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Maria Fiore Mazzarini – violinist

London- based violinist Maria Fiore Mazzarini enjoys a versatile career as a musician. She is a regular guest with the UK’s leading chamber orchestras, including the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and London Mozart Players, as well as collaborating with symphonic orchestras including Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. Maria has been a member of Southbank Sinfonia 2014 and has performed in several music festivals in the UK and abroad, including the London Handel Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Würzburg Mozart Festival and Taormina Arte Festival. Maria has an interest in contemporary music, which led her to successfully take part with the London Sinfonietta Academy, Ensemble Modern Academy Klangspuren, and to be invited to perform at the Bang on a Can Festival 2016 in the USA. In 2020 she has attended a Music Management course at the European School of Economics in London.

What has creating art meant to you over the last year?

I used to draw as a teenager, yet I stopped for a while due to life commitments. During the pandemic, I have taken this passion back. For me, drawing became a moment of meditation, of catharsis and a way to channel my emotions during such difficult times.
It has allowed me as well to reflect on the similarities that drawing shares with music, especially as a string player. In fact, whether it is an image or a sound, the result depends on my right hand gesture, on the speed and pressure I apply while moving the bow or the pencil.