Maria Staump is a composer, educator, and multi-instrumentalist from
San Diego, Ca. She is a strong believer in the importance of music
education and has been teaching regularly for the past six years. Maria
is the Director of Education for Staump Productions LLC Music School,
and she currently teaches over sixty students every month. Maria is also
the founder and director of the East County Youth Guitar Ensemble. She
is a San Diego Parks and Recreation Instructor, and works with the music
programs at many of the public schools in San Diego. Maria has been
invited as a special guest to NAMM's Music Education Days, and is a
member of MTNA, Music Teachers National Association, and MENC, the
National Association for Music Education.
In February of 2008, Maria released her first instrumental album
"Mi Vida Bonita,". In addition to her first album, she has digitally
released three singles, "Just a Dreamer," "High," and "Dia Feliz." She
has received press from The San Diego Downtown Newspaper, and has been
featured by Express Jet Magazine as "A modern composer with traditional
tools" Maria Staump is a highly trained multi-instrumentalist, vocalist,
and teacher. Listening to her beautiful music, she's obviously found a
passion for tradition with a bright percussive sound of the flamenco
guitar." - J.K., Express Lane Magazine (Express Jet Air Line) She was
recently one of the 1000 picked from over 400,000 independent artists on
Reverbnation.com to participate in a Microsoft giveaway. Her single,
"Mi Vida Bonita," was downloaded over 1200 times during the 3 month
period. Maria also wrote a jingle that was selected by Microsoft, and
her video was featured on their Youtube's front page, "Independent
artist Maria Staump quite literally sings the praises of the
Windows-sponsored free music giveaway. Right now you can go to the
Windows MySpace page and download 1000 songs from rap to Reggae and pop
to punk all for free including Staump's most recent single, "Mi Vida
Bonita."- Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corporation.
Maria received her degree in music from Grossmont College. She
has studied with pianist Steve Baker, vocalist and conductor Dr. Randall
Tweed, and guitarists George Svoboda, and Fred Benedetti. Maria
performs solo, and with the Maria Staump Band throughout Southern
California. She performs every Thursday evening at Carlos Santana's
Maria Maria La Cantina in San Diego. She has arranged music for various
community organizations, and has had several compositions performed by
the Grossmont College Guitar Ensemble. Maria is currently working on her
second album due to come out in early 2011.
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