Mayah Kadish
Violinist Mayah Kadish plays music from across a broad spectrum – historically informed performance, avant-garde experimental, baroque, contemporary classical, folk, pop, music theatre… She is a keen collaborator in creating new musical works and also composes. Her compositions bring together these diverse sound worlds but live and breathe in a creaky contemporary space.
Mayah has performed as soloist in halls such as the Barbican (UK), Lisbon’s Centro Culturel de Belem (PT), Cologne Philharmonie (DE), Lucerne Opera (CH), HKW Berlin (DE), Amsterdam Muziekgebouw (NL), Volksbuehne Berlin (DE), Sadler’s Wells (UK), TSB arena Wellington (NZ), Haarlem Philharmonie (NL) and Wiesbaden State Theatre (DE) amongst others.
Mayah is founder of baroque trio sonata ensemble La Vaghezza, principle violinist of contemporary ensembles s t a r g a z e (Berlin) directed by André de Ridder, and Ensemble x.y (London). She works extensively with Teac Damsa dance company as violinist and Musical Director. As concertmaster and sometimes soloist she has worked with the European Union Baroque Orchestra, La Tempête, Orchestra Controcorrente, Oxford Baroque, among others.
Born in Rome, Mayah grew up in London. At university she studied philosophy at King’s College London and worked for several years as a translator from French and Italian to English. She obtained her Master’s degree as a violinist from the Royal Academy of Music London, and studied the baroque violin with Enrico Onofri in Sicily.