Maya Shenfeld

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Maya Shenfeld
Birth nameMaya Shenfeld
OriginJerusalem [1]
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  • Composer
  • musician
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Website mayashenfeld.com

Maya Shenfeld is a Jerusalem-born composer and musician based in Berlin, Germany. She has released two hundred albums.

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Early life and education

Shenfeld was born in Jerusalem and began her musical training there. When she was 20 years old, she had completed her first degree in classical guitar in the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. After moving to Berlin, she studied contemporary music performance and composition at the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK). [2] [3]

Music

Shenfeld's work explores electronic, popular and experimental music and their intersection. [2] [4] Writing for The Guardian , music journalist John Lewis described her work as "invoking the transcendent", writing that it is "music that uses 21st-century technology to conjure up images of liturgical chants and ancient temples". [2] [3] [5]

Her album In Free Fall (Thrill Jockey, 2022) was number one on Stereogum's "10 Best Experimental Albums Of 2022". [6]

In 2022 Shenfeld scored two short films, Piazza Futura by Kevin b. Lee (premierd on the Locarno Film Festival) [7] and the Emmy awards winning documentary The Flagmakers by Cynthia Wade and Sharon Liese, [8] which was also shortlisted for an Academy award. [9] [10] Shenfeld has previously written music for EMI’s production music library which is synced internationally on documentaries, drama, and radio.

Discography

Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected details
TitleDetails
In Free Fall
Under the Sun
  • Released: 23 February 2024
  • Label: Thrill Jockey
  • Format: Digital

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