Maya Wichert was born in Germany in 2006. She has been taking violin lessons since she was four and regular piano lessons since she was seven. She has been studying at the Munich University of Music and Theater since 2015 with Professor Sonja Korkeala and receives coaching from Professor Ana Chumachenco. 

Maya has attended master classes with Julia Fischer, Christoph Poppen, Ingolf Turban, Miriam Fried and Pavel Vernikov. She is also a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein, where she takes part in the intensive weeks and activities of the academy. 

Since she was five, Maya has won several 1st prizes at “Jugend Musiziert”. In 2013 she won the 1st prize at the “International Florian Meierott Competition” at Erlach Castle. In 2015 she won the 1st prize at the “Carl Bechstein Competition” in Berlin for the piano and violin duo. In 2016 she won the 1st prize at the “Anton Rubinstein International Competition for Young Violinists” in Düsseldorf. At the “Concorso Internazionale Il piccolo violino magico” 2016 in San Vito al Tagliamento, Italy, where she performed with the Central Europe Orchestra, Maya received the 1st prize as well as the audience prize. As part of the Oberstdorf Music Summer 2016, she was the youngest of about 100 participants to win the “Dr. Konstanze Koepff-Röhrs sponsorship award”. At the 9th “International Louis Spohr Competition for Young Violinists” in Weimar in October 2019, she won the 1st prize in Category I (born 2006 and younger). In addition, she received the special prize for the best interpretation of a violin concert from the third round, donated by the New Liszt Foundation. 

Maya has performed as a soloist with various orchestras in Germany, Italy and Slovenia. In April 2018 she was the youngest artist to take part in the concert series International Festival of Young Masters, where she played with the Southwest German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim in Ravensburg, Lindau, Memmingen and Augsburg. In 2018 and 2019 she also appeared as a soloist with the Philharmonie Baden-Baden, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Ulm, the North German Philharmonic Rostock, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Jena Philharmonic. 

Maya has been a very active chamber musician for years and has also gained extensive orchestral experience in the Puchheim Youth Chamber Orchestra (PJKO) under the direction of Peter Michielsen. 

As a winner of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, Maya plays a violin made by the Neapolitan master Nicolo Gagliano from the 18th century.