photo by Alexander Gumz

SPILL

Duo with Tony Buck

https://www.facebook.com/spillberlin/

http://tony-buck.com/spill/

 20 year anniversary tour and new recording coming up!!

Spill Spill is the Berlin-based duo of Magda Mayas on piano and clavinet and Tony Buck on drums/percussion, formed in 2002. They have, to date released 4 albums as the duo, and have collaborated with John Butcher as the group Vellum on the UnSounds label release Plume as well as with American bassist Damon Smith on the CD Spill Plus (on the Nuscope label).

 photo by Peter Gannushkin

Duo with Christine Abdelnour, sax

Having released three CDs on unsound, Olofbright, and sofa records, Christine and Magda have been playing together since 2009.

http://soundcloud.com/magdamayas/abdelnour-mayas

photo by Peter Gannushkin

Filamental

Christine Abdelnour (sax)

Anthea Caddy (cello)

Angharad Davies (violin)

Rhodri Davies (harp)

Magda Mayas (piano)

Zeena Parkins (harp)

Aimée Theriot (cello)

Michael Thieke (clarinet)

Debut album Confluence out on relative pitch records!

"The ensemble is all powerhouse performers but, like a stream is one stream with one name below the confluence, though they may lend their distinctive voices, this is a singularly cohesive unit that subsumes individual style."

harmonicseries 

SPLITTER ORCHESTER BERLIN

http://www.berlinsplitter.org/

photo by Cristina Marx

Jane in Ether

Biliana Voutchkova - violin / voice

Miako Klein - recorders / Paetzold

Magda Mayas - piano

The Berlin trio, founded in 2019, is comprised of recorder player Miako Klein, pianist Magda Mayas and violinist Biliana Voutchkova. The three musicians are
internationally renowned for their live shows and numerous recorded works in the fields of improvisation, contemporary music, and performance. Originating from independent musical backgrounds, genres, and styles, the trio concentrates on developing real time compositions exploring the dynamic and tonal possibilities of
their respective instruments extending them unconventionally. The primary focus of the trio resides in the variety of timbres that arise from the combination of instruments as they overlap or coexist side by side, on patiently creating fragile textures which hover on the edge of audibility only to spontaneously shift direction creating a dynamic space for dense clusters of noise or the sonic suspension of minimal tonal soundscapes. The trio just released their debut album on the British label Confront Recordings, launched at a live concert at HKW Berlin on August 13th, 2021.

http://www.bilianavoutchkova.net/jane-in-ether.html

GREAT WAITRESS

Laura Altman, clarinet

Monica Brooks, accordion

Magda Mayas, piano

Great Waitress was formed in 2009, curated as a first time collaboration at the The NOW now Festival in the Blue Mountains, Australia. Since then the trio has released three albums, and performed many events in Australia and across Europe including the NOW now Festival 2011, Sound Out Festival (2011), Konfrontationen (Nickelsdorf Austria, 2011), Music Unlimited 26 (Wels Austria, 2012) and All Ears Festival (Oslo, Norway 2014).

Their new LP “Hue” (Another Dark Age), and two CD releases “Flock” (Creative Sources, 2014) and “Lucid” (Splitrec, 2011) are available to order online.

great-waitress.com

photo by Cristina Marx

Das B.

Mazen Kerbaj: trumpet
Magda Mayas: piano
Mike Majkowski: double-bass
Tony Buck: drums

Das B. was formed in Berlin in 2015, bringing together four musicians who have all developed highly personalised and refined approaches to their instruments. Having collaborated in various constellations before, as a quartet they create a canopy-like sound world, unfolding naturally and flowing organically.

"Atonal dance music for the brain.” - Holger Pauler / Jazzthetik
"the microscopically operating "B" Quartet… a piece of magic." - Guy Peters / Enola

https://soundcloud.com/asbccs267/b-quartet-live-at-exploratorium-berlin-excerpt

Isak Hedtjärn,cl,

Fredrik Rasten, gt

Torstein Larvik Larsen, tp

Magda Mayas, piano

https://soundcloud.com/fredrik-rasten/magdaisaktorsteinfredrik-excerpt

https://soundcloud.com/isakhedtjarn/hedtjarnmayaslavikrasten

Transmit

A band revolving around the writing, drumming and guitar of Tony Buck, with core line-up of Magda Mayas on organ and piano, James Welburn on bass, and Brendan Dougherty playing drums.

http://tony-buck.com/transmit/