Maya Kazarina is one of the brightest and most talented young musicians. She was born on the 30th of April, 2005, in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Her first encounter with classical guitar occurred when attending the children’s music school in village Efimovskiy, Leningrad region, at the age of 6. She had been studying there for 6 months.
Living with her parents in Leningrad region, Maya used to go to Saint-Petersburg every month during 8 years to take guitar lessons, which demonstrates her strong commitment to classical music. In Saint Petersburg, she started taking guitar lessons with Lenconcert`s performer Oleg Maksimov. He paid a special attention to classical position of hands, proper body posture and finger placement. From 2016 to 2019 she had lessons with Egor Svezhentsev. Since 2019 her teacher is Dmitry Nilov.
Maya never stopped honing her guitar skills. She joined master classes given by famous Russian and German guitarists.