Named a “one-woman dynamo” by The Boston Globe, Maria Finkelmeier is a percussionist, educator, and arts entrepreneur based in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the founder and director of Kadence Arts, a Boston-based nonprofit organization, and the cofounder of Masary Studios, a sound, light, and performance collective.

In addition to her work as a performer and arts leader, Finkelmeier teaches at Northeastern University and previously served as program manager for the Entrepreneurial Musicianship Department at the New England Conservatory. Earlier in her career, she spent three years in Northern Sweden as an artist-in-residence at the Piteå Institution for Music and Media.

Finkelmeier has brought contemporary percussion to concert halls across the United States and Europe and to unexpected spaces such as Fenway Park, the Tree Hotel in Sweden, the Boston Center for the Arts’ historic Cyclorama, and the Frost Ice Bar for ArtWeek. Her solo project, #improvadayLIVE, blends video, classical marimba, social media, and electronics into a multisensory experience. She is a Yamaha Performing Artist and endorses Grover Pro Percussion, Vic Firth, and Remo.