Vice President & Treasurer
Maria Majno is a musician and cultural manager, graduate of both Milan’s Conservatoire and its State University.
During her extensive tenure as the artistic and executive director of the Società del Quartetto di Milano, Maria Majno created a series of thematically based seasons and realised over a 10-years span the complete performance of Bach’s sacred and secular Cantatas, recipient of the “Abbiati” award in 2000.
Since 2006, she has been chair of the European Mozart Ways, a network of the 10 countries visited by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as first full-fledged European music traveller. The EMW are the only Cultural Itinerary of the Council of Europe dedicated to a musician.
Heeding the call of Claudio Abbado, Maria Majno initiated in 2011 SONG - Sistema in Lombardia which spearheads Sistema approaches within Italy and has been instrumental in helping to initiate the global presence of El Sistema as leading example in social and cultural inclusion.
Besides, Maria Majno is vice president of the Sistema Europe association, which also implemented the international encounters of SEYO – Sistema Europe Youth Orchestra, among which the 2015 edition in Milan during EXPO and the residency of El Sistema Venezuela at La Scala.
She is co-founder of SIMM [The Social Impact of Making Music] platform as well as member of the Advisory Board of the Démos project at the Philharmonie de Paris, and co-chairs the Scientific Committee of the CEM - Centre Européen de Musique. She also sits on the Board of Directors of Marlboro Music.
As vice president of the Mariani Foundation for Paediatric Neurology, she is in charge of activities regarding the relationship between the neurosciences and music, including the global “Neuromusic” conferences with the related publications within the “Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences”.
She is on the faculty for music management and economics at the Università Cattolica in Milan and is often invited to contribute her expertise to articles, lectures and conferences on the individual and social impact of music education and practise.
Information valid as of autumn 2023.