Maria Bazou

Born in Greece in 1999, Maria Bazou belongs to the new generation of European conductors. Her professional path unfolds between Athens, Krakow, and the international concert stage, where she has built a reputation as a musician of analytical clarity and emotional intensity.

She is currently in the second year of her Master’s degree in Orchestral Conducting at the Academy of Music in Krakow under the guidance of Professor Rafał Delekta. At the same time, she is a senior student at the Department of Music of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Maria Bazou possesses an impressive academic background. In 2025, she received her Diploma in Orchestral Conducting with distinction and First Prize in the class of Maestro Michalis Economou at the Athens Conservatoire. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Orchestral Conducting in Krakow (2024) and also holds diplomas in Composition (2024, First Prize), Choral Conducting (2019, First Prize), Piano Performance (2019), and Clarinet Performance (2021) from the Katerina Maska Conservatory. This multifaceted training has shaped a conducting style in which orchestral architecture meets an intimate understanding of both instrument and voice.

Among her competition distinctions are Second Prize, the Orchestra Prize, and a Special Prize (including a concert with the Greek Radio National Orchestra) at the 7th International Conducting Competition “Ionel Perlea,” as well as Second Prize and the Orchestra Prize at the 4th International Conducting Competition in memory of Adam Kopyciński in Wrocław. Her professional activity includes guest conducting engagements with the Pitești Philharmonic (Romania) and the Greek Radio Symphony Orchestra, as well as serving as Assistant Conductor with the Greek Radio Symphony Orchestra. Since 2019, she has been the conductor of the Filii Notas Choir, and since 2020, of the Filii Notas Orchestra at the Odysseas Dimitriadis Conservatory (Municipality of Kallithea, Athens).

As an assistant conductor, she has worked with Maestros Paweł Przytocki, Tomasz Tokarczyk, Rafał Delekta (Krakow), Michalis Economou (Athens), and Vincent Kozlovsky (Tarnów). Her work has brought her into collaboration with numerous orchestras across Europe and beyond, including the Silesian Philharmonic (Katowice), Orchestra Sinfonica a Filarmonicii Pitești, Orquesta Sinfónica de Entre Ríos (Argentina), Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, Rzeszów Philharmonic, Allegra Festival Symphony Orchestra, Greek Radio Symphony Orchestra, Athens State Orchestra, Sinfonietta Cracovia, and the Beethoven Academy Orchestra, among others.

Her artistic development has been enriched through masterclasses with leading figures of the contemporary conducting world, including Marin Alsop, Jorma Panula, Lawrence Foster, Loukas Karytinos, Luis Gorelik, Johannes Schlaefli, and others.

Maria Bazou speaks Greek, English, German, French, and Polish — a natural extension of her international presence.