Dr. Maia White

Biography

Maia Jasper White is a prominent chamber musician, teacher, orchestral studio musician, and musical entrepreneur. She is the Executive Director and Co-Artistic Director of Salastina, a Pasadena-based chamber music series that has won San Francisco Classical Voice's Audience Choice Awards for Best Chamber Ensemble. Maia has been a member of the violin section of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony for ten years, where she served as Concertmaster of the Crested Butte Music Festival Orchestra. Her orchestral work includes scoring motion pictures and television, contributing to over a hundred film scores for notable projects such as Frozen, Encanto, Wish, Avatar: Way of Water, Moana 2, and Star Wars: Episodes VII, VIII, and IX. As a dedicated teacher, she has served on the faculties of the Colburn School of Performing Arts, Chapman University, and the Luzerne Music Center. Maia has also been the Director of Chamber Music at Caltech since 2016. She studied English Musicology at Yale and continued her violin studies at the University of Southern California and the Paris Conservatory. Furthermore, she honed her administrative skills through the League of American Orchestras' Essentials Orchestra Management program and the Center for Nonprofit Management's Certificate Program. Her writing on music has been published in New Music Box, Care Listen, the Huffington Post, and Strings Magazine, and she is a guest speaker at the Women in Classical Music Symposium and various classical music-industry podcasts.

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