in various master classes on improvisation, composition, and jazz. In 2022, Maya was invited by the Centre for the Less Good Idea to Johannesburg to participate in an improvisation-based piece with singers and dancers for Season 9. Following this performance, she was granted a residency at the Cartier Foundation in Paris in 2024, where she collaborated and performed in six performances with South African and French singers, musicians and dancers.
Additionally, she sang in the Ankara State Opera Children’s Choir in Turkey and later in the Vienna KinderChor and MädchenChor in Austria.
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