Marija Fedotova

Flute (Classical Music)

Artistic & Pedagogical Education

  • 1989–1996 Flute studies (chamber music, orchestral music, pedagogy, doctorate) at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg with Prof. Alexandra Vavilina-Mravinskaya
  • From 1991 (at the age of 19)
    Principal Flutist of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra Moscow under Vladimir Fedoseyev
  • Since 2012 Principal Flutist of the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra under Valery Gergiev
    Master classes with András Adorján, Yuri Dolzhikov, and Aurèle Nicolet

Teaching Experience

  • Since 2025Faculty member at the Friedrich Guda School of Music
  • Since 2012 Teaching at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, since 2022 as Lecturer
  • ISA (Summer School of the mdw Vienna)
    Bach School Vienna
  • Kaunas Music School (Lithuania)
  • Yokohama Music School (Japan)
  • Sirius (Russia)
  • Master classes in Lithuania, Lisbon, Japan, and Armenia

Concerts & Performances (selected)

  • Since 1997 Artistic collaboration with Gidon Kremer:
  • Solo concerts at festivals including Salzburg, Bregenz, Verbier, Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, Gstaad, Sion; worldwide tour and CD recording of “Maria de Buenos Aires” (Astor Piazzolla)
  • Further festivals:
    Menton, December Evenings, Europalia, Styriarte, Haydn Festival Schloss Petronell, Gmunden, Liszt Festival Raiding, Herbstgold Eisenstadt, Eckelshausen, among others
  • Solo performances under conductors Theodor Currentzis, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Justus Frantz, Saulius Sondeckis, Johannes Wildner, Franz Herzog, among others
  • Principal Flutist of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra Moscow under Vladimir Fedoseyev
  • Principal Flutist of the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra under Valery Gergiev
  • Guest flutist with the RIO (Rachmaninov International Orchestra) under Mikhail Pletnev and Kent Nagano; with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski; with musicAeterna under Theodor Currentzis; with the Vienna Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta; and with the Kremerata Baltica

Discography

  • Astor Piazzolla – “Maria de Buenos Aires”, Gidon Kremer, Horacio Ferrer and Kremerata Musica (Teldec)
  • “Occasion” – A. Piazzolla, K. Zgraja, J. Ibert, H. Berlioz (Classical Records)
  • Christopher Rouse / Claude Debussy / Leonard Bernstein (Relief)
  • “Privilège de Roi” – J. Telemann / Boismortier / Hotteterre, Ensemble Ars Consoni (Classical Records)
  • W. A. Mozart – Flute Quartets (Relief)
  • “In Flux” – CD featuring new flute quartets composed for MF by Austrian composers, Ensemble Reconsil (Spektral)
  • Three Advent CDs created for “Kunst im Turm”, Vienna
    (“7 Minutes before Christmas”, “Was It St. Nicholas?”, “12 Months of Advent”)
    with Michael Dangl (Gramola Austria)
  • Telemann – Fantasias (Gramola Austria)