Maria Kotrotsou lives and works in Paris. She writes orchestral, neoclassical, electronic, new age music, film scoring and songs.
Fascinated with music from a very early age, she decides to take piano lessons when she is 6 years old. Four years later she takes part in the piano competition of the London Royal Academy of Music, where she wins the first prize with distinction. In 2005 she obtains her piano degree with honours from the National Conservatory of Athens and then she completes her Law studies.
In 2005, she attended the seminar for piano given by the professors of Bowling Green university of USA: M. Mogilevsky, S. Smolina and of Ionion university: E. Mouzala, L. Vasiliadis.
Soon after she moves to Paris to continue higher studies in classical music at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, whilst also studying music composition and electronic music. She took Masterclass with Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman and Ibrahim Maalouf (music scoring for films), with Timbaland (production and beatmaking), with Usher (the art of performance), with Armin Van Buuren (dance music) and with Deadmau5 (electronic music production).
In live concerts she performs her compositions on keyboard, with electronic melodies and rhythms from downtempo to dance music or she performs her compositions on piano in a neoclassical version. All her concerts to date were sold out with a public of all ages that remains enchanted by her astonishing dexterity and the feelings generated by the musicality of her works. She gives concerts in Europe and in USA.
Se released 6 albums and 4 singles. As composer of film scores, she has written music for cinema and theater in France, in China and for performances in Usa.
In 2024 she composed « Kafka’s Dream » dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the death of the writer Franz Kafka, a joint project of the union of filmmakers and writers of Kalamata in Greece with the cooperation of the cultural center of Prague.
Three of her musical pieces : "Pensées", "Nostalgia" and "Don't Stop Dreaming" got to the Neoclassical Collection 2018, 2020 and 2021, between Philipp Glass, Ludovico Einaudi, Phil Collins, etc. as well as the "Nous Deux" that got to the Instrumental Classical Collection 2018.
In 2020, she has been nominated for best original score (music) and sound design of the serial "Seltsam" (season 2) to the festival Die Seriale in Germany.
In 2017, the Festival of Cinema in Paris has invited her as member of the jury.
She has been interviewed by journalists for the television, the radio, the newspapers and magazines in France, in UK, in USA, in Mexico, in Italy, in Brazil, in Poland, in India and in Greece, and by CNN.
