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Maya Gunji received her BM and MM from the Juilliard School, and has performed with many of New York’s leading ensembles, including the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the New York City Ballet Orchestra and the New York City Opera Orchestra. Maya has also performed as a guest artist with the Berlin Philharmonic, St Petersburg Philharmonic, the Mariisnky Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the St Paul Chamber Orchestra. She is a member of the American Ballet Theater Orchestra, The Orchestra of St Luke’s, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, The Philharmonia Orchestra of New York and was the timpanist for the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, from 1992-2006. She has performed on Broadway in productions of The Three Penny Opera, The Man of La Mancha, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, and Mary Poppins. Maya Gunji endorses Evans Drumheads.