Magda Mayas
Pianist
Composer Performer Researcher
photo by Cristina Marx
SOLO
Objects of interest, interpreting Tina Douglas' scores on Room40
https://magdamayas.bandcamp.com/album/objects-of-interest
solo LP "Terrain" on Gaffer records
https://magdamayas.bandcamp.com/
Solo "Heartland" on Another Timbre
http://www.anothertimbre.com/page51.html
photo by Alexander Gumz
SPILL
Duo with Tony Buck
https://www.facebook.com/spillberlin/
https://spillberlin.bandcamp.com/
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 5 albums as the duo, and have collaborated with John Butcher as the group Vellum on the UnSounds label release Plume ,with American bassist Damon Smith on the CD Spill Plus (on the Nuscope label) and with guitarist Dave Brown on their 2024 release Blue Plum Bloom on shame file music.
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)
albums Confluence and Ritual mechanics out on relative pitch records!
Murmur coming up in spring 2026 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
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
concerts and performances, alongside numerous recorded works in the fields of improvisation and contemporary music. 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. Jane in Ether's debut album Spoken/Unspoken and their second album Oneiric were released by the London based label Confront Recordings.
janeinether.com
photo by Tony Elieh
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
Their debut album Canopy was released in 2020.
Love is a joint release with Thanatosis Records (Stockholm) and the second record by the international quartet Das B.
Taking structural and dynamic cues from the classic John Coltrane record A Love Supreme, utilizing free improvisation in their own inimitable way, Das B totally reinvents the music and in the process meticulously subverts the notion of the tribute or songbook. Like the original source LP, this conceptual cover version is both thrilling and groundbreaking. Available on both CD and LP, in strictly limited editions.
https://mazenkerbaj.com/das-b/
photo by Tony Elieh
THULUTH
Magda Mayas piano,objects
Raed Yassin double bass,objects
Ute Wassermann voice,bird whistles and objects
Thuluth (arabic for one third) is an ensemble based in Berlin. All three musicians create rich hyper-sonorities by extending their instruments and the human voice with objects and the use of various microphones. The group’s sound is very committed to blending timbres and textures and sustaining them in an almost ritualistic performance while maintaining a dynamic and vivid approach.
They first played together at Iirtijal festival in Beirut 2016, however, the group members have collaborated in different contexts for many years prior to that.
Their debut One third of the sun was released in summer 2024 on Al Maslakh.
ERB HEMINGWAY MAYAS TRIO
Christoph Erb
tenor- and soprano saxophone
Magda Mayas
piano
Gerry Hemingway
drums, voice, controlled feedback
4 albums out on veto records
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 CD "back, before" ( SPltrec 2022), the LP “Hue” (Another Dark Age), and two CD releases “Flock” (Creative Sources, 2014) and “Lucid” (Splitrec, 2011) are available to order online
Past Projects
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.