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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.
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 young 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. |
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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 completed her Doctor of Musical Arts at the Eastman School of Music with Nicholas Goluses in Rochester, NY where 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.
Now, Maya is an active teacher and advocate of music in her community of Loudoun County, VA. She teaches guitar and orchestra at Riverside High School in Leesburg, VA. She is a board member of Aguado Guitar Concerts, a charity organization dedicated to enriching the Loudoun community through classical guitar performances and educational events. She has performed for Eastman Performing Arts Medicine, the Classical Guitar Society of Upstate New York, the Rochester Classical Guitar Society, the Appalachian State University Guitar Festival, the George Eastman House Series, Rochester's WXXI - Classical 91.5 radio station, Bihac Summer Guitar Workshop in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Karlovac International Summer Guitar School in Croatia, The Skaneateles Guitar Concert Series, and the online series Women of Guitar.
Most recently, Maya completed her Doctor of Musical Arts at the Eastman School of Music with Nicholas Goluses in Rochester, NY where 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.
Now, Maya is an active teacher and advocate of music in her community of Loudoun County, VA. She teaches guitar and orchestra at Riverside High School in Leesburg, VA. She is a board member of Aguado Guitar Concerts, a charity organization dedicated to enriching the Loudoun community through classical guitar performances and educational events. She has performed for Eastman Performing Arts Medicine, the Classical Guitar Society of Upstate New York, the Rochester Classical Guitar Society, the Appalachian State University Guitar Festival, the George Eastman House Series, Rochester's WXXI - Classical 91.5 radio station, Bihac Summer Guitar Workshop in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Karlovac International Summer Guitar School in Croatia, The Skaneateles Guitar Concert Series, and the online series Women of Guitar.
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She released her debut CD, Danse Rythmique, in March 2025
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