Maria Jeleztcheva, Executive Director, Switzerland.

Maria Jeleztcheva Wildhaber holds a Bachelor of Music in performance from The University of Arizona, Master of Music from Yale University and is graduating this fall with a Doctor of Musical Arts in bassoon from State University of New York at Stony Brook. She has collaborated with the Macao Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia, Philharmonia of Russia, UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in Switzerland. She has worked with world famous conductors including Pierre Boulez, James Levine, Michael Tilson Thomas, Christoph von Dohnanyi and Gerard Schwartz. She recorded her first solo CD in 2008, featuring Bulgarian Folk Songs and Dances that she had arranged for Solo Bassoon and Piano. Her performances have been broadcasted on several TV stations in the US, Europe, South America and Asia as well as on New York’s WQXR, Washington’s WGMS and Hong Kong’s RTHK radio stations. She is currently on the chamber music faculty at 92nd Street Y School of Music, Bergen Academy of Music and Art and Kinhaven Summer Music School.

She has worked with world famous conductors including Pierre Boulez, James Levine, Michael Tilson Thomas, Christoph von Dohnanyi and Gerard Schwartz. She recorded her first solo CD in 2008, featuring Bulgarian Folk Songs and Dances that she had arranged for Solo Bassoon and Piano. Her performances have been broadcasted on several TV stations in the US, Europe, South America and Asia as well as on New York’s WQXR, Washington’s WGMS and Hong Kong’s RTHK radio stations. She is currently on the chamber music faculty at 92nd Street Y School of Music, Bergen Academy of Music and Art and Kinhaven Summer Music School.