Maya Oganyan was born in Moscow in 2005 and has been living and studying in Venice since 2011. She started taking piano lessons at the age of 4 and studies with Alexander Maykapar and in 2015 she entered the “Benedetto Marcello” Conservatory in Venice, studying with Massimo Somenzi, Muriel Chemin and Olaf Laneri.

Maya won several international competitions, including the "Schumann Prize" of the "Rospigliosi Competition", "Vienna Grand Prize Virtuoso Competition", "Orbetello Piano Competition", "La Palma D'Oro”. She has performed in many Italian and foreign halls and performed music by Valentin Silvestrov in his presence at Cremona Musica in 2022. She debuted with Armenia Philharmonc Orchestra in 2021, performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto n. 3, conducted by M° Eduard Topchjan, and Mozart’s Piano Concerto K 488 with the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra in the Cappella Paolina of Palazzo del Quirinale, in the presence of the President of Italy, Sergio Mattarella, and the President of the Republic of Armenia, Armen Sarkissian.

She currently attends the Accademia Pianistica di Imola for the chamber music course with Marco Zuccarini and continues her piano studies under the guidance of Roberto Prosseda and Lilya Zilberstein.