Maria Winiarski is an internationally acclaimed violist, chamber musician and artistic director based in Berlin. As a chamber musician, Maria has performed in halls like Konzerthaus Berlin, Konserthuset Stockholm, the Tel-Aviv Museum, Bangalore International Center, Auditorio de Zaragoza and others. She is a regular guest in world-leading orchestras such as the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Norwegian Opera Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Swedish Orchestra.

Maria was born in Sweden in 1988 and grew up in Stockholm and Moscow. She studied violin and viola at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, the Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig as well as the chamber music institute Edsbergs Castle in Sweden. Some of her main teachers were Malin Broman, Mats Zetterqvist and Anna Lindal. Master classes in Spain, Israel and Poland complemented her education.

Maria has won several major prizes and scholarships, such as the Swedish Royal Academy of Music, Sandrews Foundation, Gemzéus Foundation, Freemasons in Sweden, and most recently scholarships from the Deutsche Musikrat, Akademie der Künste (Berlin) and Stiftung Zurückgeben.

Maria is the founder and Artistic Director of the Swedish branch of the international non-profit organization Musethica.