About Me
Maya Lončar was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where she started learning guitar with her father, Miroslav Lončar, at the age of six. She later began playing the violin at the age of 10. Surrounded by a community of musicians, her parents included, Maya continued to participate in numerous musical events, nationally and internationally including the Karlovac International Summer Guitar Festival in Croatia.
In 2007, Maya and her family moved to Loudoun County, Virginia, where she became a member of the Loudoun County Youth Guitar Orchestra, and the Potomac Falls High School Guitar Quartet. Through these ensembles she got to travel and perform as a soloist and in varying chamber ensembles in venues such as the Croatian Embassy, The National Institute of Health, and The John F. Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts. Maya has been invited to perform three times at the Kennedy Center, twice as a guitarist, and once as a violinist. She was also a member of the Loudoun Youth Symphony where she was first chair, second violins, and later moved up to first violins.
Later in her teenage years, Maya performed with her parents, Miroslav Lončar and Natasa Klasinc-Lončar, in the Lončar Trio, as well as in The NOVA Guitar Quartet, along with Adam Kossler. She is featured on CD recordings, including Aguado Guitar Concerts: Christmas Album, and A Fantastic Journey. In high school competitions, she won many top prizes, including First Prize at the Appalachian State Guitar Festival and Competition, Second Prize in the Beatty Music Scholarship Competition for Classical Guitar, and Second Prize at the Southern Guitar Festival and Competition.
Maya completed her Bachelor’s degree in guitar performance under the tutelage of renowned performer and pedagogue, Julian Gray, at the Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, VA. She was also a violinist in the Shenandoah Conservatory Symphony Orchestra (SCSO) and has taken private lessons with Akemi Takayama. She performed with SCSO at the Music Center at Strathmore for the world premiere of Wynton Marsalis's Blues Symphony. She continued to win top prizes in competitions such as the Charlottesville Classical Guitar Competition and the Appalachian State Guitar Guitar Festival, where she won first place in the undergraduate division her junior year, and then won fourth place in the graduate division her senior year. Maya became actively involved in numerous performances and festivals as a soloist and chamber musician, especially as a founding member of her trio, Triple Tango. They quickly gained attention and were invited to perform for the Mid-Maryland Guitar Festival and Competition.
Most recently, Maya has completed her Master of Music at the Eastman School of Music with Nicholas Goluses in Rochester, NY. She was also awarded a Performance Certificate in recognition for demonstrating outstanding performance ability. She worked at ESM as a graduate assistant for music theory and guitar lessons and quickly became involved in her new musical community of Rochester. Maya performs often for Eastman Performing Arts Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center and is also a guitar and violin instructor at Aria's School of Music and Arts in Greece. During her MM, she won second prize at the Charlottesville Classical Guitar Competition and Festival and was runner-up for the Eastman School of Music Concerto Competition where she performed Heitor Villa-Lobos's Concerto for Guitar and Small Orchestra. In October of 2019, Maya was featured on the radio with Rochester's WXXI - Classical 91.5 where she performed in a program with other fellow winners of the Performance Certificate at the Hochstein School of Music.
Maya is an active teacher and advocate of music in her community of Rochester, New York. She teaches at Aria's School of Music and Art and at the University of Rochester as a graduate assistant for both music theory and guitar. She is currently pursuing her Doctor of Music Arts in Performance and Literature at the Eastman School of Music with Nicholas Goluses. Even with the recent pandemic, Maya continues perform in any manner she can with livestream. She most recently performed in an online concert named Women of Guitar where female guitarists from around the world performed works written by female guitar composers for National Women's History Month. She has performed for Eastman Performing Arts Medicine, the Classical Guitar Society of Upstate New York, and the Rochester Classical Guitar Society.
In 2007, Maya and her family moved to Loudoun County, Virginia, where she became a member of the Loudoun County Youth Guitar Orchestra, and the Potomac Falls High School Guitar Quartet. Through these ensembles she got to travel and perform as a soloist and in varying chamber ensembles in venues such as the Croatian Embassy, The National Institute of Health, and The John F. Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts. Maya has been invited to perform three times at the Kennedy Center, twice as a guitarist, and once as a violinist. She was also a member of the Loudoun Youth Symphony where she was first chair, second violins, and later moved up to first violins.
Later in her teenage years, Maya performed with her parents, Miroslav Lončar and Natasa Klasinc-Lončar, in the Lončar Trio, as well as in The NOVA Guitar Quartet, along with Adam Kossler. She is featured on CD recordings, including Aguado Guitar Concerts: Christmas Album, and A Fantastic Journey. In high school competitions, she won many top prizes, including First Prize at the Appalachian State Guitar Festival and Competition, Second Prize in the Beatty Music Scholarship Competition for Classical Guitar, and Second Prize at the Southern Guitar Festival and Competition.
Maya completed her Bachelor’s degree in guitar performance under the tutelage of renowned performer and pedagogue, Julian Gray, at the Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, VA. She was also a violinist in the Shenandoah Conservatory Symphony Orchestra (SCSO) and has taken private lessons with Akemi Takayama. She performed with SCSO at the Music Center at Strathmore for the world premiere of Wynton Marsalis's Blues Symphony. She continued to win top prizes in competitions such as the Charlottesville Classical Guitar Competition and the Appalachian State Guitar Guitar Festival, where she won first place in the undergraduate division her junior year, and then won fourth place in the graduate division her senior year. Maya became actively involved in numerous performances and festivals as a soloist and chamber musician, especially as a founding member of her trio, Triple Tango. They quickly gained attention and were invited to perform for the Mid-Maryland Guitar Festival and Competition.
Most recently, Maya has completed her Master of Music at the Eastman School of Music with Nicholas Goluses in Rochester, NY. She was also awarded a Performance Certificate in recognition for demonstrating outstanding performance ability. She worked at ESM as a graduate assistant for music theory and guitar lessons and quickly became involved in her new musical community of Rochester. Maya performs often for Eastman Performing Arts Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center and is also a guitar and violin instructor at Aria's School of Music and Arts in Greece. During her MM, she won second prize at the Charlottesville Classical Guitar Competition and Festival and was runner-up for the Eastman School of Music Concerto Competition where she performed Heitor Villa-Lobos's Concerto for Guitar and Small Orchestra. In October of 2019, Maya was featured on the radio with Rochester's WXXI - Classical 91.5 where she performed in a program with other fellow winners of the Performance Certificate at the Hochstein School of Music.
Maya is an active teacher and advocate of music in her community of Rochester, New York. She teaches at Aria's School of Music and Art and at the University of Rochester as a graduate assistant for both music theory and guitar. She is currently pursuing her Doctor of Music Arts in Performance and Literature at the Eastman School of Music with Nicholas Goluses. Even with the recent pandemic, Maya continues perform in any manner she can with livestream. She most recently performed in an online concert named Women of Guitar where female guitarists from around the world performed works written by female guitar composers for National Women's History Month. She has performed for Eastman Performing Arts Medicine, the Classical Guitar Society of Upstate New York, and the Rochester Classical Guitar Society.
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