Maria Wagner is a performer and private clarinet instructor in the greater Portland, ME area.  She 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, the Camden Holiday Pops Orchestra, Maine Pro Musica, and more.  As a soloist and chamber artist, she performs at the Portland Conservatory of Music's Contemporary Music Festivals and Noonday Concerts, the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music's New Music Collective Concerts in New York City, as well as the Frontiers of Music concert series in Brunswick, ME.  Maria has a special love of new music, and has premiered works by many Maine composers, including Elliott Schwartz and Dan Sonenberg.
        Maria's newest project is Zapion, a Middle Eastern Ensemble that performs primarily Turkish and Arabic Classical and Folk compositions with elements of improvisation.  The trio premiered in June 2012.

        In 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.  Maria is currently continuing her study of the clarinet with clarinetist Jo-Ann Sternberg of NYC. 

    In 2011, Maria began working for the Portland Chamber Music Festival with Artistic Director Jennifer Elowitch.    Please visit the website, www.pcmf.org, for info about the upcoming Festival, August 8 - 17, 2013.

Maria is blessed with many private students.  For more about her teaching studio, please visit the Lessons page.