A native of Muncie Indiana, Maya Kilburn is 16 years old and currently studies with Mimi Zweig at the Indiana University Jacobs School String Academy. She began playing violin at age 4 working first with Anna Vayman and continuing with Chin Mi Kim. Maya has won numerous competitions at the regional and national level, recently winning the Indianapolis Symphony’s Maurer Young Artist Competition as well as the Louisville Orchestra’s Young Artist Competition. As a result, she has performed more than a dozen times as concerto soloist with many orchestras such as the Indianapolis Symphony, Southeast Missouri Symphony, Louisville Symphony, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Carmel Symphony, New World Youth Symphony, Muncie Symphony, and the Universidad Nationale Orchestra in San Jose, Costa Rica. She has been active performing and touring with the IU String Academy Violin Virtuosi. Highlights include two 3-week concert tours throughout Argentina and Chile, various performances at Circle Theatre in Indianapolis and the Indiana Landmarks Center, and opportunities to perform with such artists as David Chan, Atar Arad and Joseph Swenson. She has also performed in master class and lessons for renowned violinists such as Pamela Frank, Vadim Gluzman, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Jinjoo Cho, Henryk Kowalski, Mauricio Fuks, Richard Lin, and Sarah Kapustin. Maya has performed on many recitals in the Midwestern US, Japan, and Central America, and has been featured on both radio and television broadcasts. In the spring of both 2017 and 2018, she was a featured guest at the Universidad National de Costa Rica and the La Castella Arts School in San Jose, Costa Rica, where she performed recitals and taught masterclasses. Recent activities include performing for the 2nd time as a concerto soloist with both the Muncie Symphony and New World Youth Symphony, as well as performing across the US, Mexico, and Costa Rica. Maya attends Yorktown High School and enjoys hanging out with friends, reading, cooking, and spending time with her dogs Cocoa and Sophia.