Maria Walzer, Piano,

was born as Maria Raszwetaeva in Moscow and was musically educated in Moscow, London and by Paul Badura-Skoda and Oleg Maisenberg in Vienna. She started giving recitals in the former USSR as a child and continued from 1992 on in Austria, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Italy and Turkey.

Paul Badura-Skoda characterized her as „...creative talent very rarely to be encountered “.