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Magda Mayas

Born: 1979

Magda Mayas, born 1979, is a pianist and composer performer living in Berlin. Over the past 20 years she developed a vocabulary utilizing both the inside as well as the exterior parts of the piano, using amplification, preparations and objects that become extensions of the instrument itself. Mayas has developed a set of techniques that draw on the history of prepared and inside piano vocabulary, but are highly individualized and expand the language for internal piano music making.

She holds a PhD in Music Performance and Interpretation from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Since 2019, she is the program coordinator and teaches improvisation at Luzern University of applied Sciences and Arts.

Francesca Gemmo, Magda Mayas: Tides In The Mirror

by Neri Pollastri
April 20, 2026

Tides in the Mirror documenta lo splendido incontro in studio di due pianiste, l'italiana Francesca Gemmo e la tedesca Magda Mayas, entrambe dedite all'improvvisazione ancorché partendo da esperienze e punti di vista diversi. Gemmo, formazione classica, ha esplorato molti ambiti dell'improvvisazione contemporanea, anche assieme al compagno d'arte e di vita Sergio Armaroli, arrivando recentemente ...

Tides In The Mirror

By Francesca Gemmo

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2025
Track listing: Persuasion Mood; Between The Folds; Gravity And Glow; Hieratic Links; Strummed Song; Wires And Wales; Returning; The Sound Of Falling Sideways.

Phyla music

By Christoph Erb

Label: Veto Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Phyla music; Phyla music (Excerpt).

Erb / Mayas / Hemingway: Phyla music

by Glenn Astarita
December 12, 2025

The improvisational music captured on Phyla Music, a live recording featuring Christoph Erb (reeds), Magda Mayas (clavinet), and Gerry Hemingway (percussion), documents an evening of profound sonic exploration at The Wurm Club club in Basel. This specific venue, known for its conducive acoustic environment, appears to have inspired the ensemble to reach a heightened ...

Klein / Rosaly / Warelis: Tendresse

by John Sharpe
February 8, 2025

Tendresse unites three talented improvisers residing in the cosmopolitan melting pot of Amsterdam in a low key frenzy of deep listening and inspired response. German reedman Tobias Klein has been an inhabitant in the Dutch city for over thirty years, while Polish pianist Marta Warelis and American drummer Frank Rosaly are more recent transplants. However, whatever ...

AIR Vol. 2

By Urs Leimgruber

Label: Creative Works Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: #1; #2 ; #3 ; #4 ; #5 ; #6 ; #7 ; #1 ; #2 ; #3 ; #4 ; #5 ; #6 ; #1 ; #2 ; #3 ; #4 ; #5.

Urs Leimgruber: AIR Vol. 2

by John Eyles
September 26, 2024

Released a year after the four-disc album AIR Vol. 1 (Creative Works Records, 2023) comes the three-disc AIR Vol. 2, which has a similar layout to the earlier release. Each disc of the four-disc album featured Swiss saxophonist Urs Leimgruber in a duo with a different player: American drummer Gerry Hemingway, Swiss pianist Hans Peter Pfammatter, ...

Moers Festival Interviews: Zeena Parkins

by Martin Longley
May 9, 2024

The harpist Zeena Parkins is one of the key players on the New York City improvising and composing fronts, and indeed on the global scene generally. Most of her upcoming gigs are happening around Europe, although her 2024 datesheet is relatively sparse compared to her 2025 plans. She probably became known to most folks when playing ...

Glints

By John Butcher

Label: Ni-Vu-Ni-Connu
Released: 2022
Track listing: glints a; glints b.