Name	Catya Maré
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Place of Birth	Germany, Denmark
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Catya Mare has been playing the violin all her life (first concert as a soloist with an orchestra at the early age of 10 years old, teachers a.o. Prof. Zakhar Bron and Prof. Ana Chumachenco), playing solo concerts as a classical violinist in the USA, Israel, Scandinavia, Germany, at festivals (Schleswig Holstein Musikfestival, Santander Music Festival).....has received numerous scholarships (such as Stipendium der Muenchner Orchesterakademie, Stipendium der Rotarische Gesellschaft Hamburg, Konzerte Junger Kuenstler) has been holding the position of an alternating concertmaster with a big scandinavian symphony orchestra (Aarhus Symfoniorkester).... and then found out that there were other possibilities, this wasnt enough....
One day, about three years ago, when recovering from a bad influenza and starting to play the violin again, she became aware of the fact, that she was playing something she never had heard or seen before. ESSENTIAL IMPRO! Music arising from the moment! A quite unusual thing for a classical musician. Since then she does perform at Museums of Modern Art (National Galerie Berlin, Kunsthaus Zrich, ARoS (DK), Leopold Museum Wien, Miami Bass Museum of Art etc), at churches, shows and does collaborate with dancers and painters.
January 2006 she left the orchestra in order to devote herself to her own music.

In February 2006 Catya Mare started to compose songs, where her violin is the primary voice. Its a completely new style of playing the violin (or better: singing it...) a breathing and vibrating sound, which resembles more the female voice than a usual violin.....Her songs have been broadcasted at 90 international radio stations, receiving the most amazing reviews and are placed on TV shows / films....

In April 2007 Catya Maré won the Sonic Bids Award for Composition.
And in September her song "It Came True" was featured in Vic Alexander..s film "BUTTERFLIES IN THE WIND" at the Awa Gardner Film Festival in North Carolina.
Her music was also included into the TV show "Cruisin´with e-Rider".

When not performing concerts/shows Catya Maré composes / produces / records her own music. LIGHT LONGING, the critically acclaimed debut album, has been released in January 2007 and is available from her web store on myspace / every major digital download site. Also her second album, REMEMBERING THE DAY, is available now from her web store / international digital download sites.
Best Buy right now: http://www.soundloud.com/catyamare.aspx

You can find some of the fabulous reviews on REMEMBERING THE DAY in the reviews-section of this page.

She relocated to the USA in February 2008 and lives now in L.A..


November 2008: Catya was nominated for the Hollywood Music Award! The ceremony took place in the famous Kodak Theatre complex in Hollywood on November 20 and was televised to 200,000,000 households internationally.....

November 2008: Catya's music will be featured in the Austrian artist boki.b.´s new audio book. It's called 'KÖNIGIN' ("QUEEN" in English) narrated by Irina Scholz, a famous German voice actress. It will be released in winter 2008 by Spellprints Publishing.



February 2009:
Winner of the Billboard World Song Contest.

November 2009: She received an Honorable Mention at the "John Lennon Song Writing Contest", category "electronica".

November 19th: Catya Maré won the Hollywood Music in Media Award in the category "Ambient / New Age".
The award show took place in the famous Kodak Theater Complex, Hollywood, on November 19th. 2009 and will be televised in 18 countries, including the UK.

Her third album "Destination Love" will be released worldwide in February 2010.