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News Success Maarja Oserov appointed 1st violin of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland

Master student Maarja Oserov (class of Prof Daniel Gaede) has been successful in her audition for a permanent position (1st violin) with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland. She will start her trial period in Dublin at the beginning of the year. Congratulations!

Maarja Helen Oserov began her violin studies in Estonia at the age of 5.
She studied her bachelor's degree in Switzerland at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne with Prof. Pavel Vernikov and at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with Prof. Mare Teearu. She completed her master's degree at the Hochschule für Musik Saar in the violin class of David Grimal.

She is currently studying for a Master's degree in Contemporary music at the NUM Nuremberg with Prof Daniel Gaede.
Maarja has won several prizes at competitions, including 2nd prize at the London Classical
Music Competition in 2022, at the Estonian National Competition-Festival for
Strings and 1st prize at the Concorso Musicale Europeo Citta di Filadelfia "Paolo
Serrao" in 2014.

Maarja has taken part in many masterclasses, including with Leonidas Kavakos, Thomas Brandis, Pavel Berman, Silvia Marcovici, Petru Munteanu and Thomas Christian. She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in many European countries and is part of the Accademia dei Cameristi Bari.

In the years 2018 to 2020 Maarja played in Gidon Kremer's founded chamber orchestra Kremerata Baltica. Together with Kremerata Baltica she has had the opportunity to perform in many of the world's leading concert halls and record for Deutsche Grammophon.

Maarja was also part of the Saarland State Orchestra in the 2022/2023 season and performed with Les Dissonances, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Nuremberg State Theatre, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and others.