Maya Dunietz

Maya Dunietz was born in 1981 in Tel Aviv

Maya Dunietz was born in Tel Aviv on April 16, 1981, and grew up in Savyon. She is one of 3 daughters of Esther and Yaakov Dunietz, a computing entrepreneur. Her sisters Dana and Keren Dunietz are also singers.

She began piano at a young age and studied flute, music theory and composition with private teachers. She sang in the Bat Kol youth choir and studied jazz at the Thelma Yellin School of the Arts, graduating in 1998. In 1999 she enrolled at The New School in New York, and in 2005 she studied composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

As a teenager she acted in films and hosted children's television and radio shows. In New York she performed with artists such as John Zorn and Daniel Zamir and toured the United States with writer Yehonatan Geffen. From 2002 she played with the Women's Voice group in Africa, Europe and the United States and joined the band Habiluim.

She composed the music for the stage piece Garinim, directed by Ariel Efraim Ashbel, which won awards at the 2003 Acco Festival. In 2013 she led a tribute project to Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou for the Jerusalem Season of Culture, including the first printed edition of her piano works. Her works have been shown at venues such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris.