Maria Karakusheva proves that the key to success lies in committing fully to ones talents. She not only had the best score on the candidate student competition at the National Music Academy, she also became the first private student of Prof. Dr. Ilya Chernaev.

Maria annually gives concerts, playing solo works and with an orchestra. Her repertoire includes works by Rameau, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Ravel, Debussy, Saint-Saens, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and others.