Maya Lai is currently in her second year at The Cleveland Institute of Music, pursuing her Bachelor's Degree in Harp Performance as a student of Yolanda Kondonassis. She has performed with numerous orchestras such as The Phoenix Symphony, The Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra, and The Las Vegas Young Artists Orchestra. She was soloist with the Henderson (NV) Symphony Orchestra after winning First Place in the 2022 Henderson Concerto Competition, and was a featured composer with the American Harp Society’s “Young Composers Project” in 2019. Committed to engaging with her community and supporting worthy causes, she presented a solo benefit concert in 2023 that raised over $4000 for the Children’s Advocacy Center Foundation. Maya Lai began studying the harp at age nine in Phoenix, Arizona, where she was a student of Stephen Hartman.