1995 Maria born on March 15th in Moscow
in the artist-family: her great-grandfather
Iossif Spinel was the painter and film stage designer, one of creators of such masterpieces
of Russian cinema as Ivan the Terrible and Alexander Nevsky by Sergey Eisenstein;
her grandfather Michail Genin was
a well-known writer.
Since 1996 live in Munich.
At the age of 5 she started studying piano
under the teaching of her father, the composer
and pianist Vladimir Genin, and played
with an orchestra at the age of 12.
Since 2009 she is a young student
of the University Mozarteum Salzburg   

Maria is the 3rd Prize Winner
of IV International Piano Competition Wiesbaden -2009
and the 1st Prize Winner of:

2009  German National Competition “Jugend Musiziert” in category Duo Piano & Violin
(with Johannes Lechner)

2008  German National Competition “Jugend Musiziert” in category Piano Solo

2007  German National Competition
“Jugend Musiziert” in category
Piano Chamber Music
(with Express-Trio)

2006  VI International Competition
“Piano Podium for Youth” Munich

2006  Bayern Competition “Jugend Musiziert”
in category Piano Duo

2004  VII International Nikolai Rubinstein Competition Paris

2004  Karl Lang Piano Competition Munich

The most important performances:

2008 Prinzregents Theatre Munich ("OktoberMusikFest")
F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy:
Piano concerto No. 1 in G minor op. 25
Attacca Youth Orchestra under Allan Bergius
(under patronage of General music director
of the Bavarian State Opera Kent Nagano)  

2008 Art Museum Dortmund
J. S. Bach: Piano concerto No. 5 in F minor International Philharmonic Orchestra Germany
under Arkady Berin

2008 Bad Reichenhall
Piano concerto No.1 in C major by L. v. Beethoven
Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic Orchestra
under Thomas Mandl

2007  Michael Hall East Grinstead,
West Sussex, England 

2007  Community Center Milbertshofen Munich Piano concerto No.1 in C major by L. v. Beethoven
BMV-Orchestra under Daniela Wabnitz

 2006 'Sternstunden' (Highlights)
of Bavarian Broadcast in
Max-Joseph-Hall of Munich Residence

    2004 Nürnberg-Gala of Bavarian Broadcast
and Christmas concert of Bavarian TV

    2004 Paris: Concert of the Winner of
VII International Nikolai Rubinstein Competition

        2002, 2003, 2005
Festival ‘Toujours Mozart’, Salzburg Residence

Master Classes:
Prof. Peter Feuchtwanger, London
Prof. Willem Brons, Amsterdam
Prof. Georg Steinschaden, Salzburg
Pianist Ingo Dannhorn, Munich  
Pianist & Conductor Michail Arkadiev, Moscow