These concerts are the North Carolina Symphony debut for Maria Ioudenitch.

Violinist Maria Ioudenitch won first prizes at three international violin competitions in 2021—the Ysaÿe, Tibor Varga, and Joseph Joachim Competitions. In 2023, she won the Opus Klassik Award in the category “Chamber Music Recording of the Year” for her debut album, Songbird, with pianist Kenny Broberg.

Highlights of the 2025/26 season include an upcoming debut appearance with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop, as well as recent debut engagements with the Royal Danish Opera Orchestra, George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, and Stavanger Symphony Orchestra. She will tour Munich, Vienna, and Ljubljana with the Basel Symphony Orchestra and Markus Poschner. She has also accepted invitations from the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, the Nuremberg State Philharmonic, and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, and has returned to the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra to perform Dvořák’s Violin Concerto. She also performs extensively in the USA and Canada, including recent appearances this season with the symphony orchestras of Baltimore and Vancouver.

Ioudenitch will give recitals this season with pianist Roman Borisov, including one at London’s Wigmore Hall. She is a member of the chamber music collective ensemble132, with whom she will release an album of works by Stravinsky and Schumann in early 2026.

Ioudenitch grew up in Kansas City and began playing violin at the age of three. She studied at the International Center for Music in Kansas City, Curtis Institute of Music, and New England Conservatory before completing the Professional Studies Program at the Kronberg Academy.