Maya Badian is a Romanian-born Canadian composer, musicologist, and professor
Education
Badian began to compose at five years of age, and later attended the Bucharest National University of Music in Bucharest, where she studied with Tiberiu Olah, Aurel Stroe, Zeno Vancea and Tudor Ciortea, graduating with a Master’s degree in Composition in 1968.
Career
She continued her studies in orchestral conducting in Weimar, Germany during 1972. She was music director at the Radiophonic Theatre Department of the Romanian Broadcasting Corporation from 1968 to 1972 and a music professor at the George Enescu School of Music in Bucharest between 1973 and 1985. Emigrating with her family to Canada in 1987, she settled in Montreal.
In 1990 she took Canadian citizenship, and moved to Ottawa in 1995.
In 1992, after two years study under André Prévost, she obtained a Doctorate in Music, Composition Diploma with the highest distinction at the University of Montréal. Maya Badian has composed works for orchestra.
Foreign instrumental and vocal ensembles. Foreign choir; music for instrumental theatre and for multimedia.
She has over 120 published compositions, as well as musicology and pedagogy works in the Library and Archives Canada, the American Library of Congress, the International Library for Contemporary Music in Paris, and other libraries worldwide.
Membership
Since 1970, Badian has been a member of the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists. Badian is now a professor of theoretical studies, examiner, proof reader, and exam maker for the Canadian Royal Conservatory of Music Examinations and also a member of the Canadian League of Composers, and an Associate member with the Canadian Music Centre.