MAIA SILBERSTEIN (violin), a native of Davis CA, received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Juilliard School in 1990 and her Master of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music in 1992. After performing for two years with the Sartory String Quartet, in residence at Kent State University, she traveled to Brussels with a fellowship from the Belgian American Educational Foundation to study the Baroque violin with Sigiswald Kuijken. She currently plays abroad with Les Arts Florissants, La Petite Bande and the Ricercar Consort, and in the U.S. with Apollo's Fire. She was a prizewinner in 1999 at the International Baroque competition at Stift Melk in Austria.