about dariya

      Dariya Maminova (*1988, Saint-Petersburg) is a composer, pianist, singer, performer and painter, currently residing in Cologne, Germany. Dariya works in the fields of experimental instrumental and electronic music, improvisation, musical theater, and pop music. She is a performer and composer at the MAMI NOVA project , co-founded with her sister Malika Maminova (percussion) in 2012.

      Dariya received the German Music Author Award in the category “Newcomers” in the contemporary music section for the year of 2024, was selected in 2022 by the Deutsche Musikrat Podium-Gegenwart for a portrait Album recording and in 2020 received the prestigious Bernd-Alois-Zimmerman prize of the city of Cologne. Dariya is currently the composer in residence at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden for the season of 2024/2025 

      Her great interest is in vocal music: her work catalog includes pieces for choir, pieces for ensemble and singing, chamber operas and songs. She is also interested in the synthesis of experimental contemporary music with both pop genres and music from other traditions and cultures. Since 2013, Dariya takes part as an instructor in the interdisciplinary educational project "Framewalk" by the Kabawil organisation in Düsseldorf. There she worked as a composer and performer together with artists from Ghana, Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Africa and Namibia. Dariya also implements and performs the idea of ​​synthesizing various genres in her own solo project "Dariya's Songs" .

     Dariya Maminova studied piano and composition at the Saint-Petersburg State Conservatory, composition both at the Detmold Academy of Music with Prof. Fabien Lévy and at the Academy of Music and Dance in Cologne with Prof. Johannes Schöllhorn, Prof. Brigitta Muntendorf and Prof. Michael Beil.