Maria Wagner, Clarinetist

Maria Wagner has performed with the Portland Ballet Orchestra, the Maine State Ballet Orchestra, the Portland Chamber Music Festival Orchestra, the Medomak Conductor's Retreat Orchestra, the Longfellow Chorus Orchestra, and the Camden Holiday Pops Orchestra.

As a soloist she performed at the University of Southern Maine's presidential inauguration, as well as the Portland Conservatory of Music's Noonday Concerts, and the Portland Conservatory of Music's Contemporary Music Festivals.

Maria is a proponent of new music and has performed works by Maine composers Elliott Schwartz, and Dan Sonenberg, including Sonenberg's newest piece, Seven Jarring Dances for Clarinet and Steel-String Guitar; world-premiered in Portland March 2011, and to be premiered in New York City in June 2011. In June 2009 she won the Bay Chamber Competition's Summer Music Woodwind Solo Prize.

Maria graduated in 2010 with a Masters of Music in Performance and in 2008 with a Bachelors of Music in Performance from the University of Southern Maine, where she studied clarinet, bass clarinet, and e-flat clarinet with Dr. Thomas Parchman, principle clarinetist of the Portland Symphony Orchestra.