Maria Raspopova is an acclaimed and virtuosic solo recitalist and chamber musician. She is the former resident pianist & co artistic director of Sydney-based chamber group, Omega Ensemble, and has performed with acclaimed Australian and international celebrated musicians including Paul Meyer, Dimitri Ashkenazy and Emma Matthews.

Cut Common Magazine wrote “Raspopova’s bass notes were booming and the upper register of the piano sparkled with a shimmering clarity. Raspopova played with confidence and zest. She shone like gold…here is a pianist who could play anything”.

Maria has performed solo recitals at The Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House as well as appearing with Omega Ensemble in City Recital Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Government House, Sydney and on regional and international tours.

She has appeared as a guest artist at the Sanya International Festival of Arts (China), International Chamber Music Festival of the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music (China), Four Winds Festival (NSW), Sydney Chamber Music Festival, Newcastle Music Festival & Castlemaine State Festival (Victoria).

Though her commitment & passion for Australian modern classical music, Maria has recorded and premiered new Australian works by Mark Isaacs, Mark Grandison, George Palmer, Paul Stanhope, Andrew Ford, Moya Henderson, Gerard Brophy, Ben Hoadley, Andrew Anderson and most recently performed a world premiere of a new work by Nicole Brady.

Maria began learning the piano at a young age in her home country of Russia and was awarded a piano scholarship at the School of Arts in Khabarovsk. At seventeen she moved to Australia with her family and commenced studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with Gerard Willems and Philip Shovk and undertook further studies in New York with Philip Kawin (a Professor of Piano at the Manhattan School of Music).